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BMunchausen

Neilie Johnson / Neilie Johnson is a freelance contributor to MMORPG.com. She's been writing about games since 2005, developing games since 2002, and playing them since the dawn of time. OK not really, but she's pretty sure she's got controllers older than you. Witness her game-related OCD on Twitter @bmunchausen.

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Easter Comes to Forge of Empires, Grepolis and The West

InnoGames is getting a jump on Easter this year by hosting in-game events in three of its games. Starting March 25, Forge of Empires is holding an egg hunt, then on April 1, Grepolis and The West follow suit (respectively) with a magic reward-laying hen and a festive bandit duel.


Second Alpha Starting March 20th

Browser-based MMO Stormthrone goes into its second Alpha phase this weekend, adding two new servers to the existing two from the first Alpha phase.


Second Season Tournament Finale This Weekend

This Sunday, action RPG Path of Exile is hosting and livestreaming invitational tournaments for the game's best players. To make it worth their while, the company is awarding four Alienware hardware packages to the winners.


Space Exploration RPG Set to Launch April 2

With VoidExpanse less than two weeks away from launch, developer AtomicTorch is banging the drum to clue MMO fans into the features its retro-spirited, procedurally-generated mini-MMO.


Timoshenko Update Introduces Soviet Faction

Heroes & Generals saw its largest update ever this week, and among other changes was the addition of the Soviet Union Faction. Named after Soviet commander Semyon Timoshenko, the update augments the game with 1,000 new European battlefields, 14 vehicles and planes, and more than a dozen new weapons.


Hardcore RPG Dungeons of Aledorn Launches on Kickstarter

Czech developers TEAM 21 this week launched a Kickstarter page for their upcoming hardcore RPG, Dungeons of Aledorn, calling it a "spiritual successor" to old school dungeon crawlers.


New Tournament of Sorcery Event

Action RPG KingsRoad is upping the supernatural ante with its next in-game event, the Tournament of Sorcery. In it, players will journey to the tower of the Mad Wizard and those who successfully face his 13 challenges will win the first ever War Banner item.


Releases Part 2 of the Developer's Round Table

Group-oriented MMO Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has been keeping the community up to date on its process via Soundcloud, and this week the Visionary Realms team released part 2 of their Developer's Round Table.


Mordheim: City of the Damned Content Update, Phase 4

Rogue Factor's adaptation of Games Workshop table top game Mordheim: City of the Damned is changing all the time, and this week Early Accessors will notice it's switched from Unity 4 to Unity 5.


Season 5 Finals This Sunday, 12PM PDT

This weekend, four North American World of Tanks teams go head-to-head (to-head-to-head) in San Francisco, battling it out for $150,000 in prize money, as well as the right to move on to the Grand Finals in Warsaw, Poland.


Content Expansion Announced for Infinite Odyssey

This spring, Lineage II players will enjoy a new expansion named Infinite Odyssey, and will have the chance to name five new high-end skills in a "Name That Skill" contest.


Addresses the Learning Curve With New Mentoring System

In the interest of bringing new players into the fold, strategy MMO Tribal Wars announced it's adding a new Mentoring System that assigns each newbie to a veteran player.


Able Gamers Doubles Its Presence at PAX East

Nonprofit charity Able Gamers is all about improving the quality of disabled gamers' lives, and to that end, this year the organization is setting up two booths at PAX East.


Rise of the Wolf Expansion Adds Class Stronghold Characters

This week, castle builder Stronghold Kingdoms released Rise of the Wolf, an expansion that adds a new PvE gameplay mode.


Underworld Ascendant Achieves Fifth Stretch Goal

Next-gen sequel to Ultima Underworld 1&2, Underworld Ascendant has been raking it in on Kickstarter, and thanks to reaching its $750,000 stretch goal, the game will now enjoy the swampy presence of the Lizardmen.