Demon Souls will be offline at the end of May

ATLUS, the developer of Demon Souls has officially announced that the servers of Demon Souls will be shut down completely at the end of May. After countless extensions, they have made the decision to end it on May 31st, 2012 at 11:59pm PST or 2:59am EST on the following day. ATLUS ‘regrettably’ states that they can no longer sustain the servers and that “now the end draws near” after almost three years of the Demon Souls servers being online.

THQ has 6 months to live

We?ve seen it happening more and more recently – large publishers losing profits, studio closures and wide-scale redundancies. Publishers are taking quite a beating in today?s gaming market, with what appears to be very little they can do aside from cutting down on costs in order to boost themselves financially. We?ve recently seen Sony do this, but THQ has been doing this for a while with no luck.

RuneScape gives a face-lift to starting experience, also new trial and trailer

Jagex has now announced that they are releasing a new starting area within their MMO RuneScape. This is to introduce new players to the game play experience and Runescape?s ?rich and extensive lore?. In order to celebrate for this occasion, the developer has offered a 14-day trial for new users, yielding them access to the entire RuneScape world for themselves.

MMO to offer female players in-game discounts

A Russian developer, Nival, has revealed that the female players of the MMO game, Prime World, will be entitled for discounts in-game purchases. In order to make sure that they won?t be getting raided by people who are just trying to get a few discounts, they will be making a mandatory Facebook login. Nival wants to attract player?s ?sisters and girlfriends? who may not play as much.