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Bethesda will be letting us mere mortals toy around with The Elder Scrolls Online this August at the annual convention of Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. The studio tease more dates will be revealed soon.

Gamescom runs from August 22nd to the 25th with everyone welcome to attend once you've bought tickets. This will be TESO's first appearance at Gamescom at the Bethesda booth.

En Masse Entertainment has announced that its action-MMORPG Tera is celebrating its first anniversary, having launched on the 1st May 2012. The game recently went free-to-play and rebranded itself Tera: Rising.

The transmedia experiment that is Defiance from Trion Worlds is both MMO and TV show. In a bid to tie them closer together a competition is now running for fans to win a place on the Syfy series.

The contest runs from today, April 30th, until Friday next week, May 10th. Those looking for stardom will need to earn the most Ark salvage per hour. You must register and complete Most Wanted pursuits.

EVE Online developer CCP has been tinkering with World of Darkness, their planned MMO based on White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade IP. They've got 70 people working on it right now.

These past few weeks they've been focused on art tools, server-side hardware, vampire powers and social tie-ins. The rest of 2013 will go to clothing, PvE, web-based social tools and item creation.

Today is scheduled maintenance day in Star Wars: The Old Republic, which means the MMO won't be available for a few hours later today as BioWare give it a tune up. They are also releasing a patch.

The Rise of the Hutt Cartel launch brought some new-fangled things to Star Wars, and now BioWare starts tweaking them, like raising the ridiculously low cap on planetary commendations.

Perfect World has announced the pricing for the upcoming Legacy Pack that will be coming with the Legacy of Romulus expansion for Star Trek Online.

Raid fans in World of Warcraft can finally enjoy the fourth and final section to the Throne of Thunder raid content which was added with the 5.2 update. It has been opening up in a staggered release, which is the tradition.

Now players can finally face off against Lei Shen, the main bad guy of the piece. Pinnacle Of Storms is the last section, joining the other three. Get your rotations ready.

The latest expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Rise of the Hutt Cartel, has gone live. The $19.99 USD expansion adds the planet of Makeb, a 55 level cap, and a new epic storyline with fully-voiced cinematic conversations.

BioWare has released a new trailer for the major 2.0 update coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic, titled "Scum and Villainy". The 2.0 update will also prep the game for the major Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion as well.

Bad Pug Games has announced that the developer's free-to-play turn-based strategy MMO, Starpires, attracted 100,000 new users in the first 24 hours after release. The first server, Alpha Sector, has become populated by over 2,500 empires.