The space-themed MMOG Black Prophecy will be a free-to-play online game, announce gamigo AG and Reakktor Media, as gamigo now owns the global distribution and publishing rights for the game, which is expected to enter closed beta testing next month. They say: "A lot has happened in the development of Black Prophecy in the past few weeks. The biggest change has been the new direction as a free-to-play online game, previously unheard of for a game of this quality. Among other things, a crafting system was added and the layout of the game world was opened up. In-game dialogue will be recorded by professional voice actors. The one-and-a-half hour long orchestral soundtrack provides a rich and varied score of background music."