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Loading... It's like the Easter Bunny for MMOGs.

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 - 85 BPM Lord of the Rings Online - 34 BPM EverQuest 2 - 28 BPM Warhammer Online - 21 BPM Lineage 2 - 21 BPM EVE Online - 20 BPM Vanguard - 19 BPM Pirates of the Burning Sea - 14 BPM Tabula Rasa - 14 BPM

The Easter holiday is over for me. Our family traveled four hours south for my son's season ending hockey tournament. These tournaments are a lot like MMOGs. You go, meet many people that you would otherwise not meet, play and have fun. Our tiny little town came away with the silver medal in two age groups, which is a bit like raiding and wiping on the final boss mob, but it was fun nonetheless.

Warhammer Fans will be thrilled to know that our Warhammer community has received a brand new home. Have a look and let me know what you think of the new site.

Some of you may have noticed some slowdowns and strange goings-on around the network the last few days. I was asked if we were experiencing a denial of service attack like some of our competitors have been experiencing, but that isn't the case. Our slowdowns are purely the cause of heavy traffic to the network. We're working on optimizing the sites to better handle the deluge of new visitors. We apologize for any inconvenience that the recent problems may have caused you.

Now the good news... Here are the names of the winners in our 2Moons Contest!

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They each won:

1 Wiki pet - This is an Egg for a pet Item. When you purchase this cash item, it will be an Egg. If you double-click the Egg in your Inventory window, the pet will then hatch from the egg. Pets will follow you around and help gather items and dil. 5 Soul of the Alchemist items - Soul of Alchemist adds an 18% chance of success when creating a socket in a weapon or armor item. * This item cannot be gifted or traded 1 Super Noble Health Pack - Use the Super Noble Health Pack for instant automatic recovery of 820 HP. Right-click or place in F1-F6 slots to use. * This item cannot be gifted or traded 1 Noble Mana Pack - Use the Noble Mana Pack to recover 820 MP manually either by right-clicking or by placing in one of the F1-F6 slots and pressing the appropriate key. * This item cannot be gifted or traded

Congratulations everyone! I'm interested to know what prizes Loading... readers would like to win. Which games and what prizes would make you the happiest epic player on the planet? 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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23 new MMOG hand-crafted articles today! 181 in March! 694 in 2008!

New MMOG Articles At Ten Ton Hammer Today

Blog: The Harshest Barrier of Entry Broken By Friendly Faces Age of Conan: Clan Soup Issue 1 Age of Conan: Clan Soup Issue 2 Age of Conan: Border Kingdom Cryer 03/21/2008 Champions Online: Meet the Team Q&A #3 EverQuest 2: Fens of Nathsar Zone Guide Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess Guide Tour Jumpgate Evolution: Exclusive Interview - Crafting and Resource Gathering Jumpgate Evolution: Video Interview With Producer, Hermann Peterscheck Jumpgate Evolution: Exclusive Screenshots of Octavian Ships Lord of the Rings Online: Tier 2 Tailor Product Medium Armor Statistics List Lord of the Rings Online: Tier 2 Price Guide Weaponsmith Tabula Rasa: Guide To Wilderness LZ Tabula Rasa: Guide To Ustor Yard TenTonHamster: Will Online Gaming Become Part Of Our Education System? ToonTown: Poll - What's Your Favourite Activity? Vanguard: Newsletter - Making Progress Vanguard: Poll - Your Designated Developer Warhammer Online: Chaos Zealot Career Mastery World of Warcraft: Hunter Pet Guide World of Warcraft: U.I. Mods - Titan Panel Updated World of Warcraft: How To Play A Tankadin World of Warcraft: Paid Character Transfer Guide

Hot Content - Or, what I took a fancy to

Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess Guide Tour Jumpgate Evolution: Exclusive Interview - Crafting and Resource Gathering Jumpgate Evolution: Video Interview With Producer, Hermann Peterscheck Jumpgate Evolution: Exclusive Screenshots of Octavian Ships Age of Conan: Tempest of Set Screenshots Age of Conan: Video Developer Diary #5 FusionFall: Exclusive Interview With Content Designer Matt Schwartz Metin 2: Game Update Interview Age of Conan: Class Interview #9 - The Tempest of Set Jumpgate Evolution: Producer Q&A From Connect '08

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How did your Easter go?

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