Da Newz – June 5
June 5, 2008
Beta Ticker: 720,380 (up +20,125 from last week)
Quote of the Week: “We’re sort of winking at you, you know? We’re saying ‘oh, we know what you’re going to do.’” ~ Carrie Gouskos on the Tome of Knowledge
Story of the Week: Massively visits Mythic. Michael Zenke just became the most envied person in the Warhammer world, as he was invited into EA Mythic to conduct numerous interviews, play testing and investigations into WAR. A week later, and we have 15 (!) articles for his work. Here they are:
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Your Questions”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Jeff Hickman’s View of Warhammer Online”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Emotions behind the Tome of Knowledge”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Interview with Senior Designer Dan Enright”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Insights into Warhammer’s crafting system”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: How to Conquer a Capital City”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Exploring Warhammer’s Capital Cities”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Everything You Need To Know About Guilds”
- “From Tabletop to Desktop: WAR’s Destruction Careers”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: The Early Days of Mythic Entertainment”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Spotlight on the Goblin Shaman”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Spotlight on the Dwarf Engineer”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Spotlight on the Chaos Marauder”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: Every Warhammer Class Explained”
- “Massively Goes To WAR: How you get your public quest loot”
- Finally, you can look over all the screenshots used in the Massively Goes to WAR gallery.
In Other News:
- /random is frustrated by the bounds of the Warhammer NDA, but I think you can read around
the lines to know he’s excited about the game. - Another week, another great Forum Watch, brought to you by The Greenskin!
- Australia now has 6,000 copies of the WAR Collector’s Edition on sale.
- A Q&A with Mark Jacobs at Venture Beat – it’s a really insightful interview that doesn’t just rehash over the same-old, same-old.
- New dwarf art is available for your discerning tastes at Warhammer Vault.
- Keen’s Korner – “Crafting a new way of Crafting”. See what he did there? I did!
- Book of Grudges asks the question we’ve all wondered: “Is PvP really just for the hardcore?”
- WAR Europe has a neat section on the website entitled “Fan Tales” for beta players to post stories.
- Josh Drescher is a nerd.
- WAR-RvR.net is taking questions about the White Lion career for next month’s grab bag — so go dump your mind there.
- Warhammer Geek’s latest parody is a subject near and dear to many a heart: “CyberSex Mistell”.
- Warhammer Vault continues to impress us with two new wallpapers: a Greenskins and White Lion throw rug!
- The Tome of WAR — a Warhammer Online mod/addon site — is in the making, and the creators want to share their vision and get feedback on this WHA thread.
- Josh Drescher gets personal. Oh yeah baby. Oh yeahhhh.
- There’s a new Warhammer novel that’s being released online, and you can read it as its published, chapter by chapter!
- Art director Greg Grimsby popped by the WHA forums to explain how the dwarfs ended up with the gyro-harness mount.
- RadarX over at TTH evaluates whether or not the $80 Collector’s Edition is worth it.
- There’s a really cool — freezer burn cool — review of WAR from the NY Comic Con. Methinks the guy liked it!
- This doesn’t have so much to do with WAR as it does MMO development as a whole, but I love this article over at Eating Bees like I love my non-existent children.
- Mania’s Arcania, a WoW Hunter Pet blog, has written up a piece on WAR’s White Lion class. Cheeky!
- Book of Grudges reports that Play.com has apparently sold out of the WAR CE.
- Warhammer Conflict’s announced a pair of new features: Richest Members and Sudoku!
- And then they had to go and add Conflict Pets just to mess my little duo news tidbit up.
- Should you update your Dxdiag file if you change your system and want to get into closed beta? A WAR dev answers the question here.
- Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen — the newest Greenskin Forum Watch is here!
- Mugs up, ale down! A new dwarf blog is on the scene: The Cogworks!
- Three new crafting screenshots are now available at TTH, which come from the new crafting interview with Mark Jacobs. I’m lovin’ it!
- Book of Grudges chews on the new Engineer info.
- Jeff Hickman popped onto the WHA forums to calm some minds over large-scale RvR.
- The Cogworks has the latest Engineer News for you to digest.
- Hardcore Casual mulls over whether WAR will be a serious threat to WoW or… not.
- TTH has a recap of all the crafting info we’ve been handed.
- “That’s WAR!”, a new Warhammer podcast is available — if you can understand German, that is.
- “Warhammer Online: End Game” over at GameZig discusses the much-anticipated massive PvP bouts.
- Another one hooked: “Warhammer Online: My interest unlocked”
- Warhammer Conflict has another Guild Chat Event this weekend — get wooed by WAR guilds!
- James Nichols clarified how you use your Amazon pre-order codes.
- New Secret Life of Mobs comic: “Skaven Army”
- Over at Video Game Theory, they muse about how WAR’s guilds will outlast other MMO guilds by a long shot.
Syp
Thanks for the plug. Coming from a great W:AR blog as this, it’s a great plug for a small time blogger as my self.
Also, thanks for all the other links, now I have plenty to read while avoiding the work load today….
It has been a huge news week!
I have been inspired by these great bloggs to start my own. A lot of my friends are leaving WoW for WAR and it is great way to keep in touch with them. I have emailed them all several WAR websites and bloggs to get their juices flowing for the summer. So, if you see a bunch of new comments they might be from my circle. Keep up the great work. I am just finding out how much work it really is to keep friends up to date with WAR news and setting up a blog. This is a lot great info thanks!!
Great job =D
Wow, this must take you a while, but it’s awesomely useful
Wow, what a crapload of info. Massively is certainly going nuts lately with WAR stuff. Keep up the good posting and linkage.
I do it a little at a time, every day. I think each week it gets a bit smoother, but next week I’m planning on making some tweaks to the format. Thanks for the support!
Hey Syp, thanks for the link love. Been getting people visiting my site from yours and at least a few have gone to yours too.. good stuff.
If you need any advice on your blog layout, let me know if I can help, I’ve been doing quite a bit with mine and it’s also wordpress at GameZig.com. If you’ll notice I’ve got some pretty cool things going on like rotating header images and such, would be glad to share any tips with you.
@Blackdfl – thanks, I might take you up on that!
Thanks for the plug, stay tuned for more theories