Post ideas that we discarded (so far!)

We don’t write posts on every idea we have. Some of them just wouldn’t work, and we thought we’d share a few of the titles that didn’t make the cut. “What WAR can learn from Mamma Mia/Lost/BSG” “Confessions of a Witch Hunter” “Griefing: A Guide for Beginners” “Dress-Your-Own Paul Barnett” “50 Ways to Leave Your [...]

Living with the NDA

As you can probably guess from the subject line, we’re playing the beta at the moment. (OK, not precisely at this moment, although I may try to write a blog post next time we’re in game and see how long it takes Arb to notice.) I have a much better understanding now of why some [...]

GOA website

Edit: Ok, the website maintenance has been postponed, so this is a little defunct! There’s been a ton of discussion about the GOA website and its use of Flash and how many users would rather it was more like the Mythic one. Community Managers have continued to insist it’s a work in progress, which is good [...]

For Dan O’Halloran @ Massively

Dan had a hands on with the WAR beta at Comicon. And he’s riled a few people up by commenting that: WAR strikes me as WoW mechanics wrapped in different lore plus a couple of new features. I don’t personally see the issue with a gamer comparing a new game he tries with other games [...]

Links

Ardua gives a cool timeline of Warhammer Online development in his quest to summon up a little patience. Iain Compton, English Community Manager known to many as IainC (that’s the beauty of pseudonyms, right there!) gives an interview over at MMOhell. It’s a great and insightful interview and we’d just like to note we don’t [...]

Solo, duo, small group, big group

I’ve talked before about how part of the popularity of MMO’s is that they offer content for lots of different playing styles. This idea of playing style extends to group size. We know solo play is popular — sometimes people just want to hang out but without actually hanging out, and they still want to [...]

September 23rd?

So by now you’ll all probably have read the heavy speculation about September 23rd being the release date. It’s been reported all over the place, mainly because the EA site in Singapore gave that date. We’re bound to find out for sure whether this is the plan or not, it’s plausible but there’s still the [...]

In at the beginning

I went to see The Dark Knight last Friday, which was the day it opened here. I’m not going to review it here although it was an awesome film (if you like that sort of thing) and I expect to see Oscars heading that way next year. Going to see a big film on its [...]

Introducing.. the Shadow Warrior

Guest post from Comic-Con

A friend of mine’s over at Comic-Con at the moment, and of course, I asked him to look into the Warhammer Online stuff for us (hopefully not too traumatic as he does like MMORPGs!!). This is his first report from the show, and I thought I’d quote it verbatim for you. Warhammer First Impressions… by [...]