Group Hug

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First, the Ten Ton Pulse, your finger on the beating heart of the MMOG industry.

If the Top 10 isn't enough, we now show the Top 20 and Top 50 lists as well, available to everyone on our homepage. (What is Pulse?)

Age of Conan - 200 BPM
World of Warcraft - 97 BPM
Lord of the Rings Online - 35 BPM
Lineage 2 - 27 BPM
EverQuest 2 - 24 BPM
Warhammer Online - 22 BPM
EVE Online - 16 BPM
Vanguard - 13 BPM
Guild Wars - 12 BPM
Tabula Rasa - 11 BPM

Congratulations the Warhammer Online team who currently have the collector's edition sitting in the #1 spot on the Amazon.com 'Top Sellers in Video Games' list. If you missed the column yesterday because of your open-heart surgery or your accident at the pogo-stick through the landmines race then you missed no less than 11 exclusive videos and articles about Warhammer Online. Go ahead and watch them all. Tell your boss that I said it was OK. Here's my email address if he has a problem with it.

Thank you to Bill, one of the Loading... faithful who put me on to this fantastic $9.99 deal for Tabula Rasa at Amazon.com. If you find great deals like this pass them along and I'll share them with the rest of our Loading... community!

While I'm on the topic of community building, a few of us (Jeff, Garrett, myself and perhaps Phil) will be in New York at the upcoming Comic Con. It is always fantastic to meet some of the people who make our jobs possible. If you are going to be attending Comic Con or will be in the Manhattan area between April 17th and 20th let us know and we'll find a quiet (or loud) place to hook up, have a drink and impersonate a one-legged-drunken marching band.

Since we are in group hug mode today let's share some more shall we? I have a question for both my developer and player readership.

Question: Do you need to go elsewhere to get your MMOG coverage? If so, what is it that you can't find at TenTonHammer.com?

Fooled you, I have two questions. Reloading... (see what I did there?)

Question 2: Would you prefer that I took a more time delving into the intricacies of the MMOG industry rather than spinning around the periphery as I am wont to do. A rabid and apparently unemployed Loading... reader dug up an article written two years listing Gaming's Top 50 Journalists. They all appear shackled by facts and grammar, which as you know if you have read this column for long are not elements that I am drawn to or fond of, hence their scarcity in my articles.

Here is your chance to change the world, albeit virtually and you won't stop me from antagonizing Rosie O'Donnell or Tom Cruise no matter what your wildest desires are.

Change the face of Loading... The The Loading... forums await you.

Do you feel the need to contact me personally with naughty pictures or derogatory comments? Here's my E-mail.

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

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