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Players who are interested in the Warhammer fantasy setting and already have an account for the MMO Age of Reckoning that Mythic Entertainment created will be able to get a bonus of 50 percent for both the experience and the bonus earned in the new Wrath of Heroes.
In order to be eligible for the serious increase in... |
20 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning might have launched with high hopes and talk of World of Warcraft slaying, but since then the game has lost players and seemed to be destined to be turned into a free-to-play project to get increase gamer numbers. At the GDC Online event Eugene Evans, who is the leader of the Mythi... |
14 October 2011
02:51 GMT |
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The press conference that publisher Electronic Arts held in Cologne at the Gamescom 2011 trade show sought to promote upcoming launches like Need for Speed: The Run and Battlefield 3 more than announce important new games.
But the company also talked about some new properties and one of the more interesting ones i... |
17 August 2011
03:50 GMT |
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A blogger who claims that he has been working at the Mythic division of BioWare has made some significant claims about the failures of Warhammer Online and about the money that Electronic Arts has so far spent on the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.The EA Louse blog claims that he is part of a number of developers wh... |
14 October 2010
04:38 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment has announced that Warhammer Online is nearing its two year anniversary, with some rewards coming for those players who have kept their commitment to the game going for the entire time.The official post on the company's site begins with an in world introduction, saying, “The sounds of ... |
24 September 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning was set to be one of the most innovative MMOs of the decade, based on a well known franchise and backed by a powerful publisher in Electronic Arts. The game did quite well when it came out, managing to sell more than 1.2 million boxed copies in its first month about and seeing subsc... |
5 August 2010
13:31 GMT |
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BioWare Mythic would never introduce something similar to Blizzard's Real ID service to Warhammer Online, according to producer Carrie Gouskos. Real ID is a service that requires its users to log in to Battle.net using their real names. This was almost imposed by Blizzard on its forums, but aggressive fan backla... |
26 July 2010
11:31 GMT |
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As we reported at the beginning of the week, Electronic Arts changed the name of Mythic Entertainment to BioWare Mythic. Furthermore, EA officially announced that Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning's European publishing and operating rights would be turned over from GOA, the France Telecom subsidiary which h... |
8 July 2010
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Mythic Entertainment has been recently renamed BioWare Mythic by its owner, Electronic Arts. Mythic was already under BioWare's management after EA’s decision last year to merge the two subsidiaries in one big massively multiplayer online/ role playing game division under the leadership of BioWare co-found... |
5 July 2010
14:21 GMT |
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The two massively multiplayer online role-playing games to have been released in 2008 were Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Last year, the MMORPG market also saw the launch of the Wrath of the Lich King, the expansion for World of Warc... |
12 November 2009
05:23 GMT |
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A lot of massively multiplayer online role-playing games have tried all sorts of new ideas to promote themselves. It's time for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning to seek to bring new players and it has managed to come up with a pretty decent and tempting offer. The ten-day free trial the MMORPG has had up until... |
9 November 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that the MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning should get a special Halloween event, which is set to run from October 23 to November 2 and will offer players a chance to experience fresh quests, get into a new Realm vs. Rea... |
19 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment, the developer of Warhammer Online, is announcing a variety of events and fresh content meant to mark the one-year anniversary of its MMO. The celebrations are set to begin on September 1 and will try to get new players into the MMO that launched with some innovative features, like public quests ... |
24 August 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment has confirmed that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) is heading to Mac OS X. A beta version of the Mac client is now available to both existing WAR account holders as well as to new players. The 10-day trial version of WAR is available for free download right here on Softpedia. The Mac ve... |
11 August 2009
09:18 GMT |
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The Call to Arms expansion for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is complete with the Land of the Dead dungeon zone now open to all players of the MMO. The desert area of Nehekhara is home to dangerous enemies, most of the them straddling the space between life and death.There are new Public Quests that can be joine... |
25 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment, the creator of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, is announcing a new initiative designed to bring back old players of the MMO who have left the game in order to pursue greener online pastures. The developer is saying that those who are interested in re-activating their accounts will get a host... |
13 March 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment, the creator of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, published by Electronic Arts, has announced that it plans to offer a 10-day trial period for its game, designed to allow all those interested in the setting and in the mechanics of the MMO to experience all the excitement that can be offered by ... |
6 March 2009
