Big Warhammer news on the horizon
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

Keen recently received a mysterious package containing orange hair dye, a set of hair clippers, and a little note with the text: “More to come 1-29-09.“ Most educated guessers are heralding the impending announcement of a new Slayer career (to replace the old Hammerer from beta). Here’s hoping we’ll hear something about the Choppa too!Last week, Mark Jacobs also spoke up about a major announcement coming soon (likely tied to Keen’s 1-29-09 teaser). ” Mark also hopes the announcement will alleviate some of the major player concerns from the past several months. “And yes, more bug fixes and career tweaking/balancing is part of it along with a whole lot of new stuff.

Mark Jacobs was chatting with fans (and trolls) on WHA yesterday and announced that Mythic’s parent company, EA, will be hosting an earnings call within the next few weeks. During this call, John Riticiello will likely discuss Warhammer’s current subscriber numbers among among other things. Until that call, Mark is policy-bound to refrain from discussing WAR’s current numbers. He will be more than happy to chat about them afterward.It seems as though the end of January and early February will bring plenty of exciting Warhammer Online news, which is good timing considering all the people who have been begging for my free trial keys lately. Interestingly, many of them are currently playing WoW.The bulk of this announcement will shed some light on Mythic’s timetable for Warhammer in the first half of 2009. “Basically, we’ll be laying out the major initiatives that the development team is going to be working on for the next five months along with a rough monthly schedule.