Mythic Entertainment and EA have announced that, instead of only offering a 10 day free trial for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, they will begin offering an endless free trial. I guess EA wants to lure in new customers. This means that you can try and play Warhammer Online for free for as long as you want. In addition, if you ever had a 10 day free trial account, you can now use it again to play in the endless free trial.

There is now also a new Warhammer Online streaming endless trial client that will make it easier for people to begin playing the game. It’s still a pretty substantial download, since it’s larger than 1gb, but it’s smaller than it was before and streams additional required content while you play so you don’t need to download everything to play.

There has also been new content added to the free trial…

After a pretty lackluster literary performance, WAR seems to have hit a pleasing note in terms of the literature backing it up. Dark Storm Gathering, sequel to Empire in Chaos, made a lot of really interesting fixes that made the story a lot more compelling. Also, as an added gift, it’s written in a way where you don’t lose much if you pick this up without reading Empire in Chaos.

Valentine’s Day is quickly coming, but perhaps your loved one isn’t nearby. If you’re in the middle of a long distance love affair, it may be a good time to check out a free-to-play MMO, and take part in one of the special Valentine’s Day events to show your special someone just how much you care about him or her.

After all, nothing says devotion like staying at home, on your computer, for a minimum of two hours, all so you can complete certain objectives together and maybe earn some kind of special token that displays your feelings.

So let’s look at what some MMOs are up to…

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is going to be receiving its first expansion soon – in March, 2009, if you want to be specific. Call to Arms is going to be a free, live expansion that will be gradually rolled out thoughout March, April May and June, 2009.

The first portion of the Call to Arms expansion, called Call to Arms: Bitter Rivals, starts in March 2009. It introduces two new careers, a new event and a new realm versus realm (RvR) scenario. Players will be able to create Orc Choppas and Dwarf Slayers, take part in the Bitter Rival Live event or participate in the Twisting Tower scenario…

Following a successful launch earlier this year (September 18, 2008) Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) will receive its first official update “this winter” (2008) in the form of two new character classes: Empire’s Knight of the Blazing Sun and Dark Elf Black Guard.

A press release issued earlier this week (October 17, 2008) by Mythic Entertainment describes the Knights of the Blazing sun as…

Title: Empire in ChaosAuthor: Anthony ReynoldsPublisher: The Black LibraryRelease Date: Sept. 2008Price: $7.99Rating: Two thumbs sideways, 74/100, C, ** out of five.Pros: Quick pace, strong character development.Cons: The book is occasionally lacking in development of settings and events. Progression of events are brutally predictable and occasionally ends up more tiresome to read in its rough spots.Overall: If you’re going to buy the book wait a while for it to come to a used book store.

Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 usually have these incredible story lines that have very few flaws in the way they are delivered. The book Empire in Chaos, based on the MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, is not one of the higher notes of Warhammer lore.

Click through for the full review…

On September 18, 2008, the servers for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) went live in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories. Now that the game is out of the beta stage and is open for public consumption, players are invited to join in the mayhem.

WAR is the grim MMORPG version of a gothic world that has literally gone to Hell. Some parts of the world may have once been a paradise. However, wars between anyone who can fight and the forces of Chaos have essentially put the world on a path raging toward ruin.

As shown to those who participated in the beta version of WAR, it will be played like a mixture of..

When Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning comes out tomorrow (September 18, 2008), players will be able to play the Windows MMORPG with an Xbox 360 controller thanks to SwitchBlade. SwitchBlade is a free program from Blue Orb Inc. which allows owners of Xbox 360 controllers to use them to play games on their PCs.

To make things even easier, Blue Orb is offering a SwitchBlade for Warhammer Online download. This option comes with the buttons and controls already mapped to the Xbox 360 controller, so players can jump right in tomorrow. If you’re unhappy with the controls already set up in SwitchBlade for Warhammer Online, you can always change it to suit you. Its a small, 8.2mb download, and only requires Windows XP with service pack 2 (SP2), .NET 2.0 and DirectX…

You’ve got to hand it to EA for creating a presence at PAX. They had not just one but three booths on the floor, plus several others related to them. Here are the games they had on display, some more prominently than others…