The company that has the World of Warcraft licence in China, The9, is rumoured to be in talks with EA to license Warhammer Online, one of WoW's closest MMO rivals.
Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts studio, today announced that a new ten-day free trial is now available for the critically-acclaimed fantasy MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR). Potential recruits to the armies of WAR are invited to spend ten action-packed days hunting Squigs, stomping Stunties, exploring massive capital cities, and battling opposing players in thrilling Realm vs. Realm combat.
Today marks the start of WAR's first expansion "Call to Arms". The Bitter Rivals event will start on March 3rd (Today) and will be available for download via the WAR Patcher. This event will allow players to gain access to the much anticipated careers of the...
dailywarhammer.com: "If you are like me, the opening trailer of a game gets boring after the seeing it more than three times. This is especially true for WAR. Every time the game launches (retail version), you are forced to watch the opening cinematic."
The Warhammer Online Patch 1.2 goes live today, introducing the new Choppa and Slayer classes and starting off the Bitter Rivals event.
EA/Mythic have released their February WAR Newsletter, which includes details of the game's first free Live Expansion, details and release dates for the new classes being introduced (Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer), and more details on the major upcoming patch, V1.2. Plus much more:
The massive new patch for Warhammer Online, Update 1.2, is going live on 3 March.
For the first time since launch, EA and Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has released 10-day trial accounts to FilePlanet subscribers. As of now, only residents of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and the U.S. are eligible.
Testers of Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning's new classes, the Chopper and the Slayer, are being offered the chance to win some exclusive customisation for their characters.
Mythic have opened up another batch of free character transfers for players on a select number of servers in their MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
This week TGR has a bit of breaking news that hit Thursday evening about World of Warcraft losing its lead designer to another MMO. There is also news of layoffs at NCsoft and an announcement about SOE's next MMO, Free Realms.
Via WarCry: "Warhammer Online's Mark Jacobs has penned a fairly comprehensive look at the upcoming v1.2 patch. He outlines several important changes and fixes. The v1.2 patch will be available on the public test server beginning next week."
Edge writes: "Warhammer Online developer Mythic will see further staff cuts as its publishing partner EA looks to reduce its global workforce by 1,100.
Starting Saturday, February 7th, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning players bloodlust will start to boil as the Night of Murder descends upon the MMO world. Lasting until February 16th, the Night of Murder is a live event that blurs the differences between Good and Evil beneath a crimson haze as the forces of Order and Destruction fulfil deadly tasks in service of the Dark Elf god Khaine.
Massively writes:
Tomorrow morning a new patch is coming, which will bring you Patch 1.1.1, a maintenance patch which contains a few goodies including the Night of Murder live event content (starting on February 6, 2009), a few very important open RvR changes, additional Flight Masters, and more.
BeefJack writes, "While the global economic apocalypse has most of us either watching our backs at work or flinging ourselves out the windows of where we used to work, online game developers in Asia are seeing a new source of revenue: the unemployed.
Mark Jacobs at Mythic revealed that official forums are coming to the Warhammer Online website. The lack of official forums have been due to Mark Jacobs view on such.
This week Warhammer Online "Gets to tha Choppa" with its first expansion, and Lord of the Rings Online gives you the chance to win some pretty nice swag just by logging in. It's Friday, people, and this is MMO Weekly.
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