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For all you COD junkees looking for your latest fix, here is something to feed your need. Looks like some brutal 4 player co-op action. Enjoy.
 
 

Six-Week Showcase at iGames Centers, Sept. 18 - Oct. 31; “WAR Rally” Community LAN Parties at Select Centers, Nov. 1, 8, 15; “All Out WAR” Special Event Nov. 22

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iGames, the leading LAN center organization, cordially invites the brave and the bold to a series of special events to celebrate the release of Warhammer® Online: Age [...]

With the eve of WAR looming and many players chomping at the bit to get into the world of Warhammer and experience the game for themselves we take a peek at what some of the head start guys are saying about WAR! The chatter among the players goes anywhere from “This is a WoW crusher…” to “Where the hell is my RvR?”.

It should come as no surprise that Blizzard chose this day, the day before Warhammer Online goes, erm…online to make their announcement for the release date of Wrath of the Lich King.  Since WOTLK can’t share the same or close release date, might as well make an announcement to try to keep some of the [...]

Get ready for the worldwide WAAAGH! Mythic Entertainment announced today that North American players who have pre-ordered Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will be able to get the jump on creating their characters and exploring the world when the game’s “Head Start” program begins on September 14th.
 
The “Head Start” program offers players early access to [...]

I’m not nearly as bad as OTHER people. Excuses, excuses. We all make them when we feel cornered if someone tries to put us on the spot - but we all know that when we get put on the spot it should be a sign that we may be endulging a bit to much. Whether it be alcohol, drugs, sex or in this case video games - addiction is a nasty thing that we all need to keep an eye on.

Multiplay - one of the largest gaming communities in Europe - is pleased to announce it has 50,000 beta keys for Electronic Arts’ upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning MMO. The keys are for the open public beta and will be available from Thursday 4th September 2008 from Multiplay’s new gaming downloads site, www.fileplay.net.
 
Upon entering WAR, [...]

PAX attendees, brace yourselves - WAR is coming to the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington from August 29th to 31st.  Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) will be making its last huge appearance before being unleashed upon the gaming masses on September 18th, 2008 - the Day of Reckoning.
 
Where: Penny Arcade Expo, Booth #322
When: August [...]

The winners of the Leipzig “Best of” categories have been announced, most notably taking the best on-line game is our baby Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR).  Read below for the entire list:
 
For the sixth time, the Leipziger Messe has awarded the title of “Best of GC” to the most innovative new products at the [...]

That’s right, you heard me.  WAR has come.  Today begins the next chapter in the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) saga - otherwise known as beta.  The closed beta ends with a massive RvR battle with up to 100,000 players able to participate.  The Preview Weekend has begun for CE Pre-order gamers and those [...]

Every single time a new, big IP based MMO gets announced or gets near to completion, everyone starts asking the same question.  Is this going to be the one that kills WoW?  Usually it’s accompanied by that standard image of a gravestone with World of Warcraft plastered on it.
 
I don’t understand why so many people [...]

Finally, the English version of the WAR full length cinematic trailer being unveiled at Leipzig has been released.  No more translating.  Enjoy!
 

Now that the NDA has officially come down, we are beginning day two of the Great Flood of War.  WAR Bloggers across the board are posting up a ton of great information about the game with first impressions, videos, podcasts and screenshots.  There’s some good tutorials out there as well as recommendations from playstyle to [...]

Due to Tropical Storm Fay, I have spent a very lazy day just laying around.  I finally mosied over and turned on my computer to find a more than welcome email sitting in my inbox.  It has come time for WAR Preview Weekend!  The email I received was my Preview Weekend Invitation.  It read as [...]

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 and not a peep out of the Mythic camp on the NDA [...]

This is an awesome preview of the trailer that is rumored to be unveiled at Leipzig.  This is only a clip, but it is amazing none the less.  The clip is in French, but there is a rough translation here.
 

War cinématique 2 from Ludovic Arquilliere on Vimeo.
Source:  WarhammerGamers.com

Early on, it was pretty widely believed that the pre-ordering WAR would get you a ticket into OPEN BETA along with the closed beta testers.  That may or may not be the case as it appears there are only a limited number of open beta slots available to players.  So the case may be that [...]

Tomorrow morning, August 19th the NDA wall will finally be coming down, thanks to Keen for pointing out this good bit of info!  Finally, closed beta testers will be able to openly discuss the in’s and out’s of WAR.  Expect tomorrow to be a flood of new information posts, podcasts, videos and screenshots of previously [...]

Though the OPEN BETA will not begin until the 7th of September, you can get a head start on downloading the client if you Pre-Ordered WAR.  The OB client is available as of today!
 
To download, first you must register your Pre-Order Code at the official Mythic account management website.  Your Pre-Order code is either going [...]

