It is getting hard for the folks over at RF Online and Codemasters to keep up with demand. To this end, they have just opened a second brand new world (server) for players to join. Since the switch to free-play, RF Online membership has skyrocketed. Congrats again, Codemasters.

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Thursday, 8th November (2pm GMT) – Codemasters Online are thrilled to announce the opening of another new world for their hugely popular 100% free MMORPG RF Online. The new world known as “Solus” will open its gates as a surge of new players join the RF Online service.

NCsoft, the MMO juggernaut, has founded a new studio and acquired full ownership of the City of Heroes MMO franchise. There are plans in place to build upon the series, and apparently all current developers who worked on the game are moving over with the acquisition.

Eve Online Trinity, the latest expansion for the sci-fi MMO from CCP Games, will be available starting the first week of December. The patch will conatin, among other things, a huge graphical overhaul for the game, and over 500 ships have been added or completely re-drawn from scratch. The expansion is free, as are all Eve Online expansions.

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Friday 2nd November/...NCsoft® Europe, the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announced today that Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa™, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for the PC where players are thrust into an exciting intergalactic struggle, has launched its commercial service in Europe and North America.

File this in the "things you need to be aware of" department, the SOE MMO players among you:

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Newport University has conducted a very interesting research study decided to use an MMO as their virtual conference space. Which MMO did they use? Well, Second Life, of course, the game that many claim is closest to life here on the real Earth. Click read more for the full info.

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What’s the best way to share research findings internationally in the digital age? Present them to a huge audience of virtual people in a digitally created world that only exists on the Internet.

Codemasters today announced the opening of new RF Online servers to help meet demand. THe player count skyrocketed when the MMO went 100% free to play last week. No surprise there, click read more for the full info.

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Codemasters Online today announced that an all-new world server has been opened for the popular 100% free MMORPG RF Online. The new world “Lumen” opens as demand for the game hits an all time high with thousands of new players joining the service every day since the switch to free-to-play last week.

From SOE:

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