It's official: Britain is nuts about MMOs.

We like to give beta keys away on totalpcgaming.com, especially when it comes to more unusual MMOs.

The recent Eve Online expansion, Dominion, has given rise to player corporations trying out the new sovereignty system with truly stellar-scale battles.

In the first part of our The Next Big 5 we checked out Aion: Tower Of Eternity, DC Universe Online and Star Trek Online. This week we wrap things up and take a brief look back at some of the biggest MMO games in the world…

TPCG’s Big Five list of MMOs represents the online worlds that are at the top of their game. But which of the new massively multiplayer releases for 2009 and beyond has the potential to steal one of those coveted slots? April Madden finds out…

We be you can't guess what's in at number one in our Fantasy MMO round-up?! It rhymes with Cow…

Have you ever wanted to save the world? City Of Heroes plunges you into the wonderful world of the super heroic. This time, though, it’s you who is in control. Forget having to play as set characters from the universes of Marvel and DC, City Of Heroes lets you do the thing you always wanted to as a kid – become a superhero yourself.

EDIT: After particulalrly high demand, beta keys are no longer available. They’re running out fast, but beta keys for Cities XL are still available, here on totalpcgaming.com. Simply send an email to tpcg@imagine-publishing.co.uk with “Cities XL Beta Key” in the subject header for a chance to get one - but be quick! Cities XL is the new city-building MMO with offline solo play from Monte Cristo. Check it out on the official website and our full preview here.

I've just witnessed the shut down of Tabula Rasa. It was interesting from a sociological point of view: the mood was, if anything, euphoric. People seemed to be celebrating the fact that they were part of a rare occurance in MMOs and enjoying the final onslaught of the oppressive Bane forces. Strange, considering some of those were undoubtedly hardcore players with a lot of time and money invested in the game. For me, it was a bit of an anticlimax, but being a freeloading hack who popped onto the servers today for only the second time since TR launched, I neither deserved nor expected the same experience that dedicated TR players were obviously enjoying. I had hoped that my puny level six recruit would get boosted to level 50 by a friendly dev, but no joy. I'm not sure what I would have done with all that power anyway, because my main problem was trying to figure out where the action was. Here's my account of the final four hours of TR, from a noob's perspective, for posterity:

Wouldn't it be refreshing to see that headline for a change, no? Instead I've got this for you - it's been relegated to the blog section for being too bloody inconsequential and trite to warrant a news post (bearing in mind my last news post was about a Spore expansion pack – whoop!): "A 17-year-old Fairfield Twp. teen… was arrested Monday, Dec. 29, for inducing panic after patrol officers and medics responded to the boy's home in the 3000 block of Pimlico Court. The ...

It's the day before Halloween and while some of you will be experiencing the delights of an excruciating Fallout 3 download session, or the wait for retail tomorrow, MMO gamers like myself will already be enjoying the in-game festivities of several leading MMOs. Let's take a brief look at what's on offer… World Of Warcraft: It's not like Blizzard likes to brag or anything, but it recently announced that WOW has hit 11 million subscribers. Laid on for its metropolis of ...