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Since bringing the Account Center live it has come to our attention that some Target Pre-Order customers are encountering errors when attempting to register their keys.
We have discovered that due to mis-printing the letter “Q” is displaying as an “O”. Pre-Order keys will never contain “O” or “0″. Be sure that in any scenario where there appears to be an O that you enter “Q” instead.
We apologize for this inconvenience. Thank you!
Author’s Comment: This is actually happening a lot! Happened to a few people I know already
If you happen to be interested in Warhammer Online’s open beta, FilePlanet.com just launched sign-ups for the open beta for Warhammer Online.
Warhammer Online Subscriber OPEN Beta: FilePlanet Subscribers can join the exclusive open beta for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Open beta keys are limited so grab one now! This program is for North America, Australia and New Zealand. Download the client and prepare to play on the 7th!
EA AND MYTHIC ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE THAT WARHAMMER® ONLINE: AGE OF RECKONING™HAS GONE GOLD Award-Winning Fantasy MMORPG Marches Toward Sept. 18th Launch
FAIRFAX, Va. - August 26, 2008 - GET READY FOR THE WORLDWIDE WAAAGH! Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Mythic Entertainment today announced that the highly-anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR), has gone gold and will open its servers on September 18, 2008 at an MSRP of $49.99 in North America.
“We’ve done our best to create the next great MMORPG experience, but it’s the fans that will bring our world to life,” said Mark Jacobs, vice president at EA and general manager of Mythic Entertainment. “The Day of Reckoning approaches and it’s going to be glorious! It’s time to go to WAR.”
Based on the popular tabletop game from Games Workshop, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an epic fantasy MMORPG featuring innovative Realm vs. Realm™ game play that pits the forces of Order and Destruction against one another on the battlefield to determine the fate of nations.
Awarded “Best Online Game” at the recent Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, “Best PC Game” of E3 by G4’s X-Play and “Best MMO” of E3 by IGN, WAR has been well-received by critics and by the gaming community as an accessible and engaging MMO title. Tens of thousands of players have already joined the battle in the closed beta, and soon the time will be at hand for players the world over to pledge their allegiance to the armies of WAR.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is scheduled to launch simultaneously in North America, Europe, and Oceania on September 18, 2008. Available for PC, WAR is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB. For more information, visit http://www.warhammeronline.com/.
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About Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™
Experience the glory of Realm vs. Realm™! Declare your allegiance and join hundreds of thousands of mighty heroes on the battlefields of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the new MMORPG from Mythic Entertainment, the creators of Dark Age of Camelot™. Enter a grim fantasy world of perpetual conflict to fight for the Realms of Order (Dwarfs, High Elves, and Empire) or Destruction (Greenskins, Dark Elves, and Chaos). Invade enemy lands, besiege imposing fortresses, and sack sprawling capital cities for the glory of your Realm. Wield devastating magic and deadly weapons, battle monstrous creatures, and join your brothers-in-arms in epic Public Quests™. Climb the Bastion Stair, carry your Guild Banner into battle, and unlock the infinite secrets of the Tome of Knowledge as you travel the world. Sharpen your blade and unleash your inner mutation; the Age of Reckoning has begun and WAR IS EVERYWHERE!About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS™, EA™, EA SPORTS Freestyle™ and POGO™. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, Mythic Entertainment, Dark Age of Camelot, Public Quests, Realm vs. Realm, and Game Time are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Games Workshop, Warhammer, Warhammer Online, Age of Reckoning, and all associated marks, names, races, race insignia, characters, vehicles, locations, units, illustrations and images from the Warhammer world are either ®, ™ and/or © Games Workshop Ltd 2000-2008. Used under license by Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Author’s Comment: I always thought they go gold when they announce the release date, I guess not. Anybody know if a game can ever become silver, or bronze?…
If you have preordered Warhammer Online from Amazon.com, we wanted to let you know that your codes will not be mailed to you. Instead, you can find them in your Media Library in your Amazon.com account. Here’s how to access your codes:
Select “Your Account” from the upper-right corner of the Amazon.com screen.
Select “View Your Media Library” from the right column in the “Where’s my stuff” section near the top of the page.
Log in if necessary.
When the Media Library page appears, at the top of the screen you will see several tabs, one of which is called “Downloads”. Click on the drop-down arrow to the right of the word Downloads.
Select Bonus Items.
You should see all the codes you have access to here.
The Warhammer Online closed beta “preview weekend” has come to an end today. All servers are shut and many of you are eagerly awaiting to get in for the open beta which is schedule to open shortly. We’ve had a chance here at Warhammer Geek to play for the past week or two and we have a lot to say about it (listen in for the podcast which should be available soon(tm)). The wiki is starting to shape up and we have been collecting information already to plug into there and update.
