I know that like me, many of you have been waiting and waiting and waiting for WAR to come out. Well, rest assured that Warhammer now has a release date!

Warhammer Online will be released on September 18th 2008

It feels closer than ever and anticipation is only going to get greater. Along with the released date, monthly prices were announced

* Monthly Subscription: $14.99 USD
* 3-Month Subscription: $41.97 ($13.99 per month)
* 6-Month Subscription: $77.94 ($12.99 per month)

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Along with this huge bit o' news we get the news that those that pre ordered and get into open beta will be able to download the open beta files and client August 15th. No word on when the OB servers will be open.

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So hopefully we will be playing the Open Beta by next Saturday and we'll see if WAR really lives up to our expectations.

If you're like me, you've been eating up every bit of information given, and waiting impatiently for Warhammer Online. Even after they announced that they're cutting 4 capital cities and 4 classes I didn't falter from my love of this game. I still can't wait for the inevitable epic keep battles and city sieges. But I wasn't sure if my computer could run it, or if it would be a complete mess like AoC.


Blood for the Blood God!

But my worries have been laid to rest as the specs have been revealed and they're not ridiculous at all. Upcoming Copy Pasta

PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For Windows XP

· 2.5 GHz P4 (single core) processor or equivalent
· 1 Gigabyte RAM
· A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
· At least 15 GB of hard drive space

For Windows VISTA

· 2.5 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
· 2 Gigabyte RAM
· A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
· At least 15 GB of hard drive space

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon(TM) series

· 9500, 9600, 9800
· X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
· X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
· 2400, 2600, 2900,
· 3650, 3850, 3870
· 4850, 4870

NVIDIA GeForce series

· FX 5900, FX 5950
· 6600, 6800,
· 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
· 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
· 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
· GTX 260, GTX 280

Intel(R) Extreme Graphics

· GMA X4500

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.

Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn’t listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.

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With more and more solid news coming out, we can only hope this means the open beta is coming soon, and soon after that, release. Until then, WAAAAAGH!

First up in this post we have Electoral Kombat from the webcomic Dueling Analogs in which I would totally fucking buy this game rather than that crap DC crossover.

PICTURE OVALOAD

Secondly and finally cause' I gotta sleep after hitting Blindside Dork with my axe in TF2 all night is a video from CollegeHumor titled Rejected Wii Games.



Bus Pervert sounds like gold. Nintendo should really pick up on what the kids want these days.

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Destructoid's very own Aaron Linde posts the news at Shacknews that Valve has been working on the new content that the pc has for the xbox 360. Which, for those of us that play on the 360 is amazing news.


Consoles need love too.

Valve's Doug Lombardi states "What we've been waiting for is until we had a critical mass of new content to put out." Lombardi makes a great point, in that, the console version won't get nickled and dimed to death for additionally content, and plus, they might not even charge for it all, as the medic achievements affect gameplay.


The PS3 May never get this

In the article it states that Valve is working on the PC and 360 versions internally but the PS3 version was outsourced to EA UK. Lombardi states about the PS3 content "So we feel like we're kind of there now. We'll probably be making some announcements pretty soon on what will happen with the 360 stuff. I don't know that--unfortunately I don't know that any of that will make it to the PS3."

I despise April Fools Day, but there is some creativity to some of the things created. Although it's just for April Fools day, this chain lock is suweet.



If you want an impossible door chain, get the Defendius today!

-via engadget



And for the steampunk fans we have a strange looking helmet that was first bought at Disney World by "pogo*the*clown" and "steampunked out" for a measly $41.00 on ebay. While I personally find it goofy looking as hell, somebody probably likes it.

Throughout the days, many o' xbox gamer have shipped their best friends out in a cardboard coffin. There are stories behind every xbox, from refurbished ugly xboxes, to month long ship back times. But this story is saddening and a bit disturbing.

The gamer named "Nathaniel" shipped off his RROD xbox to the heartless bastards at MS with hope in his heart that they would fix and ship back his special buddy.

http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2008/02/28/another-gamer-screwed-by-microsoft/

I personally didn't have much to say about MS after I shipped my xbox, except for thanks for the new faceplate on the refurbished machine! (I broke my first faceplate and removed it before I sent it in got a new faceplate on the xbox.) All I can really say about this is it's pretty ridiculous that they would destroy a piece of artwork that was customized onto the xbox. I'm not sure if Nathaniel necessarily should get paid for his losses, but MS owes him something.