Codemasters has announced another add on download for Archlord, and it is free. Click read more for the full info.

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Tuesday, 19th August (2:00pm GMT) – Codemasters Online are pleased to reveal that their highly popular, free MMORPG ArchLord has gone live with a new expansion available now free of charge to all new and existing players.

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SAN DIEGO, CA – August 21, 2008 – mmolecule, Inc., a web-based game services company, today launched its Stargate Worlds Beta Key Giveaway for mmolecule members and Stargate Worlds Commands. mmolecule will conduct a random drawing to award 200 closed beta keys for Stargate Worlds, one of the most anticipated MMOs to be released in 2009.

The Chronicles of Spellborn team has succeeded in finding a publisher for their MMO here in the USA. Acclaim will be handling the distribution duties from no on. Click read more for the full info.

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Frogster and the Dutch developer Spellborn are pleased to announce Acclaim Games as US publisher for The Chronicles of Spellborn. The renowned and tradition-steeped American company lead by industry veterans Howard Marks and David Perry has licensed the fantasy MMORPG as their focus title. Acclaim already has almost seven million registered users within their portfolio of currently five online games and is committed to start a large-scale marketing campaign until its launch in late 2008. Acclaim will give North American players a free-to-play zone while subscribers will be able to explore the entire virtual world.

It seems there is a growing number of unhappy Blizzcon/WWI/Dell Beta Club members who were promised beta keys for the WotLK beta in the first wave, and have still not received them. From that information we have been told, a wave of invites went out on the 22nd of July, which included the majority of all the people that had registered their Blizzcon keys (but not all of them).

Jack Emmert, Cryptic Chief Creative Officer, spoke with the AP about the upcoming Star Terk Online, now that the game has been pushed into the forefront by the developer. Players will start the game as a captain of a small Starfleet or Klingon Empire ship. Players can then customize their characters based on known, existing races, or can even create entirely new races. Sounds promising!

Cryptic will be unveiling the new ST Online game at the ST Convention in Las Vegas. On top of this, they have apparently gotten Nimoy himself to present the new title. It is not clear if Nimoy will play any other part in the game's creation. The ST Convention kicked off yesterday, so head on over to the official site for more info.

As if there were not enough players in the juggernaut World of Warcraft, Blizzard has now begun a "Recruit a Friend" campaign. If a player can successfully convince a friend to sign up and play, they will be rewarded with a free mount, faster XP accumulation, and other rewards. Another benefit of the RaF program is that buddies will be able to summon each other from anywhere in the world, and you can grant your friend one free level as well. Blizzard is getting greedy, it seems -- they not only want the sons and daughters playing, but it sounds like they want the parents and grandparents playing too!

The struggling MMO Fury has finally capitulated to the truth, and decided to shut down operations. It is always sad to see an MMO go, but the simple fact is, with the WoW juggernaut taking up most of the world's players, there are just not enough MMO fans to go around anymore. In the good old days, players could fill up as many MMO games as came on the scene. These days, though, players not only want more, but the simple fact is when you already play one MMO seriously (WoW), you are not going to start another.

NCSoft has revealed their new game, it is called Blade & Soul, and it is a new MMO (of course), inspired by martial arts. The game is from the creators of Lineage II, one of the top teams over there at NC, so we are in for a treat. You can check out the trailer that includes gameplay over at EurogamerTV. It looks pretty graphically impressive for an MMO, wow.

Jeff Kaplan, lead designer of Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, revealed that the MMORPG’s forthcoming achievement system will eventually contribute to an account holder’s “Blizzard Level,” a Gamerscore-like system which collects points from the developer’s other titles. All three of the highly anticipated upcoming Blizzard games will be part of this cross-game point tracking.