This week, we've been following the antics of our favorite MMO studios as they ply their wares at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Neverwinter? Check. Guild Wars 2? Check. RIFT's Storm Legion? Yup. World of Warcraft? All the pandas you can handle. PlanetSide 2? Smedleaks cannot be stopped! Heck, The Secret World went all the way to Germany to reveal the upcoming New York raid. And perhaps most intriguing of all is Final Fantasy XIV, whose devs announced that the game's servers will be shut down ahead of the impending A Realm Reborn relaunch.
Enjoy the rest of the week's top MMO stories past the cut!
- Star Wars: The Old Republic previews new planet, challenge, species
- Copernicus would have been F2P
- A reflective festival launches for Guild Wars
- Rumor: EA putting itself up for sale
- The (F2P) future of The Secret World
- World of Warcraft schedules big patch for Guild Wars 2's launch day
- Firefall scoops up dozens of former BioWare and 38 Studios devs
- Diablo III reveals patch 1.0.4 class updates
- The top 10 stock fantasy enemies from lamest to coolest
- BioWare teases SWTOR world event with news video
- Trion offering free expansion, mount, and title with yearly RIFT sub purchase
- Why we play Vindictus
- Guild Wars 2 makes its first soundtrack single available on iTunes
- F2P Vanguard made official with trailer and more details
- Exclusive: World of Warplanes reveals Japanese carrier fighter aircraft
- First impressions of RIFT from returning players
- Guild Wars 2 clarifies guesting, world transfers, and regions
- The Secret World's August update adding new weapon, abilities, missions
- All SWTOR classes are useful in Huttball
- Shadowrun Online fundraiser comes down to the wire
- World of Tanks was rejected by publishers as 'cheap Asian stuff'
- New fan videos detail racial armor in Guild Wars 2
- RIFT is breaking down faction walls and normalizing PvP in 1.10
- Designer says American gamers can't handle failure
- Guild Wars 2's final countdown to launch