For those of you who haven’t played yet, be impressed. This game is all around one of the best titles the staff here as played and many of us haven’t even got into the Tier 3 area’s yet. The public quest system is better than we expected as the quests are not as isolated as you may have thought.
I won’t spoil the fun though, make sure to get out there and try the game before it launches. If you do not have a pre-order key and you live in the United States, Target super markets are selling the open beta key’s (without having to pre-order the game) for 99 cents.
New screenshots will be uploaded shortly however the wiki will be more populated with them on the individual pages.
The NDA for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is now down. This will let us express ourselves a bit more with our content and will allow us now to fill in the empty gaps on the wiki which we have been waiting to do for the last few months.
Stay tuned, make an account on our wiki, and fill in what you see fit! It’s all open now!
The news posts from us (Warhammer Geek) should slowly start picking up again within the next week or two as everybody returns from vacation and short term plans. As for Warhammer Online, the suspense has been building drastically as important information and dates are starting to be released. Below is a small culmination of game important facts.
Open Beta Date / NDA Drop: August 15th, 2008*
Official Launch Date: September 18th, 2008
Subscription Fees:
* Monthly Subscription: $14.99 USD
* 3-Month Subscription: $41.97 ($13.99 per month)
* 6-Month Subscription: $77.94 ($12.99 per month)
Minimum System Specs for WAR:
For Windows XP
· 2.5 GHz P4 (single core) processor or equivalent
· 1 Gigabyte RAM
· A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
· At least 15 GB of hard drive space
For Windows VISTA
· 2.5 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
· 2 Gigabyte RAM
· A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
· At least 15 GB of hard drive space
Pre-Order Package Includes:
* Open beta admission: Pre-order customers can experience the glory of battle and the thrill of WAR by participating in the open beta test.
* Head Start program: Players can begin their adventures in the Age of Reckoning before the game’s official launch.
* Bonus in-game items: Players can equip their characters with two bonus in-game items by pre-ordering from select retail partners.
* Universal Fighting System™ Battle Deck: The Emperor Karl Franz and Tchar’zanek, dread Champion of Tzeentch, go head-to-head in this exclusive collectible card game from Fantasy Flight Games. (Available in a limited supply from select retailers.)
* Open beta invitations given out by the CE Pre-Order will activate at this time. If purchased through the EA Store, codes will be sent out August 13, 2008.
Unfortunately due to various real life events occurring simultaneously… Svoald going to Austria, Wrenn potentially moving house and Orlock having to unexpectedly house sit for some family (long story). Episode Six of the Podcast of Reckoning will be delayed for a short while depending on real life allows for a couple of them to get together. We apologize to our loyal subscribers for the delay and we will try and get the next episode out as soon as possible.
August 9th Update: The next podcast is currently in the recording stage. Expect it soon!
Recently posted on the VN Boards, Mark Jacobs clarifies Server Ruleset changes in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Read Mark’s original post here.
Eurogamer recently published a pretty interesting preview about the overall gameplay experience in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Read the full preview here.
All of this is nice to see. A relief, even. Months from release, Warhammer Online can already confidently stand alongside WOW and LOTRO in an MMO beauty pageant, and impress the judges with its grace and deportment.
10TonHammer’s own Josh Hoskin went at this year’s San Diego Comic Con where he had a chance to talk and clarifiy some details with Associate Producer, Josh Drescher about the major career & cities drop-out announcements. You can watch the whole interview here.
EDIT:
Here’s Part Two of the interview where Josh gets into detail about PvE and RvR. You can watch the interview here.
This important news bit came from the guys at VaultNetwork, who not only did a cool preview of the current state of the WAR Guild BETA at E3 2008, but found out some interesting tidbits of WAR goodness from Adam Gershwitz himself. However, the last line of the interview will get most of you really excited.
As our preview came to a close we were told that the NDA is on its last leg and should be coming down in only a few weeks. This news, along with all that we saw in our preview, confirms that we have indeed entered into the Age of Reckoning.
Read Keen’s full preview here.
Join Orlock and Wrenn for Episode #5 of the Podcast of Reckoning - Tune in Monday, July 14 at 3pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern / Midnight BST.
In this episode:
Best of The the Web: - Several highlights about what’s been going on in the WAR community since the last Podcast.
The Great Debate: We invite Snafzg from The Greenskin and ChaosCast to join us as special Guest Host to discuss the HUGE news of Mark Jacobs’ announcements! This is something you don’t want to miss!
