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Audio Visual Enterprises SA and Aventurine SA have announced today that the official release date for their fantasy MMO Darkfall Online will be on January 22nd, 2009. After a development cycle that has spanned almost eight years now, it’s good to know the game will be leaving its current beta stage and entering the real world like a big boy (or girl, [...]

pFiled under: a href=”http://www.massively.com/category/economy/” rel=”tag”Economy/a, a href=”http://www.massively.com/category/mmo-industry/” rel=”tag”MMO industry/a, a href=”http://www.massively.com/category/virtual-worlds/” rel=”tag”Virtual worlds/a/p Although many western MMO gamers profess a distaste for all things RMT, it’s definitely become an aspect of these games and virtual worlds that we’re all aware of to some degree. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it wasn’t so [...]

In a trend that some people love, and other hate, the world governments are starting to alter their tax codes to take into account virtual, in-game transactions. While most of the proposed and already in effect taxes are only triggered when virtual goods are traded for real world cash, some governments are starting to wonder [...]

At Ten Ton Hammer, we like messing with the headlines as much as we like reporting on them. As proof, Loading… today points the way toward the Ten Ton Turnip, our response to faux news publcation The Onion. A big thank you to you, the reader, and to the Ten Ton Hammer team is also [...]

pstrong38 Studios adds some bench strength to its all star line up./strong/p pThe baseball analogies will never get old when talking about 38 Studios. Sports and MMOs go together like peanut butter and pickles, but I can’t help myself. I blame two decades of ESPN for my affliction. Speaking of sports, Aubrey Hodges, announced in [...]