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The WAR Reset Button

By Frank on October 4, 2009

Image by yum9me via Flickr As I talked about before on this blog, the new hotness of MMOs this past September has predictably pushed other titles that have been out a while out of the spotlight in order to deal with issues in-house. Warhammer Online is one of these, and the upcoming 1.3.2 patch is [...]

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Happy Humpday Highlights – Shadow WAR

By Frank on September 2, 2009

Image by BlogDeManu via Flickr Yeah, I really couldn’t resist. Old school, baby! This week’s Happy Humpday Highlight, which takes a tour around my blogroll, takes a look at the Shadow WAR blog, run by MMO veteran Andrew. Now, a lot of the friends and readers I’ve accumulated over the past year have been people [...]

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WAR’s Time Capsule – One Year Later

By Frank on September 1, 2009

Image by space_monkey via Flickr Over at Warhammer Alliance we’ve brought back a thread that I managed to start over a year ago about the future of Warhammer Online. The thread is called the WHA Time Capsule and if you click the link you’ll be taken to it. It’s interesting to see a lot of [...]

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WAR Cake Is Everywhere

By Frank on August 29, 2009

Image by The_Super via Flickr Ah, the convenience of posting from a Blackberry. Isn’t technology grand? Anyway, in case you didn’t catch it a couple nights ago, Food Network show Ace of Cakes broadcast a show highlighting the Squig cake that was made for Warhammer Online. Master chef Duff made frequent references to this being [...]

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The Long and (Especially) Short of WAR’s PTS

By Frank on July 21, 2009

Image by Evan Sims via Flickr Warhammer Online’s latest patch, 1.3.0b, seeks to begin the long and arduous process of correcting core problems in the game design, starting with a fix for Area of Effect spells. AoE’s been apparently an issue in WAR for quite some time, with the pinnacle of the current damage situation [...]

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WAR Becomes the Land of the Dead

By Frank on June 23, 2009

Image by Evan Sims via Flickr Today, Warhammer Online‘s 1.3 patch becomes fully live with the introduction of Land of the Dead, a zone based upon Warhammer’s Tomb Kings with an Egyptian slant. If you don’t know the skinny, here’s the bullet point play-by-play: -Constantly Flipping Control: The zone has a mechanism wherein control is [...]

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The Trinity of The Old Republic

By Frank on June 19, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Lately the hot topic of the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums has been, not surprisingly, class balance. There’s specifically been a lot of talk about the “Trinity” system of MMOs and whether or not SW:TOR will follow the same trend or try to do something different. For those who aren’t aware [...]

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WAR’s Career Cautiousness

By Frank on June 5, 2009

Image by jluster via Flickr Warhammer Online has been chugging along lately, with upcoming live expansion Land of the Dead the major thing on the horizon for WAR players. The 1.3 patch, which was supposed to be a massive patch that not only introduced this new content but fixed bugs and balance careers, has been [...]

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Extra Life Update

By Frank on October 10, 2008

So, as some of you know, I will be participating in a 24-hour gaming marathon to raise money for children’s cancer research. As of this writing, I have no sponsors, but regardless of whether or not I get sponsors, I will be participating in this effort, as it is a worthwhile one. I would hope [...]

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Patching up the WAR

By Frank on October 2, 2008

So today was the first patch for EA Mythic’s Warhammer Online, patch 1.01. Today’s patch was all about bug fixes, from tab-targetting annoyances to UI tweaks to make the experience a little smoother. Now, I’d say that unlike the hordes and masses of people that might think that a bugfix patch is a bad thing [...]

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