Head on over to the official website and sign up now!

They are still somewhat short of that number, and there is just one day left! Get on over to the SW:TOR Facebook page, and add them on Twitter before time is up!

World of Tanks is described as a team-based MMORPG focusing on armoured warfare featuring tanks from the period 1930-1950. The game is a $10m development and recently went into closed beta testing in Russia

The closed beta for World of Tanks begins on July 15, 2010. The registration for the World of Tanks closed beta starts on the 1st of July, 2010. Grab and redeem your key as soon as possible to ensure a spot in the beta!

How to redeem your closed beta key for World of Tanks:

- Obtain a closed beta key by clicking here
- Go to World of Tanks registration page http://game.worldoftanks.com/registration/
- Fill in the simple registration form and input the beta key you received below
- Confirm your registration
- Download the game, install and join tense online warfare!

“Hi-Rez Studios is committed to delivering the best value in PC gaming”, said Todd Harris, Global Agenda Executive Producer. “In addition to including all of the game’s initial launch content for free inside the single-purchase price, we are bundling nearly 6 months worth of post-release content and features and including that within the single-purchase game. One purchase of Global Agenda lets you experience all of this content forever with no subscription.”

The latest solid news we had heard of the game’s development was its announcement as Project V13.

Visit the game’s website here.

If I can remember how to use this newfangled Twitter thing that the young kids are into these days, I’ll be broadcasting periodic tweets as to my disposition during the show, and commenting on anything that really catches my eye.

You can follow the action right here: http://twitter.com/TheMMOGamer

Highlights from today’s appointment book include Trion, with their renamed Rifts: Planes of Telara, THQ with the 40K MMO (which I really want to see, being an old 40K nerd back in high school), and 38 Studios, who will be sitting down with me to have a little conversation about their as-yet unnamed mystery project.

“We are proud that the quality of our games and publishing services enabled us to acquire this license,” said Christoph Jennen, CFO of Gameforge. “Our upcoming Star Trek browser games will further expand our consumer base and market share on an international scale.”

GameForge runs the MMO portal MMOGAME.com, where you can find out more about their current games catalogue.

Players logging in between the 25th and the 28th of this month can also get a bonus pet, the Frostpaw Kitten through the in-game marketplace.

The update includes:

• Two new high-level raid dungeons
• New Halas starting zone
• New Halas housing options
• Story Teller UI guide
• Exclusive login bonus item (available only between May 25, 2010 and May 28, 2010)
• Halas themed Marketplace items
• Multiple in-game events

For more information about EverQuest 2, visit the official website.

Don’t you hate it when people spam your Facebook page with a bunch of random nonsense about pink cows lost on their farm, muffins in their restaurant, or needing to put out a hit on someone in Cuba?

Then man, are you ever going to hate the next few years of MMO gaming, if SOE has anything to say about it.

Topics

• What we’ve been playing
• SOE Releases The Agency: Covert Ops, a “Facebook MMO”
• The Agency: Covert Ops sets us off on a “social media gaming” rant
• Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer Goes Live
• Silverlode Announces Naval MMORPG Captains of DarkTide
• The Fickle Nature of the Fandom, Re: The Carrie Gouskos Interview

Hosts

• Jeffrey Philipp
• Steven Crews

As always we appreciate your feedback! You can also send us your questions or topics you would like us to discuss by dropping a comment here or sending an email to podcast@mmogamer.com.

Remember to subscribe!

Here is how you get your key and redeem it:

Click here to get a gift code!

1. Redeem your key on the Runes of Magic homepage by going to the “Redeem Key” link located on the side (or go to: http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/box.html) and enter your account information and redeemable key, then click “Submit”.

2. Check your registered email address to find your gift code ID and password for your Special Experience Package.

3. Log into your account and character, then click the “Item Shop” button on the lower right hand side or press “/” key to open the Item Shop menu.

4. Click the “Redeem Voucher” button on the top left side of the Item Shop menu.

5. Enter the voucher ID and password. Check your Item Shop Backpack for your Special Experience Package and enjoy!

Update: All keys are gone! Keep an eye out for future giveaways!

Unlike other pirate titles, Captains of DarkTide is set in a fantasy realm, combining magic and gunpowder, dragons and steamships, elves and orcs… Through questing and crafting, players will acquire fire-belching or lighting-spitting cannons, and can crew up with everything from orc snipers to dwarven bombardiers to dragon-summoning dark elves; and for all you undead fans, yes, even the lich and his minions are included.

For more information about the game and to sign up for beta, visit the official Captains of DarkTide website.

Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer is being distributed through retail by CompuExpert in the US and by Deep Silver in the European markets, and is available as an all-new combined package that includes both the original game and the expansion so that even new players who might not own a previous copy of the game can easily get started on their adventures through the new lands of Khitai. It is also possible to upgrade an existing copy of ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ to the expansion through the Funcom account management system, or by purchasing the game in retail and upgrading with the key enclosed in the box.

