Please, Hammer. Don't hurt em.

We try to keep an eye out on all the upcoming MMORPG's out there--seeing as how we are in the game guide business, it makes sense-- and one of the games we've been talking about lately is Warhammer Online. Yeah, we know it's another fantasy/sword-and-sorcery type game, but it has been getting some good press coverage and early reviews. It's currently in closed beta, but according to the game's website, there are about 500,000 people who have applied to be beta testers so far. Given that the most widely played MMORPG currently has 9 million subscribers, and most others are lucky to reach a million, having half a million gamers who want to play the beta is a pretty good sign.

In other news, EVE Online recently released the Trinity update. According to our sources (And by sources we mean the drunk spider monkey we keep around the office. (And by office we mean the cheap linoleum floor of the local community center.)) there have been some significant problems with the update. Apparently, the bugs in the new update are so rampant in some major systems (Jita), that CCP has issued a warning to pilots not to venture there.

Maybe it's just us, but if your new update is so problematic that it's shutting down some of the most important areas of the game, you probably would have been better off delaying the release. Then again, it may not have been something CCP could have known about beforehand. Either way, there are lots of devoted EVE Online players lately who have tried their hardest to disprove the notion that in space, no one can hear you scream.

Fly safe.