By Frank on September 18, 2009
Image by She Takes The Cake via Flickr
Today marks the first anniversary of the release of Warhammer Online, the spiritual successor to Dark Age of Camelot, and Mythic’s 2nd major attempt at an MMO. It was one year ago today that WAR, the darling of the MMO playerbase at the time, released to major fanfare [...]
Posted in Gaming, Warhammer Online | Tagged Gaming, Massively multiplayer online game, mythic, Warhammer Online
By Frank on August 17, 2009
Image by J. Stephen Conn via Flickr
These days, you get the sense that Mythic’s just plugging away at WAR. Seemingly unconcerned at past transgressions and not particularly worried about the upcoming MMO releases on the horizon, the folks who develop WAR are starting to hammer away at the existing problems of the game.
Typifying this is [...]
Posted in Gaming, Warhammer Online | Tagged Massively multiplayer online game, mythic, WAR, Warhammer Online
By Frank on July 1, 2009
Image by Kenzoka [wish I had more time now...] via Flickr
For a few days now, it’s been all quiet on the WAR front. Speculation abounded for a little bit, until we saw a post from Community Coordinator Andy Belford explaining that the upcoming holiday meant the Mythic offices were taking a bit of a break, [...]
Posted in Gaming, Warhammer Online | Tagged mmo, mythic, Warhammer Online
By Frank on June 24, 2009
Image by Aminimanda via Flickr
So if you haven’t heard the buzz around the interwebz about this news, check out this link about the Mythic/Bioware group merge on Warhammer Alliance.
For those not in the know, both Mythic and Bioware exist under the EA umbrella these days, so in a bold move of re-organization and utilization of [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Warhammer Online | Tagged BioWare, EA, Massively multiplayer online game, mythic
By Frank on August 31, 2008
As some of us are (hopefully) taking the long weekend here in the US for Labor Day to have a nice little barbeque and spend some time with family and friends, I thought this was an appropriate time to talk a little more about that wonderful thing that happens when it comes to highly-anticipated MMOs [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged beta, mythic, Warhammer Online
By Frank on August 19, 2008
So with today’s NDA drop for Warhammer Online, everyone who was in the closed beta seems to be scrambling to put down their keyboards and mice and post their thoughts about the game as it stands today, a little less than one month before release. Well, far be it from me to not jump on [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged beta, mythic, Warhammer Online
By Frank on August 19, 2008
So the latest, exciting news on the WAR front is the fact that the Non-Disclosure Agreement will be dead in a matter of hours, allowing many people who’ve had to have their lips zipped and their mouths shut to finally talk to everyone who wasn’t their friend or on their IM list. Yes, once again [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged beta, Gaming, mythic, nda, Warhammer Online
By Frank on August 15, 2008
Mythic Producer Josh Drescher talked a bit today about fitting a bunch of junk into your little bags for a jaunt, pretty much calling out fellow employee Justin Webb for trying to cram everything into one carry-on bag for a trip to Germany’s Leipzig.
Now I’m not really sure what Justin is planning to do while [...]
Posted in Conventions, Social Geekery | Tagged Conventions, mythic, social geekery
By Frank on August 1, 2008
As if most of you people didn’t already know, I play MMOs. I usually only play one at a time, mostly because I honestly can only have so much of a good thing. It’s like having a steak. Some people like to eat steak every so often. There are people like me who are steak [...]
Posted in Gaming, Warhammer Online | Tagged Gaming, mythic, open beta, Warhammer Online
Subscribe for Optimism!