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Developer CCP has announced their 11th free expansion to MMO EVE Online. It's called 'Dominion' and focuses on reworking the sovereignty system, making it much better.

Player control of territory and alliances will be thrust back into the forefront of gameplay with the expansions release this winter. It also adds the first COSMOS iteration; a social network.

LucasArts has announced the fourth Sith class for BioWare's MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. The Sith Warrior joins the list of already announced classes, which are the Bounty, Smuggler, Hunter and Trooper.

"Though the lightsaber is the Warrior's primary method of attack, he also uses his dark command of the Force to paralyze, terrify, and kill," said LucasArts. "Protected by heavy armor and his powers of intimidation, the Warrior wades into the thick of the fight and unleashes pure hatred and fury to eliminate all who would stand against him."

NCsoft's MMO Aion is almost ready to rock our virtual online world, but first you can jump in for free from September 6th to the 13th as it enters the public beta phase.

The game officially 'starts' on September 22th, but pre-order customers can select their characters on the 18th and begin playing them on the 20th. Gamestop offer a bonus comic.

Atari have been bad say Turbine, they've not done enough to distribute the Dungeons & Dragons Online game, they have "failed to devote the necessary resources to it."

They also accuse Atari of dragging their feet to ensure their "competing product", the Champions Online MMO, benefits at Turbine's expense. The dev wants justice for its "past investment".

THQ and Vogster Entertainment announced today that CrimeCraft has shipped and will be available at certain retailers in the US on 28th August.

The revamp of Battle.net has promised to be a free service for Blizzard users, and that isn't changing. Value added services on the other hand might creep in more.

They're all about providing "amazing value", so they "may add some stuff" to Marketplace but whatever it could be it "won't interfere" with the free content. No Xbox Live-like subscriptions.

If you've canned that Lord of the Rings Online subscription then Turbine are after you, in a good way. To help win you back they're letting you play for free with all the new updates.

You don't need to reactivate your account, just download the client and log in to the game. All players have been given a +25 percent experience boost too; all this until August 24th.

WoW.com reports that its learned through multiple sources that the upcoming World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion pack will contain two new playable races.

The horde will gain Goblins as a playable race, while the Alliance side will be able to play as a Worgen, which are said to be like werewolf's.

To celebrate the launch of the closed beta test for Cities XL, Strategy Informer has teamed up with Monte Cristo, developer and publisher of Cities XL, to offer 200 beta keys to its members.

For a chance to win one of these keys please register an account and leave a comment below with the words "count me in". The first 200 people to do so will be granted exclusive access to the Cities XL closed beta test.

Remember, this is on a first come, first served basis, and keys are expected to go quickly.

EA announced today that its recently released MMO strategy game called BattleForge is now a Play4Free title. The game was recently reduced to $29.99, but EA has now decided to make the game free.