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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning News
Latest Headlines for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
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July Producer's Letter
Warhammer Online's Carrie Gouskos has written the July edition of the Producer's Letter. In it, Gouskos talks about summer convention plans for the WAR team in both Cologne, Germany and at the Baltimore (MD) Games Day. The letter also goes into some detail about the recent WAR forum move from the WAR site to the Bioware Community Site and the transition of the European servers back to Bioware Mythic control.
Reported on Aug 02, 2010 -
Developer Q&A Transcript
On Friday, July 30th, players were invited to a developer chat in the public test server Ventrilo channel. MMORPG.com user Christopher8 has let us know that a transcript of the chat is now available Gaarawarr Gabs. Fans asked a wide variety of questions about topics like 6v6 scenarios, whether or not Linux will be supported, and stealth mechanics. There's a ton to read!
Reported on Aug 02, 2010 -
Stability Test and Dev Chat
Warhammer Online players will want to check into the public test server tonight at 8 p.m. EST for a stability test. Devs want to get as many players as possible online and have a couple of incentives to get them there: 1) Two devs will be held captive in the opposing camp's keep. Players are to rescue the dev and escort him back to his keep before the other team. And 2) There will be a Ventrilo dev chat beginning at 4 p.m. EST.
Reported on Jul 30, 2010 -
Forums Moving Within 24 Hours
As announced earlier, the Warhammer Online forums will be moving to the Bioware Social Network. The old forums will be archived and will be made available at some future point. In the meantime, the new Warhammer Online forums at the Bioware Social Network site will be up and running within the next 24 hours.
Reported on Jul 27, 2010 -
Forums Moving to BioWare Social Network
The Warhammer Herald has a new announcement indicating that the WAR forums will be joining the BioWare Social Network. According to the post, players will "have the benefits of being part of a larger community, one with a passion for games as big as our own."
Reported on Jul 26, 2010 -
v1.3.6 Arrives on Public Test Server
Warhammer Online players who want a preview of things to come will want to log into the public test server (PTS). There are several significant changes coming in the next patch. Players will need to download the PTS client to participate.
Reported on Jul 23, 2010 -
QA at WAR
Angela Webb has an inside look at Quality Assurance for Warhammer Online. As she says, "It's a lot of fun, but don't get confused, it's a lot of work." Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the heroes behind the scenes in this terrific inside look.
Reported on Jul 13, 2010 -
EA Takes Over in Europe
The final transition between GOA/Telecom and EA to bring back full control of Warhammer Online to EA is now complete according to a new press release. Under the new deal, publishing, subscriptions and operating will revert to Bioware-Mythic in the EU.
Reported on Jul 07, 2010 -
Producer's Letter
Warhammer Online producer, Carrie Gouskos, has penned the latest letter outlining the updates coming down the pipe in the near future. At the same time, Gouskos acknowledges players' need to hear more about long term plans for the game.
Reported on Jul 01, 2010 -
Mythic Provides Update on Transition
We recently reported that GOA would no longer be publishing Warhammer Online in Europe, though details were scant in the initial announcement. We now know that Mythic will be taking the reigns of WAR in Europe on July 7th.
Reported on Jun 29, 2010 -
GOA Ceases Publishing WAR in Europe, Mythic to Take Over
European publishers of Warhammer Online, GOA, have announced today that they will cease publishing the game in Europe, and have begun transitioning the game's operation back over to Mythic Entertainment.
Reported on Jun 25, 2010 -
More Layoffs at Mythic
Continuing the tumultuous series of events that have plagued Mythic since the launch of Warhammer Online in 2008, it appears that EA Mythic has been hit with a new round of layoffs this morning. Josh Drescher, a key player in the development of WAR and well known to fans, is no longer employed with EA Mythic as of 11AM this morning according to a tweet posted on his personal Twitter account.
Reported on Jun 17, 2010 -
Mythic Nixes Mixed Realm Servers, Announces Appearance Items
WAR Producer Carrie Gouskos recently penned the Producer's Letter for the month of May, which contained a number of revelations for the upcoming 1.3.6 update.
Reported on Jun 07, 2010 -
Pink Dye Available in Support of Cancer Stricken Player
We recently reported on a heartwarming event in which players on the Badlands server from both the Destruction and Order sides put down their swords and PBAOE bombs in support of Tinkerhell, a fellow Badlands player who is fighting breast cancer. Today, we've learned that Mythic has introduced a pair of new vendors to the game via a hotfix that will be selling a "very special shade of Armor dye" for a limited time. That dye, of course, is pink!
Reported on May 25, 2010 -
1.3.5 Goes Live Today
Mythic Entertainment has announced that patch 1.3.5 for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will go live today! Servers are currently down for the deployment of the patch which includes an entirely revamped City Siege system to be 100% RvR, resulting in a 24 vs. 24 battle which will last no longer than 2 hours.
Reported on May 19, 2010 -
Updated Bright Wizard and Sorceress Balance Changes
Patch 1.3.6 was set to bring a number of significant balance changes to WAR, however, several of these simply could not wait and have been pushed forward to go live with patch 1.3.5. The changes being pushed up address the issue of PBAOE "Bomb" groups, as the developers anticipated that this tactic would really throw off the new City Siege experience.
Reported on May 14, 2010 -
Player Fighting Breast Cancer Supported by Community
On Warhammer Online's Badlands server players on both sides of the fight have put down their swords momentarily and dyed their armor pink in support of "Tinkerbell" one of the server's natives who is fighting breast cancer.
Reported on May 11, 2010 -
Public City Siege Testing Begins Tomorrow!
The 100% RvR City Siege changes that will be coming to WAR with the release of patch 1.3.5 have been in closed beta testing for some time now, but according an update posted to the WAR Herald us feeble folk will be able to get our grubby hands on the City Siege changes tomorrow, May 11th when they hit WAR's public test server, Warpstone.
Reported on May 10, 2010 -
Games Workshop Files Suit over Warhammer Alliance
Games Workshop, the owners of the Warhammer IP, have filed suit against Curse Inc, owners of the vast Curse Network of sites, which includes Warhammer Alliance.com, the subject of the suit.
Reported on May 07, 2010 -
Tokens of Appreciation Now Available
Those of you who were caught in last months billing mix-up can now go ahead and claim their two gifts (per character) that were promised as part of an apology for the extremely serious glitch.
Reported on May 07, 2010
