LEGO today sent out an email to media explaining that, despite relatively good reviews and 2 million players, the company has not been able to make enough money to sustain its MMOG, LEGO Universe.

The company also announced that, as a result, it will be letting 115 employees go.

From the press release it sounds as if the company is instead focusing efforts on other games. LEGO Universe launched Fall 2010 with a limited trial followed by a paid monthly subscription required to play. It recently switched to a freemium model, allowing anyone to play for free but with additional items and extended content costing real money.

Do you choose to play as the four ninjas set out to recover the weapons first and save the world or are you going to take the role of the skeleton army and to hell with the rest of the world? Read our review to see whether or not it is even worht deciding…

This massively-multiplayer online game includes customizable LEGO avatars and, so far, most of the elements you’d expect from any online role-playing game (except leveling up).

Here’s a bullet-point list of the game’s features and my observations base on the first day of the closed beta. Also check out the LEGO Universe Photo Gallery of screen shots.

While at E3 I made my way over to the WB booth to check out the Lego Harry Potter game for the wii.

Like the other Lego games you get to play as many different characters, and can even switch between them at will. Each character has different abilities that might be useful as well.

It was about a year ago when we first discussed the Lego MMORPG game, Lego Universe. Back then, it was just a simple announcement but now the game is moving along very well.

The Lego Universe designers are now in the world design stage and Netdevil has recently sponsored two Lego Universe Project events, also known as LUPs. At the first LUP, the company got together all kinds of testers to discover that they could create all sorts of…