This one's definitely no rumor. Funcom itself has announced on their official homepage that they are cutting "around 20% of the staff...mostly in the Company's Norwegian subsidiary."

There will be another expansion pack for World of Warcraft, and it will be Catclysm-ic! This was the announcement made by Blizzard last Friday at the BlizzCon, promising to shake up WoW as you know it. Details and debut video after the jump.

After hearing the story of the Swede teen collapsing after 24 hours of playing Wrath of the Lich King, this news comes to no surprise for me. World of Warcraft's second expansion pack has sliced its way to second place in the UK charts, topped only by fellow newcomer, Call of Duty: World at War. In other news, LittleBigPlanet shot down form fourth place to 19th place. Ouch.

The rest of the top UK games after the link!

Let's take a short break from the Tokyo Game Show as we bring news to the MMO crowd. The first retail expansion pack to Lord of the Rings Online, Mines of Moria, has been given a release date. Expect it be available on November 18. Pre-order pricing details after the link.

Gotta love a media blitz! Today via press release, Funcom's let out a whole big batch (and by big, I mean "a huge number of" and "hugely insane resolutions of") screenshots, screenshots, and more screenshots for Age of Conan. We get to see the expansion teaser art too, as well as comparisons of Age of Conan on DirectX10 vs DirectX9. Plus a sneak peak at the free content that's coming within the next few months! It's thumbnail enlargement time!

Funcom has revealed a new teaser image forAge of Conan's first ever expansion pack that's set to be released next year. The concept art itself won't be released until tomorrow, but Eurogamer did give a description of what the concept art shows. Check it out in the full article.

Ready for your regular Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning fix? EA Mythic was at the last Games Day 2008 in Baltimore where they released more information about this upcoming MMO such as details on the population and level caps. For more on this, head on over to the full article.

Codemasters has been releasing info for a few weeks now in anticipation of the release of the Book 12 expansion pack for Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Now the wait is almost over as Book 12 will be released in a matter of days. Details in the full article.

EVE Online has just confirmed that the release date for the Trinity expansion pack is still on schedule for its December 5 release. They also inform gamers that the new content is now available on the test servers for "those who can't wait." More info at the full article.

A bunch of new screenshots and concept art have arrived for EverQuest II's upcoming expansion pack, Rise of Kunark. In the screenshots we are shown creatures and landscapes both friendly and aggressive, beautiful and terrible.

Some of the landscapes have a heavy influence from the cultures of Asia, while others simply show off a grand display of nature's claws. More pictures are also offered for Timorous Deep. The creature arts also show some classic creatures such as the Wyvern and the Giant Leech.

EverQuest II's expansion Rise of Kunark will be released sometime in November. Check out the full article for the rest of the screenshots.