It’s High Noon and the WAR NDA is Still Standing

Yesterday in a post over at the WarVault, Mark Jacobs wrote a post regarding Open Beta and the NDA lift.  A small quote from that post by Mark, “As to the NDA, we expect to lift it tomorrow morning.”  Well it’s almost noon …



Warhammer Online Open Beta

Pre-ordering a copy of Warhammer Online will get you an invite to the open beta phase of WAR but no one knows when that will be (edit: we know now). We know you can start downloading the beta client somewhere around the 15th (edit: the

MechWarrior MMO

Jordan Weisman, the founder of FASA Corporation and creator of the MechWarrior franchise has reacquired the license for MechWarrior back from Microsoft along with a few other properties previously in the FASA catalog.  He has taken his newly reacquired franchises back and launched a new game company to boot, Smith and Tinker.  While he hasn’t made …

They Set Us Up the Bomb

With the atom bomb that Mythic Entertainment dropped yesterday about the massive cuts for Warhammer Online it’s leaving many WAR fans in an emotional fog and just as many WAR haters saying, “I told you so”. It is a lot to take in for sure, I still can’t quite wrap my mind around whether or …

Warhammer Gives Good and Bad News

Mark Jacobs announced some good news and some bad news for Mythic’s upcoming Warhammer Online.  Well, he announced some good news and alluded to other good news, heh.  First we’ll start with the good news, the bit he alluded to:  Warhammer Online won’t be delayed, probably.

 

The other good news, the part he actually did announce …

Google launches Lively – MMO or Glorified Chat Room

Lively launched sometime yesterday and from all I’ve read pre-launch it was supposed to be Google’s version of Second Life.  I virtual world where players could explore real world environments and interact with other people.  This thing was supposed to redefine how people view and use the internet.

 

So far, bzzzzzzzzzzz.  That’s my buzzer sound.  I …

Shot Online: Hurricane Tournament

Shot Online is hosting a set of four tournaments in the month of July.  The overall prize for first place is a full set of repairable Hurricane clubs while 2nd and 3rd walk away with a full set of non-repairable Hurricanes.

 
San Jose, Calif. (June 26, 2008) – San Jose-based online game publisher, Gamescampus.com (www.gamescampus.com, run …

WAR For The Win!

I just finished reading a post from Syp over at Waaagh about his predictions on how Warhammer Online will fair in the MMO market and what he thinks are the keys to getting it there.  Syp lists 10 points that he believes will influence the outcome …

GameZig – “The Forum”

Hello ever faithful readers!  Just wanted to take a second to announce the launch of GameZig’s latest project:  GameZig “The Forum”.  Hope you don’t mind me stealing my title idea from SpaceBalls!  Heh, anyway – with all the visitors we get here and the questions I get in emails about computer …

Massively Goes PlanetSide

Direct2Drive

If you’re looking for a bit of fun this weekend I’ve found something you may be interested in that’s off the beaten path.  The staff of writers, leads and columnists over at Massively.com are hosting their first get together being sponsored by …