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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Where I live, a foot and a half of snow punctuated by snow drifts driven by 40 MPH winds tells me that Santa is on his way. I just hope I don’t freeze to death before I hear those sleigh bells. Here’s today’s news:
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Fallout 3 is doing pretty well on the Xbox 360 and PS3, but the game is doing particularly well on the PC charts where it has managed to land at the number one spot for the month of Oct., according to NPD Group. Fallout 3 managed to beat out Spore and a new Nancy Drew game, as well as Far Cry 2, Warhammer Online and the ever popular World of Warcraft Battle Chest. With the new world of Warcraft expansion hitting retail this month, Fallout 3 better enjoiy its time on the top of the hill..
Coming in at the number 2 spot for Oct. was Spore, followed by Nancy Drew The Haunting of Castle Malloy, Far Cry 2, and Warhammer Online. The Fallout 3 Collector’s Edition also managed to land at the number 8 spot, shoring up Bethesda’s number for the game even more. top ten after the break.
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If you have been enjoying Warhammer Online but longed for a true tank class, then your dreams are about to come true. Mythic Entertainment announced today that two new classes are on the way this winter to its popular MMO game. The two new career paths to be launched this winter include�
the Empire’s Knight of the Blazing Sun and the Dark Elf Black Guard. Mythic promises that these two new careers will do exactly what players are asking for: take as much punishment as they dish out.
The Knights of the Blazing Sun are devoted to the cult of Myrmidia, goddess of warfare and protector of civilization. These heroes specialize in Battlefield Commands, using applied tactical knowledge to outmaneuver their enemies (translation - they kick much ass). The Dark Elf Black Guard rely less on tactics or guile instead focusing on the power of hate and disdain, in serving the Witch King.
Expect to hear more on these classes in the weeks ahead.
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Mythic Entertainment today announced that 750,000 players have registered for the critically acclaimed fantasy MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories. WAR topped the PC sales charts around the world at launch, and is on track to be one of the best-selling PC games of 2008. While it is far from surpassing the juggernaut that is World of Warcraft, it has managed to garner its own fair share of subscribers and will continue to do so.
You can learn more about it by visiting www.warhammeronline.com. It should also be noted that Warhammer Online has landed in the number 2 spot on the PC sales charts in the United states for the week ending Sept. 27 - according to NPD’s sales data.
(+3 rating, 3 votes) Well now! There’s a fight brewing between the children of EA for the top spots on the PC gaming sales charts. EA’s newborn MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning took Spore out for the week ending Sept. 20, 2008. Poor, poor EA. WAR took the top spot for the week, followed by Spore, and WAR Collector’s Edition. No big shockers this week - though Stalker Clear: Sky - a standalone expansion of the original game by GSC Gameworld, broke in at number 9 for the week. EA and Activision Blizzard still control the board, with EA holding 7 of the top ten spots and Activision holding 2 spots with World of Warcaft.
Oh, and despite all the tough talk on DRM, Spore is still at the top of the list this week. Full list after the jump.
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In a Develop Magazine article, Mythic Entertainment CEO Mark Jacobs responded to criticism by IGDA chairperson Jennifer MacLean over not giving credit to some developers in Warhammer Online and some of its past games. Jacobs announced a new crediting policy that will properly credit those past and present Mythic employees who may have been left out by putting them online in a database. Manual and game credits will still be reserved for launch teams, but Mythic says it will go out of its way to disseminate omitted credits to credit and history website and the IGDA.
Jacobs admits that this was the right thing to do, but points out on his blog that he had been working on and talking about this topic well before the IGDA chair sent out an action alert about it in the August IGDA newsletter. After learning of this, MacLean apologized for jumping the gun.
This new policy is a step in the right direction for Mythic, but it’s hard to understand why they can’t, in the future add these extra names in the in-game credits. It’s not like two or three more scrolling pages are going to make a difference. That point aside, good for Mythic to take this bull by the horns.
An interesting side note to this story is a comment left by an anonymous poster who hinted that he or she had once worked at EA Chertsey and was not properly credited for several games:
“maybe EA Chertsey will do the same - I should be on the credits for Shogun: Mongol Invasion, Harry Potter: Chamber of secrets and I was more involved in 007 Nightfire, the Sims and Medal Of Honor than some of the folk that are on the credits…I am on the roll for for F1-2002, but I didnt get to go on the jolly to Silverstone - my boss and the sysadmin blagged that one. If I had known then…aint hindsight wonderful?”
Perhaps Mythic can drop a note to corporate and let them know that this policy should be adopted company-wide.
Source: Develop Magazine
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Mythic Entertainment announced that in the first week since launch over 500,000 new players have registered for its fantasy MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories.
“In just one week we have a half a million people playing WAR online, and the ranks of Order and Destruction are growing at a record-breaking pace for a new MMORPG,” said Mark Jacobs, co-founder and general manager of Mythic Entertainment.
I do not mean to bag on WAR, but that number seems mighty underwhelming. Age of Conan garnered 400,000 subscribers - a number that dramatically declined in the weeks that followed. No doubt WAR will have a better retention rate than AOC, but many expected it would have had a much stronger showing that it has managed. Mind you, 500,000 is a solid and respectable number, but EA has to really get behind this game and promote as hard - if not harder than - Blizzard has pushed World of Warcraft.
