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Loading... It's like going up Niagara Falls in a barrel.

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 - 128 BPM
Lord of the Rings Online - 37 BPM
EverQuest 2 - 32 BPM
EVE Online - 25 BPM
Vanguard - 23 BPM
Lineage 2 - 21 BPM
Warhammer Online - 18 BPM
Tabula Rasa - 14 BPM
Rappelz - 12 BPM

Congratulations to the Rappelz team on breaking into the Top 10! What the heck is Rappelz? You're making work for me. Now I have to do some research which infringes directly on my "unbridled by facts and grammar" mantra. My virtual personal space is being violated.

Congratulations are also in order to Matt and Katherine (former Ten Ton Hammer EQ2 guildmates) on the birth of their daughter Jadyn! We could really use another tank. The baby-sized keyboard and mouse are on their way to you!

The big news yesterday was that Jeff Hickman lost the company drinking contest and was given the task of announcing that EA/Mythic's Warhammer Online would launch this Autumn and not Q2 as previously announced. I don't think that this was a surprise to anyone who follows the industry closely. There has been no hype from EA since Leipzig last year. The Pulse numbers for Warhammer have run at the 20ish range nearly every day, compared to Age of Conan at 200 and World of Warcraft at 120. If they announced an early launch they would get killed. Right now AoC and WoW are like athletic women at a nudist beach, all eyes are on them. The 2.4 patch for WoW has by itself driven the Warcraft pulse up by 20 points. In laymen's terms, "That's a hella lot!" To give you a frame of reference, 2.4 drove as much traffic to WoW as WAR has in total.

Today I expect that all to change. EA/Mythic has allowed us to post some content that had been embargoed. Warhammer fans will be all over this like Angelina on a third-world child. Jeff and Garrett visited the WAR development team and for their efforts you are rewarded with no less than 11 exclusive WAR articles and videos today!

I'm not allowed to tell you about a contest that we may be having in which we may be giving away some incredibly cool Warhammer Online prizes. It may involve posting to our Forums, but then again, I'm not allowed to tell you that, so if you happen to go there and post (especially in the Loading... and WAR forums) then you may just get a head start on people who don't read this speculation and conjecture. [Ed: We'd like to thank John for writing his final column.]

A holiday launch for WAR will in my humble and routinely incorrect opinion mean that it goes head-to-head with Wrath of the Lich King. How do you think that is going to work out? I once had a developer tell me that he played through TBC before playing the game that he developed and launched. This was a 'AAA' developer. He wasn't the only one on his team that preferred WoW to their own game. I couldn't have higher hopes for WAR, but I'm also deeply entrenched in the 'played the tabletop game', played Dawn of War, play everything Games Workshop camp. As much as I love the Warhammer universe, I'm still going to play Wrath of the Lich King. Doesn't it always seem like the MMOG industry is in either feast or famine mode?

Could WAR go head-to-head with WotLK and succeed? 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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