Welcome to MMO Reporter Daily, your bite-sized MMO news podcast. This is episode 6 for July 13th, 2012. Today we discuss The Secret World’s free weekend, Final Fantasy XIV and Tera’s Summer festivites, an upcoming WoW novel, Origins of Malu coming to PAX, and the delay of Planetside 2′s beta.

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News:

http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/celebrate_the_first_live_month_of_the_secret_world

  • Enjoy a free weekend inside The Secret World starting August 3rd

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=2249a4597b4aeab411f27a8bbeb1c214d4cee7b9

  • FFXIV’s Moonfire Faire returns with traditional dress

http://tera.enmasse.com/summer-event

  • Tera’s summer festival

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/people-don-t-want-to-pay-for-games/0100373

  • A study shows that people don’t want to pay for games if they can help it.

http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/30/star-wars-battletech-scribe-michael-stackpole-to-write-new-wow-n/

  • New WoW novel by Michael Stackpole to be released Early 2013

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/07/30/soe-delays-planetside-2-beta-files-reign-of-fear-trademark/

  • Planetside 2′s beta start will be delayed

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