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Mythic Entertainment is promoting a new event for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the MMO using the dark fantasy setting created by Games Workshop.Bitter Rivals runs until March 10 and offers all those players who are active in the game a chance to get their hands on some cool in game rewards, while also unlockin... |
5 March 2009
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One of the most important men at Cryptic, Bill Roper, says that there are problems with the expectations that people have regarding Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the MMO developed by Mythic Entertainment.Roper talked to MTV Multiplayer and said that “I hear half the people are saying, 'Oh gosh, Warha... |
24 February 2009
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This week, the test servers for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning are said to receive the 1.2 patch for the MMO, with Mythic Entertainment aiming to offer the patch to all players sometime in March.Mark Jacobs posted in the official forums of the game in order to detail the patch and dubbed it “the Bugs, Caree... |
11 February 2009
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LittleBigPlanet is getting a free and cute Valentine's Day package to celebrate love and friendship, but Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the MMO developed by Mythic Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, is having none of it. Even as in the real world pretty things dominate, the MMO is preparing to ... |
5 February 2009
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Video games have always been blamed for bad things, from teaching children that violence is fun, to giving them hints on how to commit crimes or how to kill other people. Various anti-game representatives like Jack Thompson have protested against them and asked the governments of various countries to take action agai... |
5 February 2009
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Electronic Arts has just reported a third quarter loss for fiscal 2008 of 641 million dollars. This is way more than in the same period of 2007, when the loss was of just 33 million. The third fiscal quarter ends on December 31 and comprises the crucial Christmas shopping season, when many videogame publishers releas... |
4 February 2009
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The online gaming scene is starting to become bigger and bigger in these very tough times, when game developers are beginning to feel the negative influence of the recession on their retail sales. People are starting to move away from games that can only be played once, and are heading towards titles that can be play... |
30 January 2009
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The economic recession is starting to take its toll on all branches of the entertainment industry, games not being spared. We have recently seen that a lot of independent game studios have been experiencing very tough situations, with Factor 5 or Free Radical already approaching their own demise. The crisis hasn... |
21 January 2009
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Electronic Arts has announced plans to restructure its business in order to reduce spending, while taking care not to limit the quality of its games. Well, taking a look at the latest round of layoffs reported by the gaming-oriented media, it seems that they will hit two prominent developing studios.Joystiq clearly s... |
21 January 2009
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The people over at Mythic Entertainment, who are developing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the MMO published by Electronic Arts, are hinting that their next patch 1.1.1 will include a lot of new content, part of which appears to consist of a new playable class, that of Dwarf Slayer.The Keen and Graev gaming blog... |
20 January 2009
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Mythic Entertainment, the developer of Warhammer Online, announces that they plan to introduce a unique holiday event for their MMO, in response to the fact that their biggest rival, World of Warcraft from Blizzard, has been holding something akin to Christmas festivities under the name of Feast of Winter’s Vei... |
16 December 2008
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In the field of PC exclusive RTS (Real Time Strategy) games, there are not a lot of prominent titles, basically because most of them try to recreate elements of mechanics found in the previous ones and market them as innovative. But a few franchises, such as Starcraft, Command & Conquer and Age of Empires or Warhamme... |
16 December 2008
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When Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the MMO created by Mythic Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, was launched, a lot of people called it the World of Warcraft killer. But even if the game reported getting more than 750.000 subscribers, the release of Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion for ... |
10 December 2008
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Mythic Entertainment, together with Electronic Arts and The Black Library, which is a division of Games Workshop, say that they plan to release a new novel related to Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The book will be called Dark Storm Gathering and is set to arrive sometime in the spring of 2009. It's the sec... |
3 December 2008
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The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is a very tough one, dominated by Blizzard Entertainment's hugely popular World of Warcraft. This game holds over 65% of the market, and, although other titles have appeared, like Age of Conan or Warhammer Online, it still maintained its populari... |
7 November 2008
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The State Administration of Taxation in China is announcing that it plans to impose a 20% personal income tax on the profit made from virtual currency. Most people affected by the new tax will be those who buy or hoard virtual currency in order to later sell it to make a profit. This group of people is usually label... |
5 November 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has released information during its recent financial results unveiling that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has reached 800,000 current players, who have accounts registered and are active in the game world. The MMO grew by 50,000 active players in the month of October and a similar growth is expec... |