On September 7th - that’s about three weeks away from now so don’t huff and puff to much.  And don’t impale the messenger!  The 7th will give open beta testers a little over one week of playtime before the game officially launches on the 18th - depending on when the head start program launches anyway.  The open [...]

What the heck is this? I do not even know. Here is what I have gathered.
 

All of you who, like me, are counting down the minutes until you will finally get to play war can indulge in a little bit of Realm vs. Realm battle before WAR even goes live. In Road to WAR, each [...]

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 18th), but that doesn’t mean that is when the Open [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve been over to Mythic’s website but have noticed they have released their minimum system specs for Warhammer Online.  The specs are within reach of most gamers these days, but after the launch black screen disaster that was Age of Conan for many, it should be pointed out that still [...]

I’m typically addicted to checking my blog, writing for it or reading my RSS feeds from my fellow bloggers - but not in the past few days.  I finished the upgrade on my system and have been pretty much playing Call of Duty 4 ever since.  I have so many other games I want to [...]

At least, why I’m not going to buy it right away.  Snafzg over at TheGreenSkin.com made a great point, in my opinion, when he posted that he thought the next beta phase for WAR could be the actual release.  We’ve seen it so many times before - they are called rocky releases.  The next big [...]

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 [...]

Counter-Strike: Source is the most well known and popular online FPS there is. It’s also a very customizable game; you can change the textures and models of everything, and there’s a map editor and a mod creator included with the game.
 
CS:S is an online FPS, in which you play skirmishes between Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists. The [...]

Before you tie me up to the stake and light the torches, hear me out!!
 
Star Wars Galaxies, even though it is still alive today is a failure for the Star Wars fans in my book.  It started out as a fun game with some features I really enjoyed.  Granted, there were parts of the game [...]

Half-Life 2 is one of the most successful Survival FPS games ever, if not the most successful. It has won over 35 Game of the Year awards, and countless others. It was, as it’s predecessor was, revolutionary. It had better graphics, a better engine, and a better story than any other game there was.
 
In the [...]

I know this sounds like a ridiculous question - being that the very name of the game KNIGHTS of the Old Republic just oozes Jedi, but it’s a question being asked by Geek Critique and he makes a point on that’s what ruined Star Wars Galaxies.  But this is a totally different time frame where [...]

With all the rush to find out more info about the KOTOR announcement I missed that the World of Warcraft: WotLK closed beta has begun - bringing the game out of the Alpha stage and one big step closer to release. I have entered to participate in the Beta but haven’t got that email yet, [...]

E3 was very interesting this year but I expected more huge announcements besides Final Fantasy going to Xbox 360, and PlayStations Kill Zone Beta coming out later this year.  I guess I expected some new and original IP?s but yet only saw a few.  Don?t get me wrong there was so good looking stuff such [...]

In a Portfolio.com interview this week at E3, John Riccitiello (the CEO of Electronic Arts) confirmed that the secret project in the works is indead Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Online in partnership with LucasArts.
 
During the interview, N. Evan Van Zelfden asked point blank if the top secret project at BioWare’s Austin based [...]

Along with all the new content in the Wrath of the Lich King update, Blizzard will be releasing a new feature called the Achievement System.  Basically, it’s a list of things a player can do to gain titles and rewards.  Mostly through things they are already doing, like PVP, exploring the game world or progressing [...]

 
Mythic Entertainment released a video today showing off what some of the Realm vs Realm and Siege warfare action is going to look like in WAR.  Just based on the scale of the combat and the amount of different things going on in the video - keeping things running smoothly performance wise is going to [...]

Too Human will be hitting store shelves sometime late next month, but as most of you know there is now a demo available on Xbox Live. How is it you may ask? Well it depends on what you expect from a game like this. Too Human is definitely different from a traditional RPG, it has [...]

While doing my usual browsing around today I found a cool little video some beta tester leaked out over YouTube.com showing the Storm Peaks in the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft.
 
Toward the end of the video, stay tuned for a sneak peak at what appears to be the city [...]

This your first time twinking? Maybe you are getting bored with high level raids in World of Warcraft and looking for something else to do while waiting for WotLK? Maybe you are tired of getting owned in BG?s and want some payback? Hell maybe this isn’t your first time and you are like me, a [...]

A week ago I got that special email from the makers of Mythos inviting me to join their closed beta playground. Initially I had to create an account with the usual stuff; user ID, password, email, and etc. No problems on that end registration was simple and didn’t require any credit card information. Next came [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Syp over at Waaagh! has a post up about the CE for Warhammer being sold out by this coming Monday, possibly.  This got me to thinking about my previous experience with a Collector’s Edition and whether or not it’s worth the money to buy the CE for WAR. 
 
