In a recent news item put out through the War Herald, EA announces restructuring for the MMO and RPG groups.

EA is restructuring its RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic and BioWare. This newly formed team will be led by Ray Muzyka, co-founder and General Manager of BioWare. With this change, Ray becomes Group General Manager of the new RPG/MMO studio group. BioWare’s other co-founder, Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer for the new RPG/MMO studio group. Rob Denton will step up as General Manager of Mythic and report to Ray. BioWare’s studios remain unchanged and continue to report to Ray.

For you Bioware fans out there, make sure you read the bolded above; so this shouldn’t affect the continued development of SW:TOR.

Regarding Mark Jacobs co-founder and current General Manager of Mythic: “[He] will leave EA on June 23, 2009. We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward. Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.”

What does this mean for the diminishing MMORPG WAR? There is no question that this MMOG has suffered after such a stellar debut. What changes can go into this game to re-attract gamers?

Just in case you didn’t know, Warhammer’s expansion, “Land of the Dead” goes live today.

Status: All servers are now online, welcome back!

Greetings!

This morning (Tuesday, 6/23/09) all North American servers will be brought offline at 8:00AM EDT with Oceanic following at 9:00AM EDT to open the Land of the Dead for the winning realms of this past week’s Live Event: Rise of the Tomb Kings! In addition multiple other small improvements will also be made during this downtime.

We anticipate servers to be online by 1:00PM EDT. As always stay tuned to the Herald for information during this and other future downtimes, thank you!

Enjoy.

Warhammer Online has released an FAQ about their latest expansion Land of the the Dead.

We have a Land of the Dead FAQ for you this afternoon. This FAQ was created based on the top questions we’ve received from players on the Public Test Server, and will let you know everything you need to jump right into the action when the Land of the Dead goes live. We will update this list as needed.

For the full FAQ visit the War Herald and check up on the latest information.

Warhammer Online released their new patch today. A few key features are the Beyond the Sands Live Event, Keep Upgrades and better Combat Responsiveness that’s been plaguing them since release.

Click here for the full patch notes.