How many skillspoints do you need in EVE to be competitive? And to start PvP? This is probably the most common questions that EVE players and wannabe do. In a recent Dev blog, Oveur covered the matter querying the players population from the game server. The results are interesting.

Thousands of South Koreans names and identity numbers have been registered to play Lineage 2 without the knowledge of the interested persons. This has been done with the purpose of using the first 3 free game days offered at the time of activation of a new account.

We finally know what the murlocs are and where do they come from.

Out of the chorus voice from Gamasutra with an article disccussing the bad designs of World of Warcraft. "Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft has over 5 million subscribers worldwide, as of this writing. It's the most successful massively multiplayer game on Earth right now. This well-crafted game has put other games in its genre to shame. Blizzard is a great company, and I might even end up there some day, though this article probably rules out that possibility."

The long awaited new EVE game cluster is up and running. A small patch is necessary to let the client point to the right IP address. Forums are back online also.

A new Planetside version is up on the Test Center. Big revision of the user interface and a few more changes in it.

We understand from Slashdot that Gamasutra has an article on the development of the visual look for Star Trek Online. Some nice screenshots of the work in progress are also shown.

The Staff of World of Warcraft prepared this massive guide on how to use the ingame chat. The question is: Will anybody ever read or use it?

Recently Dark Age of Camelot players were reporting the disappearing of items from inventories.  Sanya Thomas is luckly clarifying that: "This is a display issue, and your items are still there. The client is simply not displaying them to you. Most of the items that “disappear” are in the Bags 4 and 5 of the inventory (the bottom two bags), and the last pages of each vault type."