First, we have to take into account what [...]

With CrypticStudio’s having their ever so cryptic hint at a possible upcoming Star Trek MMORPG, questions are beginning to circulate about what it would be like.  After reading an interesting question from the folks over at Massively, it got me thinking of possibilities.  To sum it up, Kyle Horner at Massively was asking folks if [...]

Having problems playing in punkbuster enabled games?  Computer slowing down or crashing?  Frame rates getting horrendous?  There is a reason.
 
Ever since CoD4 patch 1.7 was released we started noticing frame rate problems in game.  At first we thought this was a problem related to the new CoD4 patch but unfortunately it appears to be a Punkbuster [...]

You see the ads for these two game economy wreckers all the time - power leveling and gold farming.  Hell you probably see one right now - wink wink.
 
World of Warcraft is a good example of how powerleveling and gold farming damage a games economy.  Now don’t get me wrong, farming in a game for [...]

Happy 4th of July! I’m taking the day off of blogging to spend the day with my wife and daughter and go watch some good old celebration fireworks. If you are a hardcore gamer - I know a lot of MMORPG’s out there have their own versions of holidays, Star Wars Galaxies had a lot [...]

I’ve been leveling my fire mage now for a while off and on to get him into the 49 bracket for some serious twinkage but I’ve stopped for a bit along the way at 39 to do some battleground PVP to start working on my PVP gear for my mage.  I need enough marks of [...]

 
 
The first of dungeon to be announced by the Warhammer Online team is The Bastion Stair.  Both the Order and Destruction are drawn to this source of Chaos power.  The Order will be venturing into the twisted and torn landscape of the Chaos wastes to attempt to recover Myrmidia’s Spear - the only remaining artifact from [...]

When I first saw the trailers and game play footage of Diablo 3, I must say I was impressed.  Finally things in the game looked the way I thought they should have.  I was especially impressed with the end boss characters being much larger, looking more like you think a boss should look.  Mean.
 
But there [...]

Arcade games are a great way to relax and enjoy a little bit of downtime.Most are a coin-operated entertainment machines, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. These games are often converted into the latest titles, which is why you rarely see older games in your local arcade. [...]

 
 
Activision is set to release the next title in the Call of Duty series, World at War - scheduled for release this Fall.  The game will be available on PC, X-Box 360, Nintendo Wii and the Playstation 3.  The time line for this game is going back to the World War II theme of previous [...]

In the next big patch (I beleive scheduled for next week?) is going to introduce apprentice mounts for players now at level 30.  To train for the ability to ride the new mounts will be 35 gold giving the lower level players a cheap boost to speed.  Every 10 levels or so usually has a [...]

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 [...]

In my ever growing quest to see some changes take place in our fast-becoming stale MMORPG template I’m going to publish more and more ideas. Out of the box thinking is what it will take to spice up upcoming titles and give them something different from the World of Warcraft mold so many games seem to be [...]

Major console systems like the Nintendo Wii, the Sony Playstation platform and Microsoft’s X-Box 360 all seemed to be suffering from the same affliction that has hit our beloved MMORPG genre of PC games - no or low risk game design.  Games like the Grand Theft Auto series are to the console as games like [...]

GameSpot just did some research into what it takes to run Age of Conan and what it takes to run it well.  Unfortunately, the page with the full article appears to be down so I can’t get in and read what the post says - but I can read between the lines.  Having played AoC [...]

As the title of the post makes obvious, this was a very slow gaming weekend.  I messed around a bit in Call of Duty 4, working toward getting my gold AK-47 (I have no idea why I want one) and spent an hour or so in World of Warcraft leveling up my mage to level [...]

Oh the great debates we could have!  I hear people complaining in World of Warcraft battlegrounds all the time when a twink kills them.  They complain because he is uber powerful with all that extra gear!  Being that I’m usually playing a twink myself the complaints go in one ear and out the other without [...]

I was just reading an article by Kevin Murnane over at Massively about greed.  Kevin’s right in that there is a lot of greed in MMO’s - friends stabbing friends in the back for epic loot and the like.  With that in mind I started reflecting on end game content and how in most MMORPG’s the end [...]

Warhammer Online is definitely garnering more and more of my attention lately with the let down of Age of Conan and the repetition of World of Warcraft making me look for new horizons.  Yesterday afternoon I was reading some Ten Ton Hammer interviews with WAR developer Mark Jacobs about the way crafting will work in [...]

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 of WAR’s fate down the road, starting with number one, [...]

Well, that feels like a waste of $90.  I have this fancy box, this cool leather map and a game account I’m no longer going to play - at least not in the near future.  Age of Conan for me was a fun break away from the normal MMORPG in it’s unique style of combat [...]

