MMO Week in Review: Trekking through Neverwinter

At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. If you missed a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week, you've come to the right post.

Cryptic launched the first of Neverwinter's beta periods this weekend, ushering in the press plus anyone who ponied up $200 $60 for the highest-end founder's pack. The studio also unveiled the Devoted Cleric class and cinematic trailer. Massively was on hand to tour the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons dungeon-crawler; we delivered a hands-on with character creation, detailed videos of the classes and races available in the current testing phase, and a preview of the Cloak Tower dungeon. If your mind's still not made up, there's also our three-hour livestream of the festivities.

Read on for a look at the rest of this week's top MMO stories.

	Guild Wars 2's Flame and Frost: The Gathering Storm coming February 26
	Guild Wars 2 WvW changes delayed until March
	Hands-on with GW2's Flame and Frost

	BioWare details SWTOR's Galactic Reputation system
	What would you like added to SWTOR's cash shop?

	WildStar reveals 2013 launch window, ambitious plans to make MMOs fun again
	The 'biggest game on the planet': WildStar's boundless ambition
	You can't take the sky from me: WildStar's Exiles
	Slap a rocket on a pig: WildStar's modding and PGC community

	RvR Unchained: Mark Jacobs returns to Camelot
	Camelot Unchained's Jacobs: 'This is the wrong time to be safe'

	World of Warcraft subs drop to 9.6 million
	NCsoft earnings report shows healthy growth
	TERA free-to-play has launched
	What we want to see in EverQuest Next
	LotRO goes to the Lonely Mountain: Update 10 raid preview
	Aion adopts lockboxes
	Initial DayZ video blog shows new stand-alone footage
	A second look at RIFT's Storm Legion expansion
	Why we play Star Wars: The Old Republic
	Star Citizen's death mechanics hope to create 'a sense of mortality and history'
	Goodbye Scott, hello RIFT 2.2
	EVE Online steels players for summer changes
	Mounting a campaign for vehicles in The Secret World

And from our sister site, WoW Insider...

	The beginner's guide to roleplay-appropriate names in WoW
	Ol' Grumpy and the dumbing down debate
	What can WoW and other MMOs teach us about literature and storytelling?
	How to get started with transmogrification and be the most stylish newbie on the block
	All current raids to be nerfed by 10% with Patch 5.2
	Guide to choosing the right style of guild