To everyone but legal scholars and fanboys, the ongoing NCsoft/TERA copyright duel probably seems beyond bizarre, but the latest bout was conducted this week through En Masse's bellicose official statements in response to media and fan concern over recent South Korean court proceedings, which confirmed the convictions of former Lineage 3 developers accused of taking assets and trade secrets to Bluehole Studios. Nevertheless, seemingly unhindered for the moment, TERA's launch marches onward with an open beta weekend, launch trailer, and prologue cinematic.
Read on for this week's other top MMO stories.
- Guild Wars 2 announces first beta weekend, briefs players
- Diablo III roars into an open beta weekend
- Analyst says SWTOR subs peaked at 1.7 million, now declining
- Dissecting Aion Ascension and 3.0 update
- CCP shows off seven years of DUST 514 skill training
- PlanetSide 2 fan trailer delivers fan service
- Star Wars: The Old Republic hosting a weekend trial while plague expands
- Funcom temporarily takes The Secret World Facebook tie-in offline
- City of Heroes previews upcoming Mecha Armor
- The top 10 free-to-play holdouts
- Simplicity and complexity in Guild Wars 2
- EVE Online streamlines the process of figuring out who's crippling your ship
- Why we play Star Trek Online
- Investigating Lord of the Ring's Online's fifth anniversary events
- The curious case of Vanguard
- The importance of those first moments in a game
- Final Fantasy XIV beckons former players with welcome back campaigns
- Our outline of SWTOR's first live event, Outbreak
- Diablo III punches things up with a new Monk video and the end of beta
- What makes a guild leader miserable?
- MechWarrior Online devs field 'Mech customization queries