Dice and Electronic Arts are sitting on a virtual gold mine with the battlefield series as a possible candidate for the next big MMO.  Overall the vast majority of gamer’s fall into one of three main categories: MMORPG, FPS and Strategy.  With a title like the Battlefield series that originated in the FPS and already [...]

I remember the thoughts that ran through my head when I first started reading pre-release info about Star Wars Galaxies, my first step into the MMORPG world.  Before this I was an FPS ’stat’ whore and competition shooter.  I only played first person shooters, mostly in the Delta Force series from Novalogic back in those [...]

Getting back to the MMORPG Cookie Cutter topic, to keep MMORPG’s from getting stale and give developers a fresh perspective on things gamers want, I started thinking about some interesting ways to bone up on features in new and even some current MMORPG titles.  Now, these aren’t necessarily a major overhaul on the whole MMORPG [...]

I recently read a few posts at various other sites talking about how all the MMORPG’s coming out as of late have been pretty well cookie cutter games.  In other words, the same game repackaged with a few ’stand out’ features.  Like AoC for example, a lot of people are comparing that to WoW in [...]

Once again Massively delivers a unique insight to the world of warfare in their series in which they talk about the dynamics of attacking keeps and fortresses in the upcoming MMO Warhammer Online.  Some of the highlights of their coverage is the siege weapons themselves.  There are four classes of siege weapons available for purchase [...]

Awhile back, I went to visit my brother who plays a lot more console games than I do and he had rented Mass Effect for the weekend from Blockbuster. I’m not big on game pads but he coaxed me into trying it out, since it’s more fun than just watching him play I gave it [...]

 
Cornered Rat software is extending an invitation to all past players of WWIIOL to help them celebrate their 7th year online.  Starting June 6th, they will receive a week of free online play to check out how far the game has come since they last played. 
 
Players will participate in special events, skill competitions for great [...]

InfinityWard has released the next big patch for their Call of Duty 4 game for the PC.  Patch 1.6 features a few bug fixes and some much needed updates to the killcam. But what was even more needed is fresh content for this title and InfinityWard delivers with 4 new maps for COD4.
 
Chinatown:
 
A remake of [...]

Massively just ran a story on WAR: How to Conquer a Capital City in which they explain the end game scenario that Realm vs Realm combat in WAR focuses on.  In Realm vs Realm, just about everything you do contributes to your Realm’s success.  From PVE quests to PVP to crafting, everything influences your Realm’s control [...]

Open beta for Rohan Blood Feud has begun and is already jam packed with testers, so much so that YNK Games has more than doubled their number of servers in the first few days of testing to accomodate the huge influx of fans and they promise to continue to increase capacity as demand also increases.  [...]

Definitely a rarity in the MMOG universe, Eve Online is set to release there latest content upgrade in the form of a free expansion, Empyrean Age.   The most anticipated addition in this expansion is the new PVP system, Factional Warfare.  This allows for all out war between rival factions and encourages players to form militias [...]

There are rumors floating around that Bioware is working on two things right now, first they seem to be working on a new MMO project.  Kotaku has an article about some of the MMO rumors and is speculating that the new MMO is not going to be based on KOTOR.  However, if you look at the team [...]

 
The ultimate goal of any MMORPG is to totally immerse you in the game world.  That’s what keeps you coming back, in the game world you can be whoever you want to be.  You are a jedi knight constantly at odds with the Empire or a rich and powerful merchant.  The original SWG didn’t pull [...]

One thing I’ve always talked about and have thought is missing within most major games since my early days of MMO’s have been the ‘game within a game’ idea, or mini-games.  Star Wars Galaxies had the concept in early development with some mini-games but they quickly were moved to the back burner and never made [...]

My heart just about stopped today when I read my email.  I got my first message from BestBuy stating that they are giving me a coupon for $10 off of my next purchase because my pre-order of Age of Conan Collector’s Edition was delayed leaving the warehouse.  Guess who my next email was from?  FunCom, [...]

One game I’ve been watching lately has been Stargate Worlds, an MMO based on the popular television series, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.  I’ll admit, I’m not to up-to-date on the story line in Atlantis, I’ve maybe seen 2 episodes but SG-1 was a real favorite of mine.  At least it was until Richard Dean [...]

Trying to build on the popularity of WAR in the Oceanic community, EA announced recently that they’ll be hosting a dedicated Oceanic server on mainland Australia.  The server will be available for play to anyone in the world but is primarily designed to offer gamers in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and other Southeast Asian territories [...]

 
Some cool new features coming along with the next expansion to World of Warcraft “Wrath of the Lich King”, no doubt aimed at fending off serious competition from Age of Conan.  For example, some of the new quest mechanices they are implementing in the new expansion offer mount based combat.  If you remember in the [...]