NCSoft's Carbine Studios has been working on a new MMO with an original IP for the past four years, and they're finally ready to officially announce the project in a couple weeks at Gamescom! If you can't make to Cologne, Germany, they'll be bringing the title with them to PAX Prime in Seattle at the end of the month.

Carbine Studios Executive Producer Jeremy Gaffney has written a new dev blog entry to get players pumped up for the big Gamescom reveal. While he doesn't give any hints about the game, he does discuss the team's philosophy behind MMOs:

"We have a number of ideas we've developed over time about what we think is important in gaming - we think it's about letting players play how they want, when they want, and with whom they want. We're gamers that want MORE out of online gaming, and we're all ready for the Next Big MMO. Don't get us wrong - we're not dissing existing games. We can't; like we said, most of us have helped make them. But we think we've learned enough to make some dramatic steps forward. We have developed some new ways of making online games; games that can adapt to you instead of the other way 'round."

Gamescom will be held from August 17-21, followed by PAX Prime from August 26-28.