Crowns of Power has recently released its beta client, which is now available for download after months of preparation and over a year of closed testing. The game is built off of the Torque Engine.

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SocioTown is a browser-based 3D MMO social game that’s now publicly available for play testing. It’s developed by an independent company called Outside the Box Software and is heavily influenced by such games as The Sims and Animal Crossing, but also brings new features to the realm of social and virtual world games.

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A company called Testronic Labs is eventually going to end the need for MMO companies to schedule public stress tests for their games to evaluate their servers. VENUS Blue is the only performance testing tool capable of emulating a massive amount of players, allowing developers to test their MMOs internally.

This is fortunate for fans of MMOs who follow upcoming games, as it should cut developmental delays, issues and what not by a considerable amount, as optimizations can be performed much more efficiently.

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Stratics recently sat down with Fallen Earth lead designer Lee Hammock for their recent writeup and when asked “What makes Fallen Earth different?”, Lee replies with “Imagine building combat robots…” in jest. Despite the full-page run down on the post-apocalyptic MMO, that was about the only piece of new information on the game, provided Lee wasn’t just bluffing.

2Moons has just released its first major update today called Bad Moons Rising. It adds a ton of new areas, dungeons, quests, monsters and items. 2Moons is free to play with the option to purchase items from the in-game shop via microtransactions.

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In the superhero-themed MMORPG, City of Heroes, their latest free expansion titled “Midnight Hour” will improve some aspects of the character creation system. Among the new new features is the ability to analyze the statistic and underlying numbers behind each power, including a display that shows you how each power progresses upon leveling up, as well as how each power adapts to PvP.

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This week’s Age of Conan Friday update features information on PvP and lore. There will be PvP minigames that are supposed to be the MMO equivalent of quick friendly death-matches if players feel like jumping straight into some competitive fun.

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The team at Cryptic Studios answers some player questions in their latest dev blog entry for their upcoming superhero MMO, Champions Online. The company previously developed the CoX (City of Heroes/Villains) series.

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In part two of MMOGamer’s recent interview with Fallen Earth lead designer, Lee Hammock, Lee elaborates on previously known information.

Anyone who follows the development of Fallen Earth should already know how much work is being put in the background story of the game, but after reading this interview, that aspect is really something that Hammock seems to be extremely proud of. Judging from the official fictions that are written and posted on the Fallen Earth forums at least twice a month, the writing team at Icarus studios is highly proficient and have a lot of time to dedicate their craft to the game’s rich history and lore, which is important to the game’s immersion and atmosphere. The storylines and story arcs will definitely attract and satisfy many roleplayers and fans of the game, and perhaps even impress players who couldn’t care less about the story.

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Go can go check out the rest of this week’s MMORPG.com’s exclusive Earthrise screenshots here.

NCSoft is attempting to extend the lives of two of their longer running franchises by launching a pair of promotional sites to aid in the marketing of Guild Wars and Lineage II and introduce them to new players. The two websites are done entirely in Flash and do an excellent job at highlighting the game’s main selling points.

The free-to-play 2D MMORPG, Trickster Online, recently released the second Revolution Episode, new NPCs, a new pet leveling system and more updates.

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Next Thursday on April 3rd, the second closed beta testing of Rohan: Blood Feud will begin and last until the 9th. The game received an M rating from the ESRB, but it wasn’t built around any particular rating during development. They’re actually quite glad that none of the content was compromised in order to receive a lower rating.

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Mythos has an updated website and a newly released update that’s bringing PvP back to the game.

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Warrior Epic is one of the latest free-to-play MMORPGs to hit the massively multiplayer scene, though it’s actually more like an online RPG a la Guild Wars and Hellgate London than a true seamless, persistent universe. According to the FAQ, Warrior Epic’s campaigns are designed to be played cooperatively. You can play the missions solo, or with up to four friends.

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Just a couple days after NCSoft announced that they had licensed Unreal Engine 3 to produce two new MMOs, Bluehole Studio Inc. from Seoul Korea announces today that they have also licensed the engine for a next-gen MMORPG codenamed Project S1.

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The latest QOTW (question of the week) is now up at the Fallen Earth forums.

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As reported earlier by MTV Multiplayer, Take-Two Interactive’s chairman, Strauss Zelnick, has ideas to bring the BioShock and/or Civilization franchises into the MMO realm.

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I finally got around to listening to the entire 56 and a half minute Wife-Aggro.com’s audio interview with Earthrise CEO, Atanas Atanosov and lead designer, Apostol Apostolov from Masthead Studios out of Bulgaria.

They start off by introducing themselves. Atanas is 30 years old, has been a passionate gamer for 20 years and followed the gaming industry since ‘88. He’s a big fan of MMOs and enjoys following the development of new titles.

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Crowns of Power just announced that their beta client will be available to the public on the 31st.

Crowns of Power has been in constant development since 2006 and first went into closed testing in 2007. The game allows open-PvP where criminals/murderers will suffer the most consequences on death, including the dropping of items. It also favors open-ended character progression over the standard cookie-cutter classes and will be free to play.

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