GOA has announced a free ten-day trial for Warhammer Online. The announcement was made today to allow new players to experience the first phase of the Call To Arms events, Bitter Rivals. "With the new free trial we are making it possible for everyone to experience non-stop Realm vs. Realm combat wrapped up in a next-generation MMO,” said Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager of Warhammer developer, Mythic Entertainment. To sign up for your free trial follow go to www.war-europe.com/trywar, download the client ...

Publisher GOA has announced the first live expansion for Warhammer Online. It's called 'Call To Arms' and introduces several new features, significantly two new classes: the updated and re-instated melee Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer, for Chaos and Order respectively. There will be an new contested area too, called the 'Land Of The Dead', with the 'Tomb Kings' dungeon that developer Mythic says is a spiritual successor to Darkness Falls from Dark Age Of Camelot. The  expansion will be a freely available download next ...

China has levied a 20 per cent personal income tax on all virtual currencies. It specifically targets all those that profit from the redistribution of virtual currencies, with officials being able to determine the value of the virtual currency if an individual fails to prove the original price. This will affect those that redistribute currencies for web portals and messaging services as well games. The repercussions in the Western world will prove very interesting: China is the infamous host to a large majority of almost untouchable MMO gold farmers. This ...

It's the day before Halloween and while some of you will be experiencing the delights of an excruciating Fallout 3 download session, or the wait for retail tomorrow, MMO gamers like myself will already be enjoying the in-game festivities of several leading MMOs. Let's take a brief look at what's on offer… World Of Warcraft: It's not like Blizzard likes to brag or anything, but it recently announced that WOW has hit 11 million subscribers. Laid on for its metropolis of ...

Mythic Entertainment has now banned in excess of 10,000 accounts for its recently released MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning. These accounts aren't your garden variety MMO gamers, though: these belonged to gold farmers, widely regarded as spammer scumbags by honest gamers and despised by MMO developers for breaching intellectual property rights and the T&Cs of the game. The figure currently stands at 10,578 accounts banned – which pretty much equates to sticking heads on poles as a stern warning to the ...

GOA, EA and Mythic Studios have announced that the open beta for Warhammer Online: Age OF Reckoning will begin on 7 September. Fans of the highly anticipated MMO will be able to enter the European open beta by pre-ordering WAR and going to the GOA account centre or visiting the EA Store to sign up for a limited number of spots. GOA also announced on the official forum that they have lifted the NDA for all players in the current closed beta phase of ...