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Ve3D reports Masthead’s debut game, Earthrise, is going free-to-play. As of December 1, players will no longer be able to purchase monthly subscriptions, and the games is expected to make the full conversion on January 1. A boxed version will be available at retail and grant access to the “premium” version. The scifi MMO shooter launched in February this year, and has an emphasis on PvP play.

Is hump day over with yet? No? Sorry about that, trooper. How about more minuscule headlines to help you pass the time?

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Bethesda has filed a lawsuit against Interplay for trademark infringement, and breach of agreement over the Fallout MMO.

Citing failure to “commence full scale development by April 4, 2009 and to secure certain funding for the game”, Interplay has disputed the claims and maintains that it still holds the rights to develop Project V13 with Masthead Studios.

This lawsuit comes months later after Bethesda challenged Interplay’s rights to the game back in April, when Interplay was actively seeking financing or income, without which it will be forced to liquidate assets, sell the company or face bankruptcy.

On a brighter note, Natiq “Defonten” Aghayev, Project V13 concept artist and Fallout fan community member, has released a bit of his concept sketches done for the game, which is featured in the header image.

More regarding all of this can be found over on, The Vault, which has a link to the legal documents filed.

Ensign’s Log, Stardate 63048.5: This week was the Develop Conference in Brighton and quite a bit of interesting news was announced for MMOs across the galaxy, but that was already covered on the main page.

Therefore, to make things more compact, the rest of the news has been complied into one entry.

Read on past the fold for more regarding Star Trek Online and ship customization, WoW getting its very own App, Champions Online getting the microtransaction treatment, and loads more.

Time to sign off. Spock, Kirk and McCoy have asked me to beam down to this strange planet with them, and they hate to be kept waiting.

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Interplay’s MMO – the one no one’s supposed to know is based on the Fallout IP – has pulled in some help in the form of Bulgarian outfit Masthead Studios.

The game, codenamed “Project V13,” will benefit from Masthead’s tech, while Interplay is to retain control of the dev process.

More on Eurogamer.