For more information about the game, visit the official Age of Conan website.

It’s been far too quiet around these parts, lately. But, hopefully things will be getting back to normal soon.

E3 is coming up next month, and it’s always a crowd-pleaser.

Until then, we have some actual honest to God news and features for you this week. Not the least of which is Carrie Gouskos sitting down with Steve to have a little chat about Warhammer Online. And by little, we mean 40 minutes straight.

Scheduling conflicts meant that she couldn’t actually join us on the podcast proper, but we know that “reading four pages of solid walls of text” isn’t really the fashion these days, and we threw the audio into the show, anyway.

NOTE: In response to feedback regarding a technical problem with the audio only playing through one stereo channel, I’ve gone back and saved the file in mono as a workaround. Quality may suffer slightly.

Please do not point out the irony of griping to someone about bugs in their game, and then having to patch an mp3 after release. – Steve

Topics

• What we’ve been playing
• Pre-recorded interview: Carrie Gouskos, Producer of Warhammer Online. Audio begins at 9:10
• Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer Releases May 11th
• Fallen Earth “Restructures” Its Staff
• Alganon Released. Again
• The MMO Gamer 3.0

Hosts

• Jeffrey Philipp
• Steven Crews

As always we appreciate your feedback! You can also send us your questions or topics you would like us to discuss by dropping a comment here or sending an email to podcast@mmogamer.com.

Remember to subscribe!

Looking to play the role of a secret agent before The Agency releases for PC and Playstation 3?  Look no further than Sony Online Entertainments new Facebook app, The Agency: Covert Ops! Currently released in beta, the super secret app is like other Facebook apps out there, and yet a little different.   You can level up, purchase new digs for your character and ” Headquarters”, run missions for cash and “influence” to level up.  One of the cool differences so far, is that in doing missions to gain that influence, there are actually a few different types of missions.  You may play a simple side scrolling mission, where you guide your character across rooftops avoiding guards, or searching for items in a hidden items type office scenario.  It nice to actually see some meat in new Facebook games such as this, and with word of a couple more Facebook games in development a SOE, it wil be interesting to see what else they come up with.

It’s been a real slow couple of news weeks in the world of online gaming.

So slow, in fact, that we skipped last week’s recording entirely, and the sum total of two week’s worth of news barely even broke the 20 minute mark, making this the shortest non-Power Level show we’ve ever done.

On a technical note, we were testing out a new piece of recording software for this show, and it ended up making Jeffrey sound like he was talking through a tin can on a string. We will not be using it again.

Topics

• Steve talks Jeffrey into playing WAR, after being tired of ranting about it all by himself. And then…
• Wasn’t April Fools Last Week? Mythic Billing Mistake Overcharges Some DAoC, WAR Players 1,000%
• Quest Online Suffers Corporate Coup. We discuss this in a calm and intelligent manner.

Hosts

• Jeffrey Philipp
• Steven Crews

As always we appreciate your feedback! You can also send us your questions or topics you would like us to discuss by dropping a comment here or sending an email to podcast@mmogamer.com.

Remember to subscribe!

At $14.95 per month times 99 charges… well, we’ll just let you do the math on that one.

Mythic’s Andy Belford had this to say regarding the issue:

We have confirmed with our vendor that players who have been charged multiple times for their subscriptions should start seeing a reversal of charges within 24-36 hours. We anticipate that once the charges have been reversed, any fees that have been incurred should be refunded as well. If after 36 hours, there are still incorrect charges or fees on your account, please follow these instructions:

• Please begin by contacting your financial institution and explain to them that you were incorrectly charged multiple times and, as a result, over drafted.  Most financial institutions will reverse these charges

• If your financial institution is unable to remove these charges, you may contact our billing department by calling 650-628-1001 during our hours of operation, which are 10:00 AM EDT – 10:00 PM EDT, 7 days a week. Please have the phone and fax number of your financial institution ready when you call.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this issue may be causing our players. Please continue to watch the Herald in the coming days for further information regarding this issue.

This situation is still ongoing, with rumors and innuendo flying all over the place, and we’ll keep you posted as things develop…

In this week’s show we’re joined by special guest Fred Howard, Vice President of Marketing for KingsIsle Entertainment, who takes us through some of the finer points of what Wizard101 has to offer.

Topics

• Special Guest: Fred Howard
• EverQuest Turns 11 Years Old
• Tales Runner Welcome Package Giveaway
• Red 5 Receives $20 in Funding from The9
• Star Trek Online Season 1: Common Ground Announced
• The Secret World’s In-Game Trailer

Hosts

• Jeffrey Philipp
• Steven Crews
• Siam Choudhury

As always we appreciate your feedback! You can also send us your questions or topics you would like us to discuss by dropping a comment here or sending an email to podcast@mmogamer.com.

Remember to subscribe!

After checking out the video, visit the official website.