For one reason or another, sometimes we all have to stop playing a game for a time. Be that reason frustration, or simply lack of funds or even some other unforeseen variable coming into our lives, most of us have had it happen and will have it happen again. At least those Lord of the Rings Online users don't have to fret as much.

"From 2nd February until 9th February, 2009 we’re inviting all players to come back and play LOTRO. The doors will be open for former players to enter the world of Middle-earth for a week of FREE game play."

Such news means those of you who let go of Lord of the Rings Online and are currently suffering from withdrawal symptoms, you can now get your dose for free for a week! This is the sort of innovation everyone likes to see from any massively multiplayer development studio.

Source: Lord of the Rings - Europe - Forums

It's about that time again for more exclusive Jumpgate Evolution Media! This week our four screenshots take a look at fighters class ships and factories that are used in crafting.

This screenshots display various Solrain ships, from Haulers to Scouts to Fighters all stationed at a manufacturing factory in Solrain space. You use these factories in the game to do crafting, where you can build weapons and equipment etc.

Check out our four exclusive screenshots for this week and if you happened to miss last week you can view all of our exclusives from December by clicking here.

It's about that time again for more exclusive Jumpgate Evolution Media!

Check out our four exclusive screenshots for this week and if you happened to miss last week you can view all of our exclusives from December by clicking here.

It's been a while since we've brought you a new Jumpgate Evolution feature. Fortunately, December is a time of giving and the folks at Codemasters have decided to send Allakhazam four exclusive screenshots to share with our community, each and every week in December. The Jumpgate universe is huge so even though these new screenshots show a great deal of new content; Codemasters is only letting us scratch the surface.  If you missed our interview with the team back in October; please be sure to give it a read.

One of the features that Jumpgate promises is 'epic, real-time, large scale battles with thousands of people at a time '. These screenshots certainly get me excited about that!

Check out all four exclusive screenshots at the following link.

Codemasters Online Launch ArchLord Expansion Pack for FREE!!

Codemasters Online are pleased to reveal that their highly popular, free MMORPG ArchLord has gone live with a new expansion available now free of charge to all new and existing players. Episode 3: Spirits Awakening adds 30% new game content to the existing game including 3 extensive new zones and over 80 new skills and abilities.

ArchLord Episode 3: Spirits Awakening adds a number of new features and free game content including:

• Expanded world - 30% all-new game content
• All-new zones - 3 new zones for players to explore
• New class skills - Over 80 new skills
• ArchLord abilities - New ruling ArchLord skills and abilities
• New armour & items - New collectible armour sets with unique stats
• New monsters & enemies - New monsters and zone bosses

Available now, Episode 3 is available either through an automatic patch for existing players when logging into the game or included within the full free game download on the game's official website for new players at: www.archlordgame.com

Ed Relf, Director of Marketing, Codemasters Online commented, "This is an exciting time in the ongoing development of ArchLord. ArchLord has never been more popular with almost 750,000 players now playing with this number increasing almost 20,000 new players each week! ArchLord is going from strength to strength and we are assessing the need right now to open new servers just to cope with the increased levels of demand for this great, free MMORPG".

ArchLord is a premier free online role-playing game allowing players to download and play the game with no monthly subscriptions or commitment. The online game challenges thousands of players each month to raise an army, to compete to become the game's all-ruling ArchLord and with it control the entire game world impacting on the lives of thousands of players online.

To download ArchLord, the premier free MMORPG and experience the all-new Episode 3 expansion visit the game's official website www.archlordgame.com .