MMORPG.com World of Warcraft Correspondent Robert Duckworth writes this overview of the Eye of the Storm Battleground in Blizzard's World of Warcraft. Eye of the Storm(EotS) is the latest battleground to hit live servers (though the term "latest" is a bit relative, as it came out over a year ago). Heralded as the Outland battleground, the fight does in fact take place on a chunk of floating rock in outer space. If you fall off, you just keep falling. Sadly, EotS leaves the impression that it takes what was kind of fun and turns it into something that isn't very much fun at all. The general atmosphere of the battleground is depressing as well. Lots and lots of purple rock. Looking at: Eye of the Storm The best way to describe this battleground is to say it combines the nodes of Arath ...

Blizzard has published the final floor plan and schedule of events for this year's BlizzCon event. We've just released the final schedule and floor plan for BlizzCon. The schedule lists the locations and times for the major events that will take place during the convention, such as hands-on gaming, tournaments, contests, and of course the developer panels where Blizzard's game designers talk about the many aspects of making a great game. The floor plan will give you more information on the exact locations of this year's points of interest such as the stores, hands-on gaming stations, and more.

Blizzard has announced that they are holding a Question Contest where fans can send in questions to be answered at BlizzCon on the DIRECTV pay-per-view broadcast. Here''s your chance to participate in BlizzCon even if you aren''t able to be there in person. We''re now asking folks to submit their burning questions related to the Warcraft, StarCraft, or Diablo game universes. We''ll sort through them all and pick the best questions to be answered live during DIRECTV''s pay-per-view broadcast of BlizzCon 2008. If your question is selected, you''ll also receive an ATI graphics card and some exclusive BlizzCon merchandise. For submission information, contest rules, and a list of prizes, visit our contest page.

MMORPG.com Warhammer Online Correspondent Patrick Buckley writes this overview of the Dwarf Engineer career in Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The Dwarven Engineer is a versatile combatant. His techniques center around doing damage to multiple enemies with an effect that also damages over time. This is only the basic path of the engineer, but it can be specialized into three different, more precise paths upon reaching level eleven. At this point, a Dwarven Engineer has the opportunity to choose one of three paths to devote himself to. Or, he can mix it up and have limited mastery in all three paths. No matter which path is chosen, an engineer can choose to charge into battle with his wrench by his side, or stand behind the meat shields, lobbing deadly bullets ...

The folks at Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning have announced that Game Update 1.0.5, the largest update for the game thus far, is now on the public test server. Game Update 1.0.5 is coming and so begins our call to arms! All currently subscribed players will have the opportunity to experience and test everything that 1.0.5 has to offer, and most importantly provide us with their feedback and bug reports to make patch day even smoother when 1.0.5 arrives on live servers. In order to make testing even easier and better, and so that you can see how the changes impact you directly, all players will be able to copy their existing characters on the Live Servers to the Public Test Server. This game update is the biggest yet, and is the first time we've made significant changes to care ...

The folks at Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning have announced that Game Update 1.0.5, the largest update for the game thus far, is now on the public test server. Game Update 1.0.5 is coming and so begins our call to arms! All currently subscribed players will have the opportunity to experience and test everything that 1.0.5 has to offer, and most importantly provide us with their feedback and bug reports to make patch day even smoother when 1.0.5 arrives on live servers. In order to make testing even easier and better, and so that you can see how the changes impact you directly, all players will be able to copy their existing characters on the Live Servers to the Public Test Server. This game update is the biggest yet, and is the first time we've made significant changes to care ...

Mythic entertainment has posted another round of fixes for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Capital Cities * The entrance requirements to the officer rooms in both guild taverns have been adjusted. You must now be an officer or the leader of a rank 16 guild or higher to enter. Combat and Careers Bright Wizard * Scintillating Energy: Fixed an issue that was causing the stun component of this ability not to function. Content * Chests located in Dark Elf chapter 14 will no longer try to attack players. * Silversong Bladesingers: These NPCs were not intended to drop any coin or loot items, but were doing so anyway. This issue has been fixed. * The warcamp guards at Kargrund's Stand have been adjusted to be the desired difficulty level. Items * Might: This Engin ...

In the wake of the availability of free server transfers in Warhammer Online, Mythic has announced that all players on the destination servers will receive a 20% bonus to experience and renown. As many players begin adjusting to their new homes we wanted to help you and your new neighbors settle into the changes as easily as possible. With this in mind all players on the previously announced destination servers will receive a 20% bonus to experience and renown when killing enemy monsters and players.

MMORPG.com Warhammer Online Correspondent John Lisenby writes this guide for players in the Greenskin starting area, going over available quests and more. Here is a complete guide to the starting area of the Greenskins. It will carry you from Da Start where you first spawn into the game, through Stunty Mountain ending you up at Stouts' Pens which is the next questing area. You will find coordinates for where things are located and any special notes for each quest. There is no special order the quests are in. I just listed them as I did them. If you take a quest you can always find out where it is by checking your map "M" key. By default the setting are set to show the quest tracker on the UI and the quest location on the map. The quest location is marked by a red cicle around the are ...

The folks at Warhammer Online have prepared a new dev diary by Lead Artist Russell Chamier, who tals about creating the new Reikland Factory RvR scenario. RvR is the core of this game. This is illustrated by the fact that the game facilitates making a new character, queuing into a scenario at the tender age of rank 1, and putting fools to the sword. You could easily gain the first 10 ranks of your career doing just that. I love the idea of people experiencing RvR before the T4 campaigns. Nobody shows up late to the party at rank 40 and says, "Ok, what's this RvR noise about?" The war should be felt throughout your time spent here. Thus, when the Live Team was tasked with creating post-launch content in the form of scenarios to complement the new classes, I was pleased to be a part of ...