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 ...

Lord Of The Rings Online developer, Turbine, has snapped up two of the floundering former bigwigs who worked at Flagship until they were made redundant in July. Dave Brevik and Jeff Lind, who headed development of Hellgate: London, join Turbine's newly formed West Coast studio in Redwood City, California as chief creative officer and director of engineering, respectively. Turbine said that the new studio currently has no specific objectives other than playing a role in its 'corporate vision'.

Codemasters Online's Lord Of The Rings Online is to get an in-game social networking site. Developer Turbine's boss Jim Crowley announced this morning at the Tokyo Game Show that it would be "a version of Facebook or MySpace that sits directly on top of the gaming world. "This is a fully featured, rich, robust social network. It has every single feature that you would find in the major commercial social networks such as Facebook and MySpace." It will launch at the end of this year ...

Hobbits, Men, Elves and Dwarves – how do you plan to celebrate Father's Day this year? Will you buy your Dad a lame card from the shop? A bottle of whisky maybe? Or some tartan slippers to add to his burgeoning collection? Boring. What your Dad wants to do is spend some quality time with his kids. And what better way to bond with him than to spend the day fishing, watching fireworks and taking part in the numerous activities and festivities Turbine ...