Welcome to the first in our new series of weekly recaps to keep you posted on some of our most noteworthy news stories, interviews and other exclusive items. At Allakhazam, we strive to bring you current news for a wide variety of MMORPGs, whether they have a ton of subscribers or they're just entering the alpha test phase.

While this new recap series will showcase a variety of articles, we invite you to visit www.allakhazam.com to browse through all of our daily updates. You can also click the news archives link near the top of the left menu on that page to look through all our posts since 2001.

Keep reading after the jump for this week's noteworthy news. For example, if you haven't already, check out part one and part two of our interview with Warhammer Onlines's Destin Bales, or our interview with Project Lore's Zand Broumand. There's even more links below, so keep reading.

Allakhazam Features

• Warhammer Online: Moving Forward, Part One : Destin Bales, Live Producer on Warhammer Online, talks with us about the current state of the game, hardware recommendations, realm balance, and many other issues.

• Warhammer Online: Moving Forward, Part Two : Bales discusses the game's economy, customer service, competing with World of Warcraft, and other topics.

• Allakhazam Watches Project Lore - Zand Broumand : Broumand talks with Tamat about his new soloing segment in Project Lore, as well as gaming in general.

• Jumpgate Evolution Media #1 : Codemasters has supplied us with four exclusive Jumpgate Evolution screenshots. We'll be getting more each week in December.

Noteworthy News Stories

• Win 'Phat Lewtz' at Wowhead : Thanks to Upper Deck, our friends at Wowhead are hosting a WoW TCG give-away contest.

• Aurora Blade Accused of Copying WoW, Other Games : A new web-based browser game is accused of copying character and item designs from WoW, Ragnarok Online and other games.

• Issue 13: Power & Responsibility is Here : The newest City of Heroes update brings numerous changes to the game, including Day Jobs.

• Follow the Allakhazam Team on Twitter : The Final Fantasy XI Fan Fest 2008 starts tomorrow, and you can follow all the action on our Twitter account.

• Frostfell on Test : It's that time of year again! EverQuest II fans rejoice!