World's most popular MMORPG just got better! World of Warcraft just got a new patch, jumping right to version 3.0.8. So, what are we going to get from this brand new WoW patch? Ready or not, here's the essential right out of that (very, very, very) long list of changes...

First of all, the most outstanding feature is that, once you installed the WoW patch 3.08, you can easily create a Death Knight character in any realm as long as you're level 55 or higher.
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A funny change - and I must confess I don't think this is a brilliant change at all - is that racial restrictions have been removed when using mounts, so now you can laugh your heart out at Night Elves riding mechanostriders. I don't even dare to think about the looks of a Tauren riding a... you name it, I already die laughing here!

Those into spell casting may not enjoy hearing that all the Silence effect spells lost a bit of their power now, and it doesn't stop here. This, my friends, is only the beginning...

...so if you want to waste a lot of time reading about the changes in the latest WoW patch instead of actually playing the game, go ahead - knock yourself out - the official Wow patch page is waiting!

One of the most frustrating feelings you could end up facing in your life is that "what could have been if," and that's exactly what we're going to talk about today - Age of Conan, barbarian funeral. No, this is not a new game, but the outcome that seems closer than ever for a MMORPG that millions of gamers expected to be much more than it managed to become...

The fact that Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures could become available for Xbox 360 doesn't push aside the cruel reality that our barbarian MMORPG here may be dying, and the latest events show exactly that - Age of Conan, barbarian funeral, as the title says, and here's exactly why...
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According to Funcom, during this week, the total number of servers for Age of Conan will be sent right down to the floor, from 49 to only 18, with the biggest losses expected to strike North America and Oceania. In those 2 areas, 16 servers will be closed, leaving only 6 up & running, while Europe will have twice as many still available, to handle all the all major language regions equally.

The official version of the story is that the move will make your experience better, with busier, more enjoyable worlds, but we all know what's the truth behind this, right?

Apart from World of Warcraft, one of the massive multiplayer online games I try to stay away from is EVE Online, and the fact is that, while I enjoyed playing a trial of WoW for a few hours, and then never turned back to it, I won't be able to do the same with EVE Online. If you want to ask why, then just let me tell you I loved Star Trek and Mass Effect. That should be enough, I guess. Now, let's get to the EVE Online 14 day trial, shall we?

Since reading press releases is not a hobby of mine, I guess it's not yours either. Nevertheless, I sacrificed myself and got the most interesting part of the latest EVE Online press release out for you, so take your time to check the excerpt below. After all, it comes with a EVE Online 14 day trial as a "bonus," remember!

"CCP, one of the world’s leading independent game developers, today announced the launch of the tenth free expansion for EVE Online, its popular science-fiction massively multi-player online game (MMOG). EVE Online: Apocrypha is the most ambitious EVE expansion in the game's over five year history and it coincides with the March 10th, 2009 release of EVE Online as a boxed product through a partnership with Atari.
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In addition, we are offering an entirely reworked New Player Experience for those joining (or rejoining) the game – giving them better insight into how to thrive in a truly limitless universe. We’ve already launched EVElopedia—a great repository for information on all things EVE where our players are also building their own living history of the previous five years of Alliance warfare, political intrigue and nostalgic recollection
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“Just this past week we broke our concurrent user record with 45,186 people flying unbound in the same game world at the same time—a huge percentage of our quarter of a million current subscribers and a true testament to EVE in our sixth year of operation,” said EVE Online Senior Producer Torfi Frans Olafsson. “Today is an unprecedented time to start playing, as you can get ahead of the curve before Apocrypha releases in stores and our hard work hits the server cluster. It’ll be easier than ever to get ‘lost in the wormhole’ that is EVE with what we have planned for the future of our expanding universe.”"

Hell yeah, we're getting EVE Online as a retail package for the first time! Finally!!! To grab your own EVE Online 14 day trial, just go to the official website and sign up for your free trial account. That's it, people, game on!