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EA Announces Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning to Ship in Australia and New Zealand in Fall 08 :
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Highly Anticipated MMO to Simultaneously Launch with North America & Europe with Dedicated Regional Server SYDNEY - May 16, 2008 - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR) will ship in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia simultaneously with the North American and European Fall 2008 release.
In addition, WAR will also feature a dedicated server in Australia, ensuring the best game play experience possible for players in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and other Southeast Asian territories. Players will still have the option of connecting to North American servers.
"Warhammer is a worldwide franchise with a strong following in Australia and New Zealand. By placing our own server down under and running customer service out of EA Mythic, we can ensure that when we launch WAR, Oceanic players will experience the same quality of game play and customer service as North American players," said Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager of EA Mythic.
Based on Games Workshop’s epic and longstanding tabletop fantasy war game, WAR features revolutionary Realm vs. Realm™ (RvR) game play that immerses players in a world of perpetual conflict. WAR is scheduled for launch on the PC in Fall 2008.
To learn more about the game, please visit www.warhammeronline.com.
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EA Buys Social Network Company "Rapture" :
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Did I call it or what??? EA buys Rupture!
May 8, 2008 – 9:23 pm
 Okay, I didn’t call it specifically, but a few hours ago I wrote about the need for MMORPGs to extend their gaming experience beyond the client. I wrote about porting game content, especially character and guild information, to create MMORPG-based social networks.
Well, I doubt EA read my ramblings, but they did just buy Rupture, a beta Web service created by Napster’s Shawn Fanning that will allow them to do just that!
Rupture allows players to create character profiles in a World of Warcraft based social network. Players simply install a client addon that transfers information from the game (such as inventory, equipment, stats, etc.) directly to the Rupture Web site. Players can then make friends, send messages, and write blogs just like they can on any other common social network, like Myspace or Facebook.
It’ll be interesting to see how EA (Mythic) integrates this new acquisition with Warhammer Online. Even if they don’t maintain the site as a separate entity, I think some of the technology will probably work its way into the Warhammer Herald.
Then again, maybe they just want to take this technology off the market… Compared to EA’s $2B Take Two bid, a $30M Rupture buyout seems a paltry price to pay for keeping it out of competing hands.
The weirdest part about all this is that EA Mythic now owns a Blizzard social network… Talk about getting into your opponent’s face! 
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Interesting stuff
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