brokentoys.org - 10/17/2008
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Seems like everyone’s talkin’ about Warhammer these days. Including, you know, those wacky guys who work on the most popular MMO ever made. Jeff Kaplan in particular had a few things to say :
Now that “Warhammer Online” has been out for almost a month, I wondered if Kaplan had ...
herald.warhammeronline.com - 10/17/2008
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herald.warhammeronline.com —
Folks, After over three years of work and
one of the smoothest launches in MMORPG history, WAR...
is moving quickly towards the end of its first month. This is a perfect time to take a look at where we were, where we are and where we are going. First, on ...
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State of The Game - Mark Jacobs
multiplayerblog.mtv.com - 10/16/2008
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multiplayerblog.mtv.com —
When I spoke with EA Mythic head Mark
Jacobs earlier this year about developing MMORPG “ Warhammer...
Online ,” it was inevitable that we talked about the competition — namely a little game called “ World of ...
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Allegedly Blocked From Beta, ‘World Of ...
gamesindustry.biz - 10/21/2008
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gamesindustry.biz —
Massively multiplayer online games, or MMOs, are a
growing market. People see Blizzard operating World of Warcraft...
and imagine bags of money and critical acclaim. Very few companies rise to the occasion of producing an MMO and fewer succeed in ...
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Blog Posts from "WAAAGH!" - Gameriot.com —
... I guess that day has come, because this week we’ve seen the gloves come off, the talk grow smack, and the words be trippin’. It’s a lengthy series of back-and-forth quotes and interviews between some of Blizzard’s devs and Mark Jacobs (which Broken Toys organizes for your reading pleasure), which I guess started when a Blizzard dev got a bit too smarmy about his competitor’s product, and Mark Jacobs, lovable mad uncle figure that he is, was not going to take that sitting down. Seeing as how a dance-off wasn’t possible due to ...
Mythic and Blizzard go at it. Round one review!
Hardcore Casual —
... Seems it did not take long for the gloves to come off, and for Mythic and Blizzard to go at it. Lum has a good collection of the relevant quotes (like him, I’m too lazy to gather them all, and since he has done so already, I’ll just Blizzard him and borrow here), but I would like to focus on the ...
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tobolds.blogspot.com 9/18/2008 — From Ardwulf's Lair I got the news that WAR shipped 1.5 million copies, twice as many as AoC. Not bad, assuming they don't remain unsold on shelves. In other news Blizzard announced that Wrath of the Lich King will be released on November 13 . Lots of ...
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