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Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning Gets Windfall Number Of Beta Testers

EA Mythic today announced that the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta now has over 400,000 sign-ups. This allegedly makes it the one for the most successful MMO betas ever, I imagine only one has ever been bigger to be honest.

Thankfully for eager fans, this doesn’t mean sign-ups are now closed, European gamer’s can still take part via the official European site, others should try the EA Mythic beta site.

Warhammer Online launches in early 2008.

Warhammer Online beta Wants More

EA Mythic sends word that some 300,000 people have signed up so far to play the Warhammer Online beta and I think they want more:

EA Mythic today announced that more than 300,000 players have signed up for the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) closed beta test. In little more than a month, EA Mythic’s highly-anticipated Warhammer Online has amassed a growing army of willing participants in Europe and North America, making the beta one of the most popular in massively multiplayer gaming history.

Saga a FREE MMORTS Starts Beta Singups

Saga A free-to-play massively multiplayer real-time strategy game, has entered open beta testing. Players can head to PlaySaga.com or a variety of games-oriented outlets to download the game and start playing right away, joining thousands of players already in on the action.

Saga is a persistent-world real-time strategy game set in a fantasy universe inhabited by Elves, Dwarves, Ogres, Giants, Demons, Dark Elves and mechanical beings. Players collect troops, build armies, conquer new lands and build up kingdoms that exist even when the player is not online, complete with resource collection, city building and peasant management. Saga includes massive armies that gain experience through subsequent battles, multiplayer questing, an auction house for trading troops and spells, guild wars and espionage.

Saga has no subscription fees. Players pay as little or as much as they decide, by purchasing ‘booster packs’ of random troops and spells, which are traded and customized to create the strategic army of choice for each player.

Game Info:
Saga is a persistent-world real-time strategy game set in a fantasy universe inhabited by Elves, Dwarves, Ogres, Giants, Demons, Dark Elves and mechanical beings. Players collect troops, build armies, conquer new lands and build up kingdoms that exist even when the player is not online, complete with resource collection, city building and peasant management. Saga includes massive armies that gain experience through subsequent battles, multiplayer questing, an auction house for trading troops and spells, guild wars and espionage.

Saga has no subscription fees. Players pay as little or as much as they decide, by purchasing ‘booster packs’ of random troops and spells, which are traded and customized to create the strategic army of choice for each player.

Key features

• Choose one of five distinct factions (Light, Machines, Magic, Nature, and War), each with its own races, powers and buildings, to control in a persistent world that exists even when you’re not online.
• Build your army from over 100 unique troop types, plus thousands of possible armor and weapon upgrades.
• Trade troops, spells and resources with other players using the in-game market, or buy booster packs in hopes of finding rare and powerful units.
• Choose from over 100 buildings to enhance and expand your kingdom.
• Use spells and special abilities to turn the tide of battles and impact game play.
• Quest and campaign across the land to earn experience and win treasure to enhance your kingdom.
• Form guilds of online allies; then join forces in war against other guilds for fortune and glory.