Warhammer Online Gearing Up for Beta

1up reports that Warhammer Online has more than 500,000 people registered to participate in the game's beta.

The game is slated for release sometime mid-2008. I bet Age of Conan comes out around that time too. The real question is how can either game survive if released in close proximity to each other, not to mention compete with other, more established MMOs like LoTRO, EQ2, and WoW.

I think I heard Warhammer Online offers a more PvP gameplay mentality than Age of Conan, so that kind of difference could set the two games apart enough to appeal to different sorts of gamers. But we do seem to have a glut of MMOs on the market at the moment. And with most of them demanding almost all of a gamer's attention, I don't imagine that all can succeed.