Free-to-play MMORTS Soul Master enters open beta today, Thursday, August 12. 3 latest wallpapers are updated on its official site. The publisher has given much thought to players and prepared a special size wallpaper for Iphone user.

Recently, Korea-based Actoz Soft has announced that its latest MMORPG Wild Planet will be performing an unrestricted closed beta test from August 13th. It is reported that a male character has been changed into a female one, the level cap has been raised to Level 50 and three new game maps have been added in this CBT.

My name is Svetlana, I'm 23 year old and live in Germany (so, excuse my grammer faults). I discovered the cosplay szene in 2003, but only in 2006 I found a real desire in it. So my Druid Tier 1 from World of Warcraft costume was the first challenge. I learned a lot from this project and started with further World of Warcraft Tier sets. Druid Tier 3, Tier 6 and Tier 8 followed. The last one is my actual work.

Rock Hippo Productions Ltd's toy-style MMOTPS MicroVolts begins its first closed beta test today, August 12th 2010. Now the CBT client is available to download at the official site. Everyone who has gotten a key for the closed beta phase just gets prepared for the moment that CBT server opens.

T3 entertaiment and Hanbitsoft together with Redbana Philippines announce that players can apply for AIKA Global closed beta keys on the global Aika official site now. There are totally 5,000 keys to be sent out. Aika will be a free-to-play MMORPG and scheduled to kick off the closed beta on August 20th.

Aeria Games just signed the deal with Japanese developer KOEI to bring the F2P hack-and-slash MMO Dynasty Warriors Online to North America and Europe. Now the beta sign-up has begun, you can go to the official site and click the button to get a beta key. The official hasn't told the date for beta yet.

Leading online game publisher, GamesCampus.com (www.GamesCampus.com), announced that its genre-bending, free-to-play MMORTS, Soul Master will enter open beta today, Thursday, August 12. Developed by NPluto, Soul Master is an addictive new game that takes the innovation behind customizable "Hero" units in the RTS genre to a whole new level by allowing players to have complete MMORPG-style control over their characters.

Gamania Digital Entertainment's brand new MMORPG Hero: 108 Online has been open to the public for nearly a month now. They have upgraded the official website of the game, and add some new screenshots into their photo gallery.

At 9:45 p.m. on August 9 Beijing Time (i.e. August 9 8:45 a.m. EST), WoW's publisher in Mainland, China – NetEase announced on its official site that WoW: WotLK had passed the examination of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. It's said that the expansion's client will be made available for players to download on August 17.

Maestia Online, developed by Roc Works and published by SevenOne Intermedia & BigPoint in Europe, announced the first closed beta test will start from Aug. 18th, 2010.

So far, some MMO games with subscription, such as EverQuest II, Dungeons & Dragons Online, The Lord of the Rings Online, Global Agenda, and Alganon, are now free-to-play or microtransation model instead of subscriptions. Strategy Analytics says that the subscription model in traditional western MMORPG has lost traction and growth momentum.

After a frustrating time waitng for the game to release it's doors to players at around 2:30PM server time. Thankfully it's the same timezone as me and I had to go to the dentist anyways so when I got back it was jacked up and ready to go.Vindictus has a mouse or keyboard option

Being an otaku is pretty fun, but on a serious level many of the bad habits of an otaku can lead to an early grave. Leading a sedentary lifestyle, relying on instant meals, and drinking copious amounts of soda are just a few examples of bad otaku habits that will lead to heart disease and diabetes.

Anime-style DIVINA will be launching its closed beta test in Japan soon. The Double Cast (double class) system is one of the game's features. Below is a detailed introduction to its five playable classes.

SOE has announced the latest EverQuest II expansion Destiny of Velious. Now they release the first trailer in SOE Fan Faire. Although most of the scenes are about the new areas and instances, you can find the flying mount in the last few seconds. Flying mount is obviously the most important feature in the new expansion, but aerial combat is not included in Destiny of Velious. What's more, Othmir will remain an unplayable race. Check out the new contents below.

According to an interview related to Activision's sales in the second quarter, The CFO of Activision Thomas Tippl said World of Warcraft: Cataclysm's release date would be 2010 for sure.

Lately THQICE has been growing through a lot of troubles and the mmo dragonica, has been going down hill, no forum mods, gms or any information that is going on. Dragonica US. Players has hit the point where they couldn't take waiting, so some started leaving and moving to iah. After a long wait THQICE has finally gave us a notice that Dragonica US will be reciving a new publisher August 31st. To read more about it check out this link.

If you love MMOs you'll want to check out Guild Wars 2 and if you hate MMOs you'll really want to check out Guild Wars 2. That's ArenaNet's founder Mike O'Brien's ambitious words in the latest GW2 video. Not only Mike O'Brien, several key members of ArenaNet also make the similar manifesto, promising you Guild Wars 2 will change the MMO world. I bet you've been tired of hearing such kind of words and you'd like some gaming footages, some battle scenes. You'll get what you want in the trailer below.

To offer better game services in the overseas markets, NCsoft has decided to set up an overseas development team for its online game Aion. The team is expected to collect overseas players' opinions and suggestions, so as to offer different operation services in different countries.

Many people play MMOs in stages: they'll play one until they get tired of it, then move on to another. Luckily, there are many different kinds of MMOs out there, from the simplest to the most intricate and complex. Because of this, many people go through a series of MMOs as they grow up.