Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR), the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game from EA Mythic, has surpassed 500,000 closed beta registrants in North America and Europe. Beta testing resumes next week with a special sneak peek at the new Dark Elf lands and careers.

Thanks to the response from fans around the world, the development team says it now has a strong pool of gamers to tap for WAR's final testing stages.

Poised to be one of the biggest new MMORPG releases releases of next year, WAR is slated for launch in Q2 2008. The Beta Centre is still open and accepting recruits at war-europe.com.

Based on Games Workshop’s epic and longstanding tabletop fantasy war game, Warhammer Online features revolutionary realm v realm gameplay that immerses players in a world of perpetual conflict.

For more information, visit war-europe.com.