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As we seek to perfect the fuel mix to our flux capacitor, it's not the time for Chrono Chaos -- the most awesomeist pretend time traveling WAR guild -- to rest on their laurels (laurels means "buttocks"). Nay! We must move out as a horde, striking forth in a bold attempt to alleviate our boredom. So, Chrono Chaos, as your guild leader, I have a mission for you, which will be worth 20 Elf Ears* for any who succeed in it. It's been long, far, far too long, since Snafzg has posted a new comic s…  More

Go back a few years, and you'd see that the major MMORPG debate at the time between developers was whether it was better to provide a "sandbox" or "theme park" experience for players. Let me explain: "sandbox" MMOs (Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima Online) would create a world and give players tools to experience the world as they wanted -- free-form gameplay, you see, without a lot of underlying structure. "Theme park" MMOs, like World of Warcraft, theorized that players wanted to be guided through…  More

Just something that caught my eye... Tobold interviewed J. Allen Brack, lead producer on WoW, who was quoted to say in regards to expansion rollout: "It's been more than a year than The Burning Crusade came out, and we are not exactly yet happy with where [WotlK] is. The most important thing for Blizzard is that you have the best experience possible when you install it. And whenever Wrath of the Lich King gets to that point, that we feel you will have a great experience, we will release it." I'm…  More

If we were burdened with the homework assignment of listing the greatest fears of the Warhammer Online community right now, "another delay" would be tied with "not living up to expectations" and "getting the stuffing beat out of it by WoW", but just behind "spiders and spider-related superheroes". It's the big invisible elephant in the WAR room: what if WAR's going to be delayed again? It's not outside of the realm of possibility, after all. Mythic has made the call twice to postpone WAR for …  More

Aaaaand right after I wrote that previous article, the newsletter plopped down in my inbox with some stuff I hadn't yet covered. The Guild Beta is officially announced to begin in July. This is, of course, a great sign -- Guild Beta is the last major "closed beta" phase before the NDA drops and open beta begins. For those not in a super awesome time traveling guild such as Chrono Chaos, with access to the guild beta, you might be wondering why GB is such a big deal. Other than being a steppi…  More

Okay, let's get the biggest announcement out of the way first: you just KNOW that the Bastion Stairs dungeon is going to be abbreviated "BS" in in-game chat. "4 more for BS," they'll say, and then warrior-poets with a thesaurus and a heart full of lies will show up. The Bastion Stairs is the big surprise of this newsletter -- our first-ever peek into a full-fledged WAR dungeon (first ever at least to my eyes and knowledge). And it looks pretty darn awesome. The video flies through the entire…  More

Even though he works for big corporate alien overlords at TTH, the Imperial Inquisition has to admit that RadarX does a bang-up job keeping WAR to the forefront on the site. Therefore, we let him off the hook after a light flaying. 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…  More

As is custom in these WAR parts, it's a big game to leap all over the first hidden (or not-so-hidden) tastes of the monthly newsletter. We'll have a lot more coverage next week, but for now you can get a bit of your fix by reading this informative thread on Warhammer Alliance.  More

As we chomp through the summer, salivating for Warhammer's release while the dev team hunches over computer monitors and vaguely recalls what their families look like, the biggest milestone between now and then is the fabled open beta. We've even been taking bets (of a sort) here at WAAAGH! to see when this date would occur. I thought it might do some good (to me, at least) to cull the chaff from the wheat -- or, if you're not into biblical metaphors, the facts from the speculation. Open Beta…  More