Last year saw the launch of many highly hyped MMOs, all hoping they could replicate World of Warcraft's success. Sadly, their plan to gank WoW failed and few survived. We take a look at why so many MMO games fail so quickly and whether Word of Warcraft will ever be beaten.

Age of Conan has finally landed and this is one MMORPG which really looks like it could stir up the genre a bit. It's about time too. We take a close look at the DirectX 9 client for Eidos' new Cimmerian MMO to see if it's got the guts to match the garters...