4 November 2008
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Jumping on the bandwagon of Halloween related events, which already includes zombie action in games like Grand Theft Auto IV, World of Warcraft and City of Heroes/City of Villains, the developers of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning are announcing a special manifestation related to the Witching Night, when the lines... |
30 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Warhammer Online is one of the most exciting and successful gaming stories out there. Although nobody believed in the project, saying that Warhammer was best left alone in the RPG (Role Playing Game) format, the team at Mythic Entertainment decided to go online and create this very popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplay... |
24 October 2008
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Mythic Entertainment, the developers of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, are delivering the biggest update of the game yet in December. The 1.1 patch will be offering a lot of new content and, of course, fixes for the people who got into the Warhammer themed MMO.Two fresh character classes will be added. The Dark ... |
22 October 2008
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The MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, market is definitely a tough one, with World of Warcraft being the dominant title (having over 11 million subscribers) that all the other games are trying to beat. There have been titles announced as the ones that would dethrone WoW but none of them manag... |
20 October 2008
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is doing well, managing to get more than 750,000 subscribers in less than a month since the official launch. Most of the threads regarding the MMO, both official and unofficial, are positive and the game is shaping up to be a good challenger for World of Warcraft, the dominant MMO a... |
16 October 2008
03:26 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment, the developer of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, are now announcing that the game has more than 750,000 registered subscribers, coming from North America, Europe and Australia.Mark Jacobs, co-founder of the company and general manager of the game, says that “Thanks to our players, the ... |
13 October 2008
05:45 GMT |
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You know one MMO has hit trouble when it announces that it plans to merge servers. Funcom, the developer and operator of Age of Conan: Hyperborian Adventures announces that it plans to merge some of its game servers in an effort to create “healthy” player populations required to make the game progress in ... |
30 September 2008
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An analyst says that Electronic Arts is targeting to get “around 250,000 subscribers” for the Mythic developed Warhammer Online. He believes that the subscription numbers are set for a substantial drop after the initial month of free playing time expires at the middle of October for most of the people who... |
29 September 2008
18:21 GMT |
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The guys at Mythic Entertainment are really happy these days. After releasing their first MMORPG (Massively Multyplayer Online Role Playing Game) that was based in the Warhammer universe, the sales are extremely good. So good, that in just a week since launch, over 500,000 players have created accounts for the game.H... |
29 September 2008
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On the Internet, no one can hear you scream. But everyone can see someone “scream” by writing a text in All Caps. Mark Jacobs, one of the most important people behind Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, recently told the world “I HATE GOLD SELLERS WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING” on his blog.He w... |
25 September 2008
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I said on several occasions that Electronic Arts doesn't have a good reputation in the gaming world. The status of big game mogul doesn't really go well with small independent studios or average gamers. Such is the case with a lot of studios that are looking for publishers for their games; m... |
24 September 2008
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Sony Online Entertainment is preparing the release of another expansion for Everquest II, its long running MMO. It will be known as The Shadow Odyssey and it will be focused on adding some much needed high level content. The developers are planning 20 zones for the expansion, specifically for level 80 players.Leading... |
24 September 2008
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A lot of MMO players were disappointed when Mythic said that its upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning would deliver less content than initially planned. After all, it was supposed to take the crown from World of Warcraft and news of less content was not a good start.Mark Jacobs, the general manager of Mythic E... |
22 September 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment is sending word that its MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has now managed to ship more than 1.5 million game copies to retailers as it prepares for its worldwide release which takes place this week. Electronic Arts also says that the MMO has generated the highest number of pre-orders in the... |
17 September 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Mark Jacobs, who is the boss of Mythic Entertainment, developer of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has warned GOA, the European publisher and operator for the MMO, that the problems players are currently dealing with should be solved by the launch date, September 18.Jacobs quickly stated that “GOA messed up... |
10 September 2008
09:01 GMT |
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The MMO fans are eagerly awaiting to see what Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, from Mythic and Electronic Arts, plays like when it launches later in September. But there's another MMO launch that is being planned, which has received much less coverage and which could prove just as important in the long run.&n... |
4 September 2008
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