MMORPGs, originating in the mid-to-late 1990s, become a popular PC trend and virtual online worlds become a reality as games such as RuneScape ( 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Eve Online ( 2003 ), Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided ( 2003 ), World of Warcraft ( 2004 ), and Everquest II ( 2004 ), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ( 2007 ) and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( 2008 ) are released.

Many MMORPGS such as RuneScape, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Warhammer Online, Lord of the Rings Online and Final Fantasy XI strictly prohibit buying gold, items, or any other product linked with the game, with real world cash.

Final Fantasy XI and Warhammer Online both have entire task forces dedicated to the removal of real money trading from the game.

On June 20, 2006 EA purchased Mythic Entertainment, who are finished making Warhammer Online.

* Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Official Game Site

On March 6, 2009, Mythic's Mark Jacobs announced on the Warhammer Online VN Boards that plans for the Origins server for DAoC were put on hold indefinitely:

* Warhammer Online, a MMORPG

This followed in the wake of other MMORPG cancellations in 2004, including True Fantasy Live Online, Mythica, and Warhammer Online ( which was revived in 2005 ).

* Warhammer Online, abbreviation used internally by Games Workshop staff

* Andrew Meggs ( lead programmer )-joined Mythic Entertainment to work on Warhammer Online.

* Warhammer Fantasy Battle has been adapted as computer games: the 1995 Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, its 1998 sequel Warhammer: Dark Omen, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and the MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning which was released on 18 September 2008.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( officially abbreviated as WAR ) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting.

Another Warhammer Online game which has been titled as Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game.

Unlike most RTS games, which feature four ( Age of Empires ), three ( Company of Heroes ), two ( Warcraft, StarCraft, Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War, and Rise of Legends, the sequel to Rise of Nations ), or one ( Homeworld, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II ) resource, there are six resources in Rise of Nations, five of which ( Food, Timber, Metal, Oil, and Wealth ) are used mostly to build units and buildings.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning features Mythic's Realm versus Realm ( RvR ) combat system, originally developed in Dark Age of Camelot.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is a Realm versus Realm ( RvR ) game with two factions: Order and Destruction.

** Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Mythic Entertainment released Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning on September 18, 2008.

Dark Age of Camelot support and development continues, in parallel with other EA Mythic projects, such as the 2005-announced Warhammer Online.

During the E3 trade show, on May 18, 2005, Mythic announced that it had licensed the Warhammer Fantasy IP and was starting to work on a new MMO, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

* Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( 2008 )

* Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a 2008 MMO video game

Hammerers were originally going to be a playable class in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, fulfilling the Melee DPS role for the Dwarfs, however they were dropped before release due to design flaws and later replaced by the Slayer class.

* Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( Lead designer, CEO Mythic Entertainment, 2008 )

In other fantasy and role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D, see plant creatures ), EverQuest, Thief 2: The Metal Age, Magic: The Gathering, Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Square Enix's Final Fantasy series, Warlords series and the Warcraft PC game series, Tolkien-like Ents are known as " Treants ", " Dendroids ", " Treemen ", " Woodskins " and " Treefolk ", for trademark reasons, much like Hobbits are only referred to as Halflings in such works.

Vaults include those for games such as World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Final Fantasy XI, EverQuest II, Lineage and Lineage II, Guild Wars, Star Wars Galaxies, Dark Age of Camelot and many more.

Andy Brick has composed and / or orchestrated music for game titles that include Maxis ’ Sim City: Rush Hour, Midway Entertainments ’ Stranglehold, Electronic Arts ’ Sims 2 and Warhammer Online: Day of Reckoning as well as Nintendo's Super Mario Bros., Bungie's Halo 3, and Square Enix Final Fantasy series.

' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

The Black Templars in Warhammer 40, 000 have an item called the Holy Orb of Antioch, which is a very powerful hand grenade carried by Black Templar commanders.

* Legion ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a Horus Heresy novel by Dan Abnett

* In the 2009 Warhammer 40, 000 novel Mechanicum by Graham McNeill, the noosphere is an experimental communication infrastructure that empowers the user by harnessing the power of the collective mind.

* The Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40, 000, administered by the High Lords of Terra in the God-Emperor's name.

Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

* Black Library's Horus Heresy series novel set in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, titled A Thousand Sons, by Graham McNeil, references the Enochian language.

Examples include the 1989 video game Phantasy Star II, the 2007 film Battle for Terra, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, the Imperium of Man in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, the 2009 movies Planet 51 and the 2011 movie Mars Needs Moms.

* In both table top RPGs Warhammer and Warhammer 40, 000 by Games Workshop Nergal is a direct inspiration to the major chaos god Nurgle.

Warhammer 40, 000 ( informally known as Warhammer 40k or simply 40k ) is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science-fantasy universe.

Warhammer 40, 000 was created by Rick Priestley in 1987 as the futuristic companion to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, sharing many game mechanics.

The Warhammer 40, 000 setting is used for several tabletop games, video games, and works of fiction, including licensed works published by