Community Interview: We’ve invited Arcadiea from Guild Vendetta to join us. Hear what makes this Order guild tick, and some very interesting insights on how the guild was built! That’s right! This interview proves that not all guilds play Destruction!
The podcast will be available for download once it airs live at Online Gaming Radio, Warhammer Geek & iTunes.
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Be sure to Tune in live before the show as this week marks the return of The Audiogasm
Listen to Orlock’s Return to Music Show Mayhem - starting at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm BST.
Every week he will be here, either to play in the Podcast of Reckoning or in the off weeks to do a twice the size show to keep you all entertained.
In what is the biggest announcement made by Mythic Entertainment this year, Mark Jacobs tells MMORPG.com why four careers and capital cities will be missing from the release of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
“We decided to focus our energies on two capital cities; one for Order and one for Destruction, and make them fabulous, said Jacobs. “Not good, not great, but fabulous.”
“We wanted to make our Capital Cities the best cities in any MMO. We think we’re doing that, but it came at a price and that price is that the other cities aren’t going in the game right now.”
“Four of the classes that we’ve been working on, we just couldn’t get great,” he continued. “We looked at them and we said these careers are just not great… and we tried, and they weren’t coming out well.”
Read the full article on MMORPG.com
A press release has been issued by Mythic on BusinessWire.com, stating that Guild BETA has begun. Oh the joy!
View the full press release here.
Recently, EA Mythic have had their rights from EA reclaimed and now they are once again named Mythic Entertainment. The following article came from MMORPG.com.
“We are going back to Mythic Entertainment,” said Mark Jacobs, the VP and General Manager of EA Mythic. “I’ve always been a believer of separate branding”
p.s This had my attention on the whole article though.
While this is the end of the announcements for tonight, log on to MMORPG.com tomorrow for a report on the rest of that interview that includes three other exclusive announcements specifically addressing Warhammer Online.
Waaagh! has revealed the next interview in the Imperial Inquisition series with Tony “RadarX” Jones from Ten Ton Hammer. Learn about his MMO experiences and his role as a Community Manager.
WAAAGH!: Tell us a bit about yourself — your handle/screen name/real name, age, real life occupation, your previous MMO experience, and your play style.
RADARX: My name is Tony Jones and I currently use the handle RadarX which I’ve had since the BBS days of yore. I’m currently a Community Manager at the Ten Ton Hammer network where over the years I’ve been involved with a number of our sites including EverQuest 2, Lord of the Rings Online, and Tabula Rasa.
My MMO game experience goes back to probably Ultima Online, but my first true love was the widely known EverQuest which I played for roughly a year and a half. I’ll leave out what I’ve played and just try and hit the most influential games for brevity. From EverQuest there I bounced around a few games but spent some time in Dark Ages of Camelot and Star Wars Galaxies before settling in EverQuest 2 for long while. After a few years there I tried played World of Warcraft on and off, Lord of the Rings Online for a few months, and then landed at Tabula Rasa for a bit…
Read more about RadarX.
Author’s Comment: RadarX is a Florida boy FYI, like me! Just giving you all the facts in case you wanted to know.
Fact. EA Mythic has announced today that WAR will also ship in Russia with a very own localised version. The WAR Russian community now have the opportunity to enjoy WAR in their native language. The official press release can be read here.
Join Orlock, Svoald and Wrenn for Episode #4 of the Podcast of Reckoning - Tune in TONIGHT at 7pm eastern time.
In this episode:
Latest News: A few tidbits of news, including the introduction of Wrenn (Warhammer Conflict) joining Orlock and Svoald (Warhammer Geek) as permanent co-host of the Podcast.
Important Program Note: Mid-way through the recording of this episode of the Podcast of Reckoning - Svoald had to leave for his vacation. So, filling in on the main segment is Guest Co-host - Josh Drescher, Associate Producer - Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
Community Interview: We had the honor of talking to Beibhinn from Warhammer Vault about a variety of subjects.
The podcast will be available for download once it airs live at Online Gaming Radio, Warhammer Geek & ITunes
Are you wondering what the Anarchy Guild is all about? Join Pantso one of our volunteers in their chat event… following taken from the forum post regarding the event.
Thursday 26 June at 20:00 (8pm) GMT
It is time we all talk together in a more personal way. Join the Anarchy Chat Thursday at 8pm GMT and talk with all the Anarchy Staff and members. We will expect to see you there so don’t forget to bring cookies (preferably Dwarf Flavored). So whether you want to apply for the guild, talk to our members or just want to meet us be there.
See you all there
The time of the event is for:
Greece : 10:00pm
Sweden : 9pm
UK : 8pm