Even in this age of microtransactions and mini-updates, the classic MMO expansion refuses to die, and this week Trion Worlds lengthened the lifespan of that tried-and-true content-delivery method with its announcement of RIFT's upcoming expansion, Storm Legion. In it, players will find themselves racing to level 60, dabbling in housing, donning capes, sampling new souls, rambling across new continents, and dipping into -- wait for it -- story-driven quest lines.
Jump past the break for the rest of this week's top MMO stories.
- The top 10 worst MMO launches of all time
- The Elder Scrolls Online designers talk combat and PvP in a new video
- Defiance will launch in April 2013; check out the E3 trailer
- SWTOR developers detail free trials and transfers and responds to layoffs; we detail BioWare's PR nightmare
- Korean government raids Blizzard over alleged Diablo III wrongdoing
- Former 38 Studios employees defend Curt Schilling
- Schilling speaks out on 38 Studios debacle and posts new Copernicus images
- The Elder Scrolls Online embraces solo story, traditional MMO format
- ZeniMax devs are 'unapologetic' about making Elder Scrolls MMO
- Jagex is closing down browser-based 8Realms
- The next Guild Wars 2 beta weekend is coming June 8th
- Games-as-a-service sucks for the consumer
- SOEmote tech brings live facial expressions and voice to EQII avatars
- A new DUST 514 dev diary talks fittings and lore
- Our Guild Wars 2 WvW primer
- Elder Scrolls Online quests and public dungeons
- Why we play RuneScape
- Funcom kicks off new Secret World ARG with a strange video
- Leeroy Jenkins gets his own movie
- Guild Wars 2 dev shows off his company pride with a dragon tattoo
