Postcard from Praag. Wish you were here?

Wotcha everyone, For those who have not seen it previously, welcome to Martyr Square, in Praag.  It’s hard to get in one screenshot, but it’s about the largest single space in Praag, and is almost slap bang in the middle of the zone slap bang in the middle of Tier 4.  For all you lore/role-playing [...]

Directions needed

After a long discussion with my LotRO guildmates over the female sense of direction yesterday, it particularly pleased me when a member of my WAR guild pointed me at this remarkable Atlas of WAR. I like maps, I especially like that you can turn off all the points of interest so if you don’t want things [...]

A week in IM chats

Starting what might become a regular insight into our lives and conversations, I bring you a summary of some of our IM chats over the past couple of weeks. It’s only from two separate days, so hopefully in the future there will be more diversity! (6:16:32 AM) Spinks: btw, can you talk to tupp when [...]

Tinker, Tailor, Shaman … Witch Hunter?

Wotcha everyone, Just so you all know, I’m just having a lovely brew, and having a cogitate about what to do in the open beta phase. Should I just use Open Beta as a dry run for release?  Should I create a Warrior Priest and level up? Should I create a class I wouldn’t normally [...]

Have HMV got it all wrong?

We spent a while in the early days of the blog pondering when Play.com would send out their CE pre-order codes, and kind of wishing we’d gone to an HMV store and picked up the pre-order box there. It now seems that HMV are having issues with the way they handled the pre-order programme. Right from [...]

Links labours lost

The Economist reckons that Google’s Lively was a flop. I know I haven’t been back to it after the first excitement of playing with virtual lava lamps, there are easier ways to chat. Bruce Everiss also comments on this and discusses other ways Google could extend its business model. The sixth guild highlights is now up on [...]

Headstarts dated & other answers

Collector’s Edition pre-order – 14th September (during Games Day *coff*) Standard Edition pre-order  – 15th September You can read all the details on GOA’s website. How we love saying that last sentence! And, as if that’s not enough, there’s also some answers to technical questions (like using your own torrent client, the file size) and [...]

The Ballad of Breakin’ Iron

I was reading Snafzg’s excellent summary of the latest what-class-do-you-want-to-play poll at WHA (currently almost 5000 people have voted which gives a pretty awesome poll size). What really stood out for me were how the numbers had changed since the last time they did a career poll. One of the big differences between this career [...]

Bye bye freedom

So Warhammer Online has gone gold, and the open beta will be with us on 7th Sept – the client is up and ready for download!. That gives me.. a couple of weeks left of ‘freedom’, and I don’t know about you, but I actually have a plan this time on how to get things [...]

Open Beta Download available for EU

Yup, the open beta download is available via the EU website. Closed Beta testers don’t need to re-download the client, we can just patch our installs up as per normal. Set all phasers to lag. And thanks Fiale for the heads up.