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OCTOBER 31st 2007 - FIRST EDITION
BKB RECRUITS FOR WAR AND AOC

BKB has recently added to its gaming arsenal Warhammer (WAR) and Age of Conan (AOC). Both of these highly anticipated MMOGs offer something special to the gaming community. WAR, a fantasy RPG is directly based from the past tabletop and PC games that most of us are familiar with and promises to bring the Warhammer universe alive in a way that has never been done before.

AOC brings back Conan, the Cimmerian King from the classic novels of Robert E. Howard. AOC brings tales told in the cold blood of enemies and shows for the first time the ancient lands of Hiboria.

First let’s examine WAR. War is being developed by Mythic Entertainment, the same company that developed the popular Dark Age of Camelot Online game. They are accredited with developing the first online game that incorporated RVR combat.


Resembling the ever popular World of Warcraft, WAR shares many if the same graphical qualities, but rest assured that the newest graphical technologies have been incorporated in-game, so you can expect to see a stunning portrayal of the WAR gaming world. WAR offers many exciting features, such as RVR combat, six races, twenty four career choices, twenty four huge gaming zones, and a whole lot more!

I could simply write the whole article on the features alone. I invite our members to check out the features themselves at the official WAR homepage.

Age of Conan is currently under development as well and is brought to you by the same developers of Anarchy Online, FunCom. FunCom has been in the business of Online Gaming for almost 7 years and still going strong to this day.

Age of Conan brings a bloody fury that can sparsely be matched in the online gaming world.

Humorously titled a “Real Fantasy” by FunCom, you will not find your typical Dwarfs, Elves, and Orcs in here. However, that does not mean you will not encounter exotic and powerful creatures such as The Grol and The Flesheater. AOC offers several new and time honored features. Some of these features are drunken brawling, PVP battles for keeps, Player Cities and a deep and immersive combat system that takes real skill to master.

BKB invites all our members past and present to join us in WAR or AOC for a new adventure in online gaming. We are all very excited about the up and coming releases of these games.

WAR is expected for release Q2 2008 and AOC is expected March 25th 2008. .We hope to see you there in the game of your choice.

Reporter Novwi - Novwi

The BKB Forums
BKBs sees no less than 1000 unique visitors a month!

The BKB forums have over 26,000 posts and 1400 members from all over the world and receives on average; forty new forum registrations, 45 posts, 500,000 clicks, and over 60,000 page views a month! BKB is one of the largest gaming communities on the internet today.

http://www.bkbhq.com - BKB Main Page
http://www.bkbhq.com/forum/ - The BKB Forums
http://www.ageofconan.com - Official Age of Conan Site
http://www.warhammeronline.com - Official WAR Site

 
Darkfall Interview Brings New Hope
 

Well guys I have to say this actually crushed my doubts about Darkfall and made me more excited about a game then I have ever been since I found out about online games at age 9.

Asp, a leader of the gaming clan lords of Death started off by telling readers a little bit about himself then went on to tell about Aventurine and things that I found interesting such as Tasos is an American from Boston ,MA which shocked most that read it.

Asp then went on to say his meeting left him stunned at how helpful Tasos was, and how he was going to pick Asp up from his hotel. However, it was too busy in the streets and found the best way to travel was by rail. Tasos gave Asp directions how to get there and they finally met.

When they got to the office he interviewed Tasos and Kjetil and asked many questions we have all asked. One such question regarded stealth.

They described the stealth skill as hiding you on radar and making no noise (like crouching does in Halo) but otherwise it is all you.


Human riding the dreaded shulgan Drake
Pictured above is just one of the five mounts
available in-game


Darkfall Website
ASP Interview

They went on to play the game and Asp talks about how great the graphics are, and how riding mounts are not easy like in the game that shall not be named.

He then kills Kjetil, and proceeded to naval combat where he experienced fighting, blowing up coastal regions, and accurately disarming and stealing a ship.

This impressed me the most, you can shoot off all a ships cannons and render it defenseless then board it, or board it first and steal it while the enemy is firing from its cannons!

Drowning was totally realistic and the collision will make it a very real and dangerous scramble to the deck for those who are the lowest gunners.

They also talked about the economy and how grinding for items, to selling, destabilizes the economy in many games. Not in Darkfall, they have solved this market problem by making it unprofitable to sell to npcs due to the low buy price and much more profitable to sell to players. They well stimulate the economy and recount for gold loss by interjecting gold through shop keeps ncps. Amazing when you think about how much game economies resemble the economies of the non-cyber world.

Reporter Dagger - Dagger

This Month's New and Returning Members

New Members:

Burne109 - Age of Conan
Dik-Dik - Ogame
Dragoness - Ogame
drbaker - WWII Online
freuler - WWII Online
Grimhunter - Ogame
lugs11 - WWII Online
maximun payne - Ogame
niz x ekips - Ogame
RazorRat - WWII Online
Ricky - WWII Online
Swedda - WWII Online
Tampa Mavrik - Ogame
Waycool - WWII Online

Welcome Back:

Agrumm - WWII Online
Colpeppr - WWII Online
Dazed - WWII Online
Deadsoon - WWII Online
Dezey - WWII Online
DoNinja - OGame
Lump0r - WWII Online
MacGonzo - WWII Online
Magri - WWII Online
sitngbul - WWII Online

 

WWII Online - Word from the front

TOEs have been with us for a full campaign now, and they have made some much needed changes to the gameplay. Along with new tactical options open to commanders, such as breakthroughs and trapping enemy formations in “kessels”, the tying of troops and equipment to their brigades now means that there is no weak point in the allied lines where ArFr and the BEF used to meet. The allies have taken advantage of this level footing, winning the first TOE campaign, and having pushed the Axis all the way back to towns such as Aachen and Monchen Gladbach in the current one.

The Hurricane MkIIb armed with twelve .303s for the British, a Hawk model armed with six .50s for the French and the 109g6 for the axis, armed with two 13mm HMGs and a 30mm cannon. All keen flyers should really try these out, in particular the Hawk. Six .50s drops the Luftwaffe in seconds!

A big addition in the last patch was that of 3 new planes being added. All are variant models of existing planes.

BKB have been instrumental in the push forward. A number of players have returned from breaks within the past few weeks, and making up for lost time by killing plenty of the enemy.

There’s never been a better time to join in the action. All that BKB’s WWIIOL members ask is that players get on Teamspeak so that they can get involved with all the regulars. BKB players monitor channel 6 on the in game radio, so if you’re trying to find us, ask there. We have some extremely good players who are very willing to help.

I hope to see you on the battlefield!


-
Cywnfawr


BKB on the front line mount an attack

Riverdog and Lodgey take the enemy positions with courage and cold steel, whilst brave Scots Kenikeli and Oweny provide covering fire as the rest of BKB moves in.

Official WWII Online Website
BKB WWII Online Forums

 
  Ogame - Oh My!
 

  Ogame
Ogame - BKBs most popular game
Free online play brings thousands of players to this very addiciting strategy game.

Official OGame Website

BKB Ogame Forums

Ogame is BKBs most popular online game as of this moment! This online boardgame style game has taken our members completly by storm.

BKBs most popular online game as of this moment

Ogame offers a space simulation strategy game at a completly free of cost monthly gaming fee.

Ogame currently has well over 90 members playing. Again showing that there are power in numbers, BKB has risen to the top 25 clans in the Ogame universe showing it is a force to be reckoned with.

For more information about Ogame, see the official Ogame website or visit the BKB forums.

- Novwi

THE BKB WORD

As part of our on-going efforts to continue the publishing of our team effort newsletter, BKB will be examining much closer each game every month..LOTR Kinship Hall

Congratulations LOTR players! BKB has completed contruction of the Kinship hall! BKB plays on the Elendilmir server.

"I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to the overall success of this endeavour. Many an ale will be drank and battle plan discussed in our new kinship hall!" - Lusindor

From all of us here at BKB Happy Halloween! We hope you have enjoyed the very first edition of the BKB Chronicle and we look forward to bringing many more issues to our users in the future.

Please welcome the following Field Reporters to the Chronicle; Dagger for Darkfall, Ken135 for Ogame, Droops for Warhammer, and Cywnfawr for WWII Online. It's an honor to have you all aboard and your continued support for BKB is greatly appreciated!!

Can you can write awesome reports? Want to see your report, article or story in the BKB Chronicle? BKB is always looking for energetic and enthusiastic reporters! If you are interested in reporting for BKB, please contact Mlucas or Novwi via forum Private message for more information. Currently BKB is seeking reporters for all its currently played and up coming games, we are always happy to add more reporters.

- BKB

  Screenshots of the Month
 

AGE OF CONAN SCREENSHOTS
Blood of Battle  Demon Vistrix   Magic 
WARHAMMER SCREENSHOTS
Warhammer  Warhammer  Warhammer 

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