Added Global Agenda to the list. Its a persistent world with UT like gameplay and graphics but with a class system.

http://www.globalagendagame.com/Home.html

Added The Secret World to the list.

http://www.darkdaysarecoming.com/ = Webpage (teaser)
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47571.html = Debut trailer

I'm still interested in The Secret World, Funcom or not. Check this interesting preview on Eurogamer

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-s ... ld-preview

The first few months of 2009 have begun to resemble a graveyard for massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

At the end of January, Namco Bandai and Flagship Studios' first-person-shooter role-playing hybrid Hellgate: London was taken offline. The following month, NCsoft turned the lights out on Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. Now, one more MMOG is in its death throes, as Ubisoft has announced that its fantasy online RPG Shadowbane will shut down on May 1.


"We come to you now with regret and sadness, but also happiness and pride," a Ubisoft representative wrote on the game's official Web site. "Regret and sadness that it has finally come to this and as of May 1, 2009, the Shadowbane servers will be powered down once and for all. Yet happiness that it lasted so very long, and pride to be able to stand before such a passionate community to thank you for your undying support and unwavering loyalty to Shadowbane."

Based heavily on player-versus-player online gaming, Shadowbane launched to mostly positive reviews in March 2003. After signing on to publish the title in 2001, Ubisoft eventually purchased the game's license and developer Wolfpack Studios. However, in 2006, shortly after revealing that Shadowbane would become a free-to-play, ad-supported venture, Ubisoft announced plans to close Wolfpack.

Many members of the defunct Wolfpack went on to form Stray Bullet Games, which was contracted by Ubisoft to continue supporting Shadowbane. The independent studio is currently at work on a new MMOG, rumored to be in development for the Nintendo Wii.
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Heh i was in the closed beta of shadowbane and played it for a while. The game had some of the best ideas of that time which unfortunately never took of. It also featured vertical movement which was fairly new feature to mmo genre.

Shadowbane is dead, all hail Shadowbane.

Yea, I'm not surprised. There's a glut of MMOs. Way too many and they're all very, very similar. The standouts (EVE online comes to mind) still do fine. I think the number of people that want to play MMOs is just limited.

Oh well. I just hope the KOTOR MMO is worth a damn.

That and everyone's already playing WoW. Or rather, sinking time and money in it.

I find the problem is they're all too... the same. So you might as well play WoW (or whichever game you're already high level in). Whilst it may not be a huge number, there are plenty of players wanting to play something different, hence UO is still going, Darkfall had 300,000 people following it before release (no clue what stats it has now or anything) and even something as supposedly doomed as Horizons (now Istaria) has managed to last nearly 5 years.

On a different topic, apparently there is now available a classic board game with dice set in the Eve universe, details:

EVE: Conquests Assume the role of the four major factions and prove their superiority by means of galactic domination.

-A fold-out board with a map of the EVE universe, the political landscape and the innovative "Action Wheel" that keeps track of players' activities
-4 Different factions from which to choose.
-Almost 400 sculpted game pieces, high quality poker-sized chips, resource tokens, outposts and headquarters.
-63 Region cards that form the political landscape, making every game unique.
-99 Cards.
-30 Custom designed combat dice and 2 dice pouches.

That's bizarre. I can't say I enjoy board games. They're so limited compared to their electronic brethren.

Footage on Star Wars: The Old Republic
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48839.html

nice....looking forward to that game very much. It'll probably be the next MMO I play.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/blogs/side ... op;title;6
Eve Online turns 6. Ranked 4th as most popular subscription game in terms of spending. Peak concurrent user record at 53,850 users playing in the same realm at the same time.

Earthrise gameplay.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/user ... 15532.html

Star Trek Online guided tour.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/startrek ... ews&page=1

People are going to be so pissed off when the game fails to meet their expectations.

I think that's going to be one of the most lame MMOs of all time. The only people that'll play it are hard core Star Trek geeks, and they'll be mad because it conflicts with season 3, episode 4 of blah blah blah.

Unless the new Star Trek film continues to be a bit hit and the MMO comes out around the same time as the next Star Trek film. In which case a crap load of people will play it for a couple months, then get bored and quit.