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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning News

  • EA posts $391 million loss, Madden 10 sells 3.9 million

    $788 million in earnings can't keep megapublisher out of the red; workforce slashed by 17%, development pipeline cut in half; Need for Speed Shift ships 2.5 million.

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    • Posted Nov 9, 2009 3:14 pm PT
  • EA cutting 1,500 jobs, over 'a dozen' games canceled

    [UPDATE 3] Publisher slashes staff by 17 percent to save $100 million annually, to focus on higher-margin titles; reductions at Skate, Madden, and Dante's Inferno devs; over one-third Mythic reportedly pink-slipped.

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    • Posted Nov 9, 2009 12:13 pm PT
  • Warhammer Online waging endless free trial

    EA and Mythic Entertainment replacing 10-day sampler with unlimited playtime, level-capped access to fantasy MMORPG.

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    • Posted Nov 6, 2009 11:53 am PT
  • PAX Game Design 101 panel stresses simplification

    Richard Garfield, Jeff Hickman, Tom Abernathy, and James Portnow lead Seattle-based show by parsing the fundamentals of sound ideation.

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    • Posted Sep 4, 2009 1:53 pm PT
  • Warhammer Online swinging to Mac

    Mythic Entertainment opening up PVP-focused fantasy MMOG to Apple-based gamers this fall, beta test now underway.

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    • Posted Jul 30, 2009 3:32 pm PT
  • BioWare veep details EA's MMO/RPG group

    Greg Zeschuk says Mythic will operate in a fashion similar to developer's Austin studio, studios were "already working side by side" before consolidation.

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    • Posted Jul 8, 2009 5:12 pm PT
  • Mythic boss departs as EA restructures MMO/RPG group

    Warhammer Online studio head Mark Jacobs replaced, as publisher names BioWare's Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk to lead newly formed division.

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    • Posted Jun 24, 2009 11:52 am PT
  • EA posts $1 billion annual loss

    [UPDATE] Madden publisher's earnings report shows huge fiscal year 2009 losses despite increased sales; Lord of the Rings: Conquest sells 1 million, Warhammer Online subscribers now 300,000.

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    • Posted May 5, 2009 2:07 pm PT
  • GDC 2009: Warhammer's Barnett pounds out game theory

    Mythic Entertainment creative director says design should come from one's experiences, not snake-oil books on how to make fun.

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    • Posted Mar 25, 2009 9:22 pm PT
  • US PC Charts Mar. 1-7: Empire wages Total War on retail

    Both standard and collector's edition of Creative Assembly's strategy title debut strong; Warhammer Online resurgent.

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    • Posted Mar 18, 2009 3:26 pm PT
  • Warhammer Online sheds 63 servers

    In war, there will be casualties. This week, Mythic Entertainment revealed the extent of those casualties, saying that 43 North American and 20 European Warhammer Online servers have been closed, following mandatory character transfers.While the server shutdowns could be construed as a negative...

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    • Posted Mar 11, 2009 4:18 pm PT
  • Axe drops at Warhammer dev as subs sink to 300K

    With MMORPG's subscriber base shrinking rapidly, Mark Jacobs confirms his studio is "resizing"; rumors put cuts at up to 130.

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    • Posted Feb 4, 2009 3:35 pm PT
  • EA suffers $641 million Q4 loss, increases layoffs to 11%

    Publisher posts disappointing holiday quarter, increases job cuts; game delays pull down full-year guidance to $4.2-$4.25 billion; Warhmmer OL subscribers drop to 300,000.

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    • Posted Feb 3, 2009 2:10 pm PT
  • Warhammer Online career roster expands

    Greenskin Choppa, Dwarf Slayer being introduced to Mythic's MMOG as part of live expansion event in March; new dungeon, official forums, free trial planned.

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    • Posted Jan 29, 2009 10:35 am PT
  • Little Big Planet tops AIAS noms

    Sony Europe's sandbox platformer receives 10 nods for 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, to be handed out Feb. 19 at the DICE Summit in Vegas.

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    • Posted Jan 23, 2009 3:09 pm PT
  • Mythic staff facing Reckoning?

    Source: See below. What we heard: Electronic Arts may be one of the biggest third-party publishers in the gaming industry, but that fact hasn't saved it from the worsening global economic crisis. Reporting on its financial performance during the July-September quarter in October, EA announced...

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    • Posted Jan 20, 2009 5:54 pm PT
  • Spore, Warhammer, other EA games Steam-ed

    Valve's downloadable game service welcomes a full slate of publisher's PC titles; Mass Effect, Need for Speed among new additions.

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    • Posted Dec 19, 2008 4:02 pm PT
  • EA lowers outlook, confirms cutbacks

    [UPDATE] Publisher slashes outlook following lower-than-expected holiday retails sales; indicates more layoffs, studio consolidation, SKU reductions.

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    • Posted Dec 9, 2008 1:41 pm PT
  • EA laying off 6% of workforce

    [UPDATE 2] Despite 40% jump in quarterly revenue, losses lead megapublisher to pink-slip more than 500 employees; Madden sells 4.5 million, Spore 2 million; Warhammer subscribers hit 800,000.

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    • Posted Oct 30, 2008 2:02 pm PT
  • LGF 08: EA UK chief: Embrace online or die

    Electronic Arts' UK chief urges the industry not to underestimate the importance of online; backs PEGI classification.

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    • Posted Oct 27, 2008 9:16 am PT
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