So. This past Wednesday. Two days ago. What's now become known as "D-Day" -- the day the WAR community fell to its knees, all Darth Vader-style, and went "NOOOOOO!" as we heard of the delay. I won't admit that this news in any way depressed me, because then I'd be saying that a video game that isn't even out has its claws sunk deep into my psyche and I should just fork over a couple thousand bucks for therapist fees right here and now. So. D-Day. I'm plodding through it, looking at WAAAG…  More

Beta Ticker: 624,388 Without a doubt, this has been the busiest news week concerning WAR since I started WAAAGH!... um... two weeks ago. If it continues at this pace, as current trends predict, I might as well hire on a full staff of forty Fozzy Bears to cover the press. I just need the tomatoes to pay them with. The big news starting off is, surprisingly enough, not the Collector's Edition, but the aforementioned delay in WAR's release until "autumn". Expect to see that word -- "autumn" …  More

Before we do anything else, let's hear what Mark Jacobs has to say over at the Warhammer Alliance Forums. Don't worry, I'll be here when you get back (...i have months of spare time now...). Massively had a post about the delay as well. To summarize what Mark and others have said about the new delay: The official quote is that WAR was delayed to "Invest additional time and effort in implementation and polish to make WAR great. "Fall 2008" is the only launch date they're comfortable in sayi…  More

I guess this is what I get for being overly excited: Warhammer Online is delayed until the fall. Well... crap.  More

With the expected announcement of the Collector's Edition tomorrow and the pre-order offer to get a foot in the door of the beta, a lot more future WARions will have to ask themselves: do I really, REALLY want to get into the beta, especially if the chance is sitting right before me? For many people and certain species of hummingbirds, the answer is "What are you KIDDING? Of COURSE yes!" They hunger, they can't wait, their patience is finite and the sweet nector of gameplay is an irresistible…  More

As the clock ticks down over at Warhammer Online Europe (to the presumptive Collector's Edition/Preorder announcement), the colonies' Warhammer Online website received a major overhaul this week. Thanks to Keen for first bringing this to my attention! Heads pop right and left as we try to keep up with this sweeping torrent of Warhammery goodness, so let's take a brief tour around the updated WAR site and see what's what: 1. The main page (aka "Home") has most definitely shifted from "promotio…  More

(Deep breath.Inhale.Exhale.Belch.Inhale.)

Here we go.Full disclosure time, baby.To be honest, I might be the very worst person in the world to be blogging about Warhammer Online, particularly when you consider how hardcore and X-treme (the X is for “get the lore wrong and we’ll cut your head off”) many Warhammer fans are.Not to say they aren’t great, friendly and lawfully abiding by their various restraining orders, but I had a feeling the first time I uttered “I’m not a hug…  More

Or... something. But when Warhammer Europe posts a big-ass countdown on their front page, the hairs on the back of my neck perk right the heck up. Keen speculates that it might be info about release, the CE box, NDA drop or the pre-order box -- all of which are valid, and we know for sure that we're going to find out about the CE and pre-order boxes next week. As of this writing, the timer has 4 days and 19 hours to go, which puts us at next Wednesday morning, EST. If you need to join in wit…  More

As promised, I sat down to watch through both IGN and GameSpy’s dev interview videos.If you’re not a huge fan of slogging through 40ish minutes of talking heads, here’s the info I gleamed from both, with commentary and beer nuts to follow:

IGN – Paul Barnett (Creative Director)

Paul says WAR is in the “baking period” right now – kill it, cook it and eat it – and they want to stop messing around with it so much to let things settle and flesh out.They’re runn…  More

I really, really wasn't planning on writing so much on WAR this week -- chalk it up to beginning blog excitement, finding out that it's a lot more fun to cover this stuff than I thought it would be, encouragement from the WAR community, and the gobs of info that have landed in our laps as of late. Ever since I was a little kid, if I was excited about something coming up -- Christmas, a vacation, summer break, whatever -- I'd get this nervous, fluttery feeling in my stomach. Since covering the …  More