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It’s official, Final Fantasy XIV will be hitting the PC on September 30. Can’t wait that long? If you buy the the collector’s edition you’ll be able to lose yourself in Eorzea a whole eight days earlier starting on September 22. Even more impatient? We hear the PC beta will be kicking off in early July.

PlayStation 3 fans are being forced to have patience as there has been no word of a release for the console version. Hit the jump to find out exactly what the PC collector’s edition has!

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Star Wars and MMO fans alike will drool when they see this quartet of trailers. Check the video above for the sweet ride you’ll get in Stars Wars the Old Republic and hit the jump for a videos that give you the low down on everything from armor progressions to gameplay.

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These are looking great Square Enix, but we want to know two things. When is the open beta testing and when can we buy it?

Those eagerly awaiting the release of Final Fantasy XIV can now download the official benchmark tool to find out if they’re gaming rig will ru Square Enix’s latest MMO. Not only does the benchmark tool analyze the performance gamers will experience when running Final Fantasy XIV on their computers, but it gives gamers a taste of what to expect in-game with “an event featuring fully voiced dialogue” and the chance to gaze upon the character models of each race.

Those who want to test their system can download the benchmark tool here. Square Enix has been suspiciously quite about Final Fantasy XIV during this E3 so far, but it looks like they’re about to open the E3 information flood gates after a few soft announcements like this one.

Heroes of Newerth is a new online PC exclusive that combines elements of RTS and RPG in an attempt to make an original system for an MMO. Does Heroes of Newerth hit its mark? Keep on reading to find out.

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Burned by your last Star Wars MMO experience? At least this time around, you won’t have to take the financial plunge to walk on the Dark Side.   Kotaku reports that SOE’s next free-to-play MMO is based of the Star Wars: Clone Wars TV series, and it’s due out this fall.  Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures will take advantage of the popular Free Realms free-to-play format, giving players the option to pay for special content, items, and additional features.

Our best hopes? That Star Wars: “Free Realms” fares better than the woeful and confusing saga of Star Wars Galaxies, and if we’re lucky – Clone Wars will also see a PS3 port similar to what Free Realms itself may be getting.

Screen captures of supposed World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta invites have been making their way to infamous image board 4chan.org. While anything posted on 4chan immediately comes into doubt, we are sure that the friends and family beta is well underway.

Although this may seem like a good time frame for the Cataclysm beta to take place, some fake invitations are being sent out as well. While there may be some legitimate beta invitations floating around, the ones on 4chan don’t particularly convince us. Some of them are riddled with spelling errors and come from emails that blizzard wouldn’t use. You can find the supposed beta invitation posted on 4chan after the jump!

Have you received a Cataclysm beta invite? We’d love some shay spy cam shots sent to tips@vgtribune.com.

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Presumably following Blizzard’s strategy to sell mounts in World of Warcraft, Sony Online Entertainment has begun to sell in-game “Prowler” mounts for $25. The mounts come in blue, purple and green flavors.

Each mount comes in your choice of one of the following versions: Fierce and Arcane. The Fierce version increases Slashing, Aggression, Ranged, Piercing and Crushing of caster by 5, while the Arcane version increases Focus, Ordination, Disruption, Subjugation and Ministration of caster by 5. Both versions of the mount have a 65% run speed.

So Everquest II players, are you willing to drop the $25 for one of these mounts? Let us know in the comments!

It appears that the long awaited Final Fantasy XIV YouTube channel has been launched today and with it they have decided to show us some gameplay. Now personally I still haven’t decided if I am looking forward to another Final Fantasy MMO after the mess that was XI but I do kind of want to after that. Please tell us what you think in the comments.