It's surely no coincidence that ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 2's launch date on the eve of The Secret World's pre-purchase launch, but Funcom has in fact rolled out the game's headstart, seemingly undaunted. We'll be releasing our new column as well as impressions and guides of the studio's conspiracy-themed MMO next week when it launches officially to the rest of the world, but for now, enjoy our TSW community guide and a rundown of this week's top MMO stories, which are conveniently awaiting you and your tinfoil hats past the break.
- Religious group calls for removal of Hindu deities from Hi-Rez's SMITE
- Pony up $25 for TERA's new Night Mare mount
- Nine years of Star Wars Galaxies
- Seeing the sights in City of Steam
- CCP addresses EVE faction warfare exploit
- SWTOR's 1.3 Allies patch goes live
- PlanetSide 2 producer's letter teases beta plans, PlanetSide promotion
- SOE discusses its F2P philosophy and EverQuest Next silence
- Eric Flannum talks Guild Wars 2 mechanics
- What if World of Warcraft had never happened?
- Another LEGO MMO springs up, this time from Funcom
- Final Fantasy XI is the most profitable game in the franchise
- Blade & Soul takes over the top spot in Korea, dethroning Diablo III
- Dungeons and Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark goes live
- CCP says it's 'deeply wrong' to assume that repetition is the way forward
- From zero to Storm Legion in a summer of RIFT
- The death of the AAA MMO
- Age of Empires Online adopts a truly free business model
- Firefall hits 500k member milestone, reveals system requirements
- The coziest places in free-to-play
