MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood had the chance recently to sit down and speak with the folks from Mythic Entertainment about yesterday's update 1.1 and specifically about the changes that were made to the Open RvR system. In this interview, the team discusses the changes, ORvR vs. scenarios, their intentions for feature balance and more. Patch 1.1a, the biggest update to Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning since the game's launch back in September, has made a number of additions to the game, including: the introduction of two of the four classes that didn't make the cut at the game's original launch, new open RvR rewards, scaled difficulty public quests, and quite a bit more. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to sit down with a number of de ...

Mythic Entertainment has published the patch notes for the 1.1a patch for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Quests and Public Quests * A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Players will now receive proper credit for the quest condition when firing the Eagle Claw. Realm vs. Realm * The focal point of our new Open RvR Influence system is mortal combat between players of enemy realms. In order to ensure that player-versus-player battles provide the best source of Influence in the Open RvR areas, we have adjusted the amount of Influence associated with capturing Battlefield Objectives, Keeps, and Fortresses. We have only adjusted the values for offense, i.e. capturing an Objective. The values for defending an Objective will remain, in order to encourage players to reap the benefits of ...

Turbine has published a new dev journal which takes a look at the Foundations of Stone in Lord of the Rings Online: The Mines of Moria. This deepest region of Moria is a shadowy abyss, a chilling, vast, and strange place made of twisted stones, woeful waters, and creeping fog. Horrifying monsters haunt these dark cracks in the earth, lurking amid swollen and glowing mushrooms, hiding in the shadows beneath strange arches and spurs of living rock. Down here, as far from sun and sky as it may be possible to get in Middle-earth, the screams of agonized heroes echo far and wide.and still go unheard. Do not abandon hope when you enter here. Hope may be your only protection against the strange perils of this land. Into the Deep Place The Foundations of Stone are so called because they make u ...

Turbine has posted an overview of The Twenty-first Hall on the Seventh Level of the mines of Moria. The Twenty-first Hall of Khazad-dûm lies on the Seventh Level of Moria, leading away in many directions including toward the Second Hall and the Bridge of Khazad-dûm. Off to one side, a passage leads to the Chamber of Mazarbul, the dwarves'' hall of records, though it passes now for the tomb of Balin, son of Fundin. The Twenty-first Hall was once a mustering hall, but has lain empty since the fall of Moria - though recent stirrings may change that. Recently, the Balrog of Moria came to the Twenty-first Hall seeking the first true challenge to his power since the deaths of Durin and his son Náin. Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings will recall that the Company of the Ring cam ...

Mythic Entertainment has announced that the Knight of the Blazing Sun and the Black Guard careers are now live.All servers will be brought offline today as we release the Knight of the Blazing Sun and the Black Guard to all players!   Starting at 9AM EST North American servers will brought down with Oceanic servers to follow at 10:30AM EST. We anticipate all servers to be back online by 12 Noon EST with the North American servers coming up shortly before Oceanic.

CCP has announced that they will be giving EVE players an early Christmas gift this year in the form of a performance enhancing patch. Every year the players ask "CCP, what are you giving us for Christmas?" This year we are giving you the gift of the Christmas Performance Patch which contains a massive boost to both large fleet and small gang engagements as well as much improved game play for every player in New Eden. Focusing on improvements to the Need for Speed initative, this very special patch streamlines performance to significantly increase frames per second (fps) and makes improvements to the patching process to allow for a smoother patching performance in general. Players who participated in the testing on Singularity have noticed much improved playability and performance. In o ...

MMORPG.com World of Warcraft Correspondent Robert Duckworth writes this overview of the Winter Veil Christmas event in Blizzard's World of Warcraft. The Feast of Winter Veil is coming soon, beginning on the 15th of December to be exact. "Santa" (Greatfather Winter) will once again be loitering around Orgrimmar and Ironforge while ordering up loads of gingerbread cookies in exchange for small presents. Metzen will find himself captured and held for ransom yet again by two different hostage takers at the same time. And that abominable snowman, rampaging through the silence of the Alterac Mountains with his stolen horde of Smokywood Pastures' treats that must be recovered at any cost.

MMORPG.com World of Warcraft Correspondent Marie Brazeil writes this voerview of the Death Knight hero class in Blizzard's World of Warcraft. I know for a fact that a lot of WoW subscribers had stopped playing a good while before the launch of The Wrath of the Lich King expansion. I was actually one of them! I had grown very tired of the guild drama and silly mistakes while taking down Akil'zon (the eagle boss) in Zul'Aman. And eventually I just decided to try other things. Warhammer was just coming out at the time and I hopped over for a couple of months. But eventually, the call of Warcraft started to seep into my being and as the launch of the new expansion neared, I found I couldn't resist the urge to finally play a new class in WoW, the Death Knight. Now please understand ...

Because who has not watched Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Swartzanager (last name is hard :(. ) and not laughed after he puches the camel?! Who has not wanted to be tottaly ripped and cut people in half? I certianly think they had all the right ideas for the game, it was really revolutionary, but it was done in by its compilation, or how it was all put together. The director (thank god hes gone) was a good idealist, just not a good... director. The grafics were good, the gameplay was not. The lore was good, the bugs.. were not. The classes though unblanced were good, but the armor, and items for those classes were not. They fired that guy though, i logged in just yesterday and found that i was able to PvP (kinda) There were not that many bugs left (kinda) and that there were ...

A game I was lucky enough to get on the 1st Tech test. I tested the game each Sunday and downloaded new stuff each time. I spend hours and hours trying to get the buggy buggy alfa running on my PC and I was successful most of the time. But this was hard work. This was a game I dedicated more time to then any game in years.   I was then invited into the closed and then open betas. Where I, among many many loyal fans, dedicated many hours to logging bugs, exploits, crashed, etc. Personally I logged well over 300 bugs during the various test phases and I am quite sure that many more people logged simular numbers or many more. The game went life and I went in whole heartedly. Doing more testing, reporting more bugs. Helping more players and helping friends. Levelling and enjo ...