Turbine Inc. recently sent out a press release related to the Mines of Moria teaser website. In an effort to stave off the massive hordes of eager visitors hoping for new info on the game, Turbine's released a new flash minigame for the players to try out. Learn more about it after the jump!

Now and again, it seems that Cryptic Studios will take a break from spotlighting lore in Champions Online to talk about more metagaming stuff, like game design. This time around, the developer focuses on four important aspects of the design process. Find out what they are after the jump.

Uwe Boll has a lot of experience in making movie adaptations for video games - he's the guy who directed the movie adaptations of games such as House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. Blizzard, however, turned him down when he approached them to make the World of Warcraft movie. Story in the full article.

Ankama has announced that a mobile phone version of their Dofus MMORPG will be this Summer. The game, called DofusPocket, will reportedly give players new content and additional features that will add to the original online game. More int he full article.

NCsoft's John Erskine, Director of Studio Services, has an insightful post about developing support systems for persistent massively multiplayer online worlds. With Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa and Lineage 2 under its banner, we can only imagine how hectic it could be in the support end for NCsoft. Erskine listed factoids that allow us to learn how the MMO giant does things, and you'll see them at the full article.

Artists know that the initial concept art for something rarely becomes the final product without going through some revisions first. Paul Dainton's painting of "The Assault on Lothern" in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning followed a similar process. See what it was like in the full article, right after the jump.

Sometimes, it pays to take a step back and take stock of things. Bruce Sharp has recently done that with Pirates of the Burning Sea. In fact, the art director has taken a good look at what the art of the game was before, what it is now, and where it's heading.

For more on the state of the PotBS "ArtCo" art, (and why it's called that way) turn to the full article after the jump.

Dealing with failure of any kind doesn't have to mean that you're going to come out of the experience empty-handed. That's what the experience of Edward Castronova, the man who attempted to bring us a Shakespearean MMO, teaches all of us. If you're an aspiring MMO developer, better read the full article to check out what lessons he would like to share with us.

Ten thousand is a pretty big number, especially when that involves the number of pages in a document. Such a document exists, however, and it's in the hands of the people at EA Mythic.

As the work on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning continues, it becomes especially important to have the important stuff written down. Let Destin Bales tell you all about it after the jump.

If you're a fan of any of the Blizzard games (the StarCraft and Warcraft games especially), you might want to head over to the full article to watch a video of a tour around Blizzard studios. Just follow the "read more" link below.