MMOs are steadily breaking out of their PC confines and into this console generation thanks to the massive support for online play. Speaking at the "MMOs to consoles" panel at the GDC in Austin, Turbine VP of product development Craig Alexander makes a comparison between the two powerhouses of the seventh generation. His thoughts - it's easier to develop MMOs for the Xbox 360 than the PS3.

If you're still stewing in your seat thinking about attending BlizzCon 2009, you're too late. Don't worry too much, though, you're not the only one. You know those 20,000 tickets for the event? Well, they were all sold out...in just eight minutes.

Electronic Arts and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) will be hosting a panel entitled "Homophobia in Virtual Communities" to discuss methods on how to combat discrimination and hatred language in online gaming communities.

IGG has got a truckload of CD-KEYS to give away for their massive real-time strategy game, Galaxy Online. Up for grabs: game cards worth 30 Points (US$ 3) FOR FREE. All you have to do is to register and create a Galaxy Online account and voila! You've got yourself a cool prize. Details and instructions can be found after the jump.


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The Fourth of July weekend celebrations may be over, but the party's just getting started over at Free Realms.Their Seaside Summer Splash event is ongoing, and they've got a whole lot of fun and exciting stuff lined up for you.

You'll get to design your own horse, thanks to Turbine's new contest for Lord of the Rings Online. Contestants will be required to use the horse template seen after the jump to provide a custom colorization and tack for your very own in-game horse.

This is the gold mine right here. Literally. The WoW Gold Pig blog is running a contest for 500,000 WoW Gold. We’ve gotten wind of it, thanks to tips (and tweets) from the community, and so went further to fish out more info about it through their representative, Nick Gardner. Click on full article for the complete dibs.

Aww, and I was so gearing up to see some Ghostbusters PSP action in E3! With a sudden turn of events (and to think it's so last minute, with only three weeks left before the actual event), Atari has announced that they're pulling out from this year's gaming event - and no, it's not really because of Swine Flu concerns.

Did you know that technical difficulties really do happen, especially with online gaming contests? Yes, they do! And we had to find that out the hard way as we experience technical difficulties for our  Frag'em Up contest. Not to worry, though. Everything's a-okay. Just that we're pushing back the dates for a few.

The fourth BlizzCon gaming convention is coming, Blizzard Entertainment's just announced today. For this year, it will be happening on August 21-22 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. List of things to look forward to in the full article, so do make that jump!