Legends of Equestria
Legends of Equestria, the MMO that recreates several familiar locations in Equestria in a 3-D environment that you can explore as your own pony-maker pony, is holding its next open server weekend on August 14-16.
Several of the LOE developers were the hosts of a panel at GalaCon in Germany (August 1 - 2) where they had the game up and running in the Games room. (The panel might appear soon on the Canni Soda YouTube channel.) Then on Friday August 7th (9 pm) at BronyCon, members of the development team held another panel in the "Hall of the Sun" . You can already watch the panel that they held at BABSCon just this Spring thanks to a recording by Ponyville Live! over here on YouTube.
The open server weekend on August 14-16 2015 is worldwide, for all, online. To get there, join the Legends of Equestria forum (you username and password will be the same as what you use to log on the MMO game). Download the latest Game Build (runs on your computer). The download is usually available the night before the server opens. The first post in this topic gives parameters, a command list and other details.
Each open server weekend has something new. Last April the most apparent tweak was the fuzzy glow on the characters, as you can see in the picture I've posted. The dangerous critters were also more alert and lethal that time around.