Funcom, developers of the long-running Anarchy Online, a science-fiction online massive multiplayer, have announced that the game will remain free to play until 2008. Continuing with their model of offering free subscription accounts for older expansions, but charging $9.99 monthly for the latest version of the game, Anarchy Online will now include the Notim expansion pack within their free subscriptions.

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Green Monster Games, a new startup game developer from famous Everquest player and Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, comic icon Todd McFarlane and best-selling author R.A. Salvatore are currently hiring a lead programmer with Gamebryo experience to join in developing a massive multiplayer title. With a powerhouse art and creative team like Salvatore and Todd McFarlane as directors this is kind of exciting, with both having vast experience in creating extremely stylish, in-depth worlds. More information as it becomes available.

Official quote from Green Monster Games after the jump..

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EVE Online developer CCP Games has updated the information for the EVE Online Fan Fest 2006, a yearly festival in Iceland where fans are allowed to meet, greet and party with EVE’s developers and other fans from around the world. Among presentations and roundtables where the devs showcase the upcoming changes coming for the rapidly growing MMORPG, there is also a feedback session, where members of the EVE team from all disciplines address questions and feedback from players on subjects such as PvP, agent missions (PvE), the future of EVE (expansions, etc), and many other elements involved with the game. One particularly neat event is a developer PvP match, where the QA team takes on the development team in a massive PvP grudge match. We’re of course on QA’s side.

EVE Online’s Fan Fest 2006 takes place in Reykjavik Iceland, November 9th through the 11th with passes, flight and hotel packages available through the EVE Online web store.

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There is still hope for Star Wars Galaxies, somewhere. With the upcoming release of the Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures, Sony and LucasArts are trying to shore up interest in the once massively popular MMORPG by offering a 14 day free trial to new users (and presumably to the scores of people who left). Available now, I for one will be checking out some of the changes that are happening throughout the game, which I haven’t played since it began years ago and maybe see if I can live out my dream of being a jedi master.

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Yes Auto Assault is still going and from what we hear it’s not actually as bad as all the night elf lovers have made it seem. NetDevil are a good bunch and they seem to be working their asses off to try and fix up some of the early problems which plagued the release of AA so we’re more than happy to see them still fighting the good fight. Recently it was revealed at the Auto Assault forums that Update 3 for AA is currently going through the internal QA process and should address quite a few issues some of the critics have been lobbing their way, including some much needed balancing, clan name support and new instances.

Read a list of upcoming changes to Auto Assault after the jump..

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