(I'm sure it's not because this feature was sponsored by Warhammer Online or anything... right!) I just thought this was a cool excerpt from GameSpy's Holiday Buyer's Guide: Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning World of Warcraft finally has some decent competition. We here at GameSpy have steadily played quite a bit of WoW since it came out in 2004, but Warhammer Online finally stole away some of our thralldom. It's easy to see why. Warhammer borrows liberally from the undisputed market leader,…  More

Because a lot of fret and worry has been spilled over the number of WAR players who (supposedly) returned to WoW for the expansion pack -- including, it seems, the formerly WAR-only Casualties of WAR guild/blogger social network -- I've tried to stay aware of what's been going on over there in Blizzardtown. As far as I can tell, a majority of people are giving the following two reports: Wrath of the Lich King is very well-done, interesting, pretty and caters well to the casual player. And it…  More

So I guess it's okay to log onto the internet during vacation, y'know, just this once.  See what e-mail I've gotten (I need to enlarge my spleen why?).  Check up on the news (I think there was a presidential election or something, either Pinky or the Brain won).  Google Reader?  Hmm... 675 new posts... /glance at wife, who is currently hogging all seven pillows in our hotel room.  Yeah, I guess I have time. Read read read scan scan scan. Reminded once again that Book of Grudges has hung …  More

I'm taking the next week off blogging, work, school and the internet to take my wife on a much-deserved vacation away from it all.  Fret not -- I shall return, more hearty and hale for the undertaking. In the meanwhile, avail yourselves of all of the Warhammer Online links on the right-hand side there -- there are literally tons, metric tons of great WAR blogs, and I expect you to get addicted to the huge variety of voice and opinion out there. Take care, keep up the good fight, and until a week from now, may you find your own very special sand castle. …  More

I thought I was the only one who found the recent Warhammer Vault article "Kid kills family because he is unable to dye cloak, Warhammer to blame" in poor taste, until I read a pretty harsh condemnation of that title on Ark's Ark. It's an arresting title because it sounds like an actual news item, one of those ridiculously overused "games kill people" news items that the media loves to latch onto.  However, it's just a rant about the author's frustration with the limitations of the dye system …  More

We in the blogosphere are especially susceptible to the news cycle when it rears up -- big, meaty issues that suddenly become the Talk of the Town until just about every blog's weighed in with their opinion, dawdled on it a little, and then moved on. Today... we're not moving on. Today, we're moving back. Since writing WAAAGH! is both an exercise in documenting my mental breakdown AND the history of the community and development of a AAA MMO title, I have on hand many, many articles in which …  More

The funeral in question is for NCSoft's Tabula Rasa, aka Richard "Lookit Me, I'm Inna Space!" Garriot's Tabula Rasa.  With Auto Assault shutting down its doors last year, this makes two semi-high profile NCSoft titles that have bit the big one recently, with more cuts (Dungeon Runners?) possibly to come. I actually played Tabula Rasa for a few weeks at launch -- I'm a sucker for newly-launched MMOs, and it was quite hard to resist a scifi-themed one to boot.  And after I got over the bumpy fi…  More

So what are we to make of Heavy Metal at this point? Okay, apart from the rockin' guitar riff when you open the Live Events tab (for fun, click on the tab multiple times, rapidly!) and a severe decrease of annoying summoning horn sounds, the meat of this patch was in the Reikland Factory scenario and the Heavy Metal "to do" list (which is gradually opening up, but soon will present itself in its full, naked glory in time for the Thanksgiving holiday). The scenario is both fun and a success, vi…  More

The most excellent and most mentally disturbed group of folks that grudgingly allows me to play along with them and sing loudly on Vent has opened the doors of recruitment for the first time since open beta. That's right! Now, you too can become a <Tome Raider>!

What's a Tome Raider? It's a myth... a legend... and a lackey, all in one. It's the heights of mankind's destiny, and the lows of a crappy loot roll. It's the frighteningly deep voice of Gronte, the nonstop chatter of Doxie,…  More

It looks like WAAAGH!'s transition to GameRiot is going to happen this week, so please excuse any dust or snotlings as we do so.  You might notice that waaagh.wordpress.com is already redirecting to waaagh.gameriot.com -- you'll probably want to update your bookmarks or feeds to the latter.  More info as it develops!  More