SOE decided to rais the price for the All Access subscription from 21.99$ per month to 24.99 per month. SOE All Access is a particular subscription that lets you play Everquest, Everquest 2, Planetside, The Matrix Online and Star Wars Galaxies plus some more free special content.

Etherea: Dark Genesis sent the forth issue of their newsletter. The development has gone forth in the last weeks and the alpha launch is expected for this June.
If you want to know more about the game check our previous interview with the developers , or just read further for the text of the newsletter.

This seems like the last round of testing before deploying officially version 1.23 for WWII Online. This patch will introduce a spawn delay to balance the sides better, improved graphical model for infantry, Unmanned Mobile Spawns, persisten smoke granades (don't ask me) and more. Here are the full notes:

The thirs PortalsNetwork contest is online. To partecipate you have to register to their forum and submit your partecipation through a form. one winner will receive 1 year of gametime for his favourite MMORPG. For more informations check the contest page .

A too high priced but fun MMOG, this is what Yahoo Games reviewer Mike Smith thinks about Auto Assault.

In the poll we proposed to our readers last month, at the question "AFK Macroing: is it cheating or not?" 61.1% answered "Yes".
Following the suggestion of one of you, we proposed a second poll on the topic: If somebody would show you how to macro, would you do it? Almost 60% ansered yes.
Next question could be, is AFK macroing like cheating also when the macroer is you? :)

Eric Heimburg, senior systems designer on Star Trek Online, talks about the game economy in a recent dev blog. "First off, will the game have an economy? We've heard the community ask this question several times, and the answer is yes. The Federation has a thriving economy, with major financial institutions (such as the Bank of Bolias) keeping trade running smoothly".

Minions of Mirth received an important update today. The version has been nicknamed Poisonous Edition since it introduces 50 new poisons, but players will find also a lot of new class specific equipment, the beginning of an Epic quest togheter with the usual fixes and tweaks.

Battleground Europe, or World War II Online for the old players, begins its 30th campaign. The last one was won by the Axis.