We got you started in Diablo III this week with our best tips, a guide for MMO players, details on the starter edition, videos, warm fuzzies, and friendly rivalries. Hopefully, that gave you plenty to read during all of the downtime. Ouch!
Meanwhile, gamers everywhere looked on as the 38 Studios ship continued to founder. Early in the week, we learned that the studio might default on its state loan, leaving the debt to Rhode Island taxpayers. A few emergency meetings later, 38 Studios' employees' paychecks are going unpaid and the state governor is throwing out release dates for the seemingly doomed MMO Project Copernicus. But hey, flythrough video, right?
More of the week's top MMO stories are prepped for your eyes after the cut.
- GameStop earnings call adds to Guild Wars 2 release date speculation
- The Elder Scrolls Online will have a '100% solo' personal story
- Hands-on with The Secret World's mission system
- The truth about lockboxes
- Reserve your Guild Wars 2 character name today
- SWTOR's James Ohlen shares the formula behind PvP nerfs
- Why we play RIFT
- Two of the three Elder Scrolls Online factions in profile
- Age of Conan turns four, taps SWG for crafting inspiration
- Stargate Worlds is not resting in peace as a new lawsuit emerges
- RIFT introduces three-faction PvP with Conquest
- Player's real-life journey honored in Guild Wars 2
- Frogster talks TERA Elin censorship
- Lord of the Rings Online releases Update 7: Shades of the Past
- Five ways LotRO should be streamlined
- Translating Elder Scrolls Online dev speak
- Hands-on with The Secret World's combat system
- BioWare preps another SWTOR free Weekend Pass
- The Game Archaeologist unearths Dark Sun Online
- Amazon offers special limited-time deals on TERA and RIFT
- Warhammer's 1.4.6 patch brings RvR and scenario changes
- We saw the wilds of Salem (and lived to tell about it)
