The World of Warcraft Community Site (thanks Ant) has details on how characters can be optionally moved from some eligible realms in Blizzard's MMORPG. Word is: "Players with characters on high-population realms will now have the option of transferring their characters to a low-population realm. Dispersing the population across all the available realms will reduce lag and queues and improve the overall play experience for our players." Also, the Auto Assault Forums are online, dedicated to Netdevil's upcoming automotive MMORPG, and the Recon section on the official website discusses the game's "destruction" feature. Meanwhile, the Shadowbane Website offers a list of planned improvements in the works for Wolfpack's MMORPG. Finally, WBIE announces the conclusion of beta testing for The Matrix Online, saying the spoon-free MMORPG will launch next week:

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and SEGA have just revealed that upon the launch of The Matrix Online on March 22, 2005, a specialized role playing live events team will propel the game's storyline with prominent Matrix character action.

As part of the unique continuing story based nature of The Matrix Online, a specialized Role Playing Live Events Team has been put in place to assume the roles of the actual Matrix characters and support the continuation of the storyline within The Matrix Online, a massively multi-player online game co-published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and SEGA. Within the context of the storyline, players will interact, battle and eventually team up with the main characters from The Matrix saga, as the experienced Live Events Team will actively role play their Wachowski Brothers approved, continuously written parts, including Morpheus, The Oracle, Seraph, The Merovingian and more.

Further, the Live Events Team will also be responsible for producing and implementing large scale story events that are real-time gameplay activities, which progress the story in The Matrix Online. Sample activities that the Live Events Team will produce are:

    • Choreographed, Live interaction with characters from The Matrix saga, including Morpheus, The Oracle, The Merovingian and more
    • In-game story relevant contests
    • High-profile missions with Matrix characters, inclusive of key players from the game
    • Supporting player organized events
    • Speeches, riots, parties, duels and more

Jack into The Matrix Online next Wednesday to play with the actual characters and see the future of the Matrix unfold.