Blizzard has added a feature to their website allowing users to view up to date statistics on some of the many data points contained within the massively massive multiplayer world. The WoW stats allow you to see the most auctioned items (Runecloth), most dangerous NPCs (Drek’Thar), most looted items (Linen Cloth), most created items (Soul Shard), most complete quests (A Threat Within) and the most gathered items (Chopper Ore). Whew. So go forth statistics nerds and bury yourself in gobs and gobs of data related to the game everyone loves to hate.

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Guild Wars has recently entered closed beta in China and has blown away expectations. Even though Guild Wars is being hyped as the most anticipated MMORPGs coming to the Chinese market, NCsoft and China partners The9 impressed many by receiving over 200,000 applicants on the first day of closed beta signups. Hot damn! Closed beta in China begins November 29th, administered by The9 Limited, who also are running WoW China.

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CCP, the makers of the sci-fi MMO EVE Online have announced that they will be merging with White Wolf Publishing, one of the leading creators of traditional RPG franchises in the world. The companies will operate autonomously, but with White Wolf owning some impressively rich worlds such as World of Darkness, it looks as if CCP is positioning themselves to release some interesting new MMOs in the coming future.

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As if the plethora of World of Warcraft community sites, forums, and MySpace pages weren’t enough, a new social networking site has started dedicated to World of Warcraft and it’s players. The site is called Warcraft Social and allows World of Warcraft players to create user profiles, including pictures, create guild groups in order to connect with guild members MySpace-style, among many other Warcraft-specific options. Though this is not an officially supported network, I wonder why more massive multiplayers aren’t offering first party social networks in addition to their other community-building efforts. Forums are so web 1.0 man.

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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.

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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.

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A talented World of Warcraft fan created a very well-made online comic, which covers the lore of World of Craft in comic book style layout. Let’s just hope it stays up long enough for people to enjoy.

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