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In a state of the game address on the official Warhammer Online
website, WarHerald.com,
Mark Jacobs, Vice President and General Manager
of EA Mythic announced tdoay that the release of the much-anticipated
title
will be pushed back a notch the the second quarter of 2008:

As many of you may have heard, we have extended
WAR’s
development cycle until the 2nd quarter of 2008. The reason is simple;
we will not release Warhammer Online until it is the game we set out to
create two years ago.

While a launch delay will mean a longer wait for WAR fans, there's good
news for eager beta testers. Warhammer's recent beta shutdown appears
to be coming to an end:

On the Beta front, we will begin a new phase of
testing in December,
and we look forward to getting even more people involved in WAR by the
end of the year. We are approaching a half a million registrants, and,
to my knowledge, this could be the most ever signups for a Western
MMORPG beta. I am very proud of this as it is a testament to the
strength of the community, the popularity of the Warhammer license, and
the outstanding work the team at EA Mythic is doing on the game. When
we open the beta in Asia, we expect the numbers to continue to climb as
we’d like to see one million players signed up to test the
game. At that point, we will be well on our way to bringing about the
second part of the double entendre of our motto as WAR really will be
everywhere.



Over the next few months in Beta, our players will find all-new content
to experience, careers to play and cities to siege. Our Capital City
team continues to push the envelope by creating the next generation of
living cities in MMORPGs and Altdorf is simply breathtaking. New
Community systems will be in place and we look forward to getting many
existing guilds into the beta to try them out.

You can read more about the state of Warhammer Online at href="http://www.warherald.com/news/">WarHerald.com.


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