From the UO.com website: "To celebrate our 9th year of adventure and fantasy in the longest continuously running MMORPG in history, we’ve put together a special edition boxed collection that will mark our anniversary in style. It ships October 31st and will be available at a software retailer near you on November 2nd for $19.99. We’ve crafted exotic new housing sets, have a quartet of personal attendants awaiting your command and are making available more than 50 items marking the different ages of Ultima Online."

If you are interested, check out the 9th Annyversary Collection website here .

We want to point out this new Gamespot article with updated impressions about Nightfall, the incoming Guild Wars expansion.

"The two new professions in Nightfall are best described as holy warriors, of a sort. Strain said that the idea behind the new professions is that they offer a different kind of gameplay experience from existing professions. So, with the paragon, the idea is that you play more as a battle commander, standing off in a fight and supporting the troops with powerful abilities. The dervish, on the other hand, is a dual-wielding whirlwind of a warrior that can also take the form of the five known gods in the game. Each profession has 75 skills to unlock and select from, but how many you've unlocked isn't the key. What really matters is that you can have a "deck" of only eight skills at a time, which levels the playing field because then it becomes more a game of strategy." 

The free to play french MMOPRG Dofus has released a new game extension named The Riders of the Dragoturkey. The Riders of the Dragoturkey introduces paddocks in which you can breed your Dragoturkeys that you can later use as mounts, the handyman profession, the new area of The Koalak Mountain, new arenas and much more.

Not happy enough to have copied the talent system  from World of Warcraft, now Star Wars Galaxy is proud to announce the copy of the honor rankings system, renamed Galactic Civil War ranks and rewards.
Here is the description of this innovative feature

How the teaming up between Cryptic and Microsoft will affect City of Heroes/Villains and what is planned for the next two issues is explained in this developer letter from Positron. Enjoy!

No, we don't have it yet, but a Blizzard employee confirmed on the official forums that The Burning Crusade release is still expected in the fourth quarter of 2006 "We are still saying it will be Q4 of 2006 at this point with no specific date to give yet. We're doing just fine. Don't you worry your pretty little head! ;)".

Star Wars Galaxy Chapter 3 finally introduces the completely new smuggling system together with new smuggling abilities, PvE and PvP missions and a updated Galactic Civil War rewards.

Cryptic Studios, developers of City of Heroes and City of Villains, will develop Marvel Universe Online with Marvel Entertainment and Microsoft Game Studios.

OGRank.com is looking for volunteers to cover the positions of Editor and News Reporter. If you love MMORPGs and are usually hunting for fresh news, or if you are particularly good in one MMORPG and would like to share you guides with the community, you are welcome to apply and join our team !

During an upgrade process involving part of our website and forum code we had to temporarily take down our polls. We are doing our best to put them to work again as

fast as possible. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Patch 1.12.1 is being applied now on european and american World of Wacraft servers, changing the cost of mounts and the purpose of the riding skill.

World of Warcraft, 25th September 2006. Players are opening GM tickets to complain about the one hour long queues to enter the game only to get an answer very similar to "We are aware of the problem. Rest assured that we are doing our best to solve it as fast as possible. Anything else I can help you with?"