If you’ve wondered whether the developers on your favorite game ever read their own forums, you’re not alone.

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EQII’s Xelgad reads forums, talks class balance
If you’ve wondered whether the developers on your favorite game ever read their own forums, you’re not alone.

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EQII’s Xelgad reads forums, talks class balance
If you like giant robots, PvP , and a sandbox environment, you’ve no doubt been following the development of Perpetuum with no small amount of interest. After all, the upcoming game includes all of those, along with some stunning graphics and deformable terrain to help keep players invested. The game is currently in the midst of closed beta testing, and is rolling out new features and improvements, especially with the most recent patch .

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Perpetuum launches major patch, approaches open beta
Gamigo and Reakktor Media made an announcement this morning that many fans have been looking forward to: Black Prophecy is entering closed beta. We’ve been following this game with interest here at Massively, enjoying a hands-on look as well as a series of Q&A sessions with the developers

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Black Prophecy enters closed beta
Filed under: Super-hero , Events, real-world , Interviews , News items , DC Universe Online If you’re a fan of the upcoming DC Universe Online and wish there were ways to be more directly heard by the developers — or to hear more directly from the developers — your ship has just come in.

We got to play a very early build of Codemasters’ latest Formula One game and hear about the publisher’s plans for the series. The Formula One season may already be underway, but gamers have another six months to wait before they can jump in this year’s cars themselves. Thankfully, Codemasters has been hard at work on this game since the publisher acquired the gaming rights to the F1 World Championship and showed off the game for the first time at an event in London yesterday

Filed under: MMO industry , News items The arena of social gaming is a hotly contested one, with two equally enthusiastic schools of thought on whether or not they even count as MMOs.

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Flash Games Summit looks at social gaming
Before Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson launched the successful photo site Flickr , they tried their hands at MMO design.

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Flickr co-founders giving MMO design a second try
If you were one of the people lucky enough to get into one of our two Aika beta key giveaways, you’ve probably been enjoying the chance to see what the most recently announced title from gPotato has to offer. The promise of large-scale PvP always gets people excited, after all, and it doesn’t hurt that the game has a very polished and stylish look to it

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Aika launches PvP Domination tournament in closed beta
For the holidays, Champions Online presented their fans with an especially nice surprise: a gigantic, slavering teddy bear bent on the destruction of…well, everything.

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Champions Online: Did you enjoy Attack of the Misfit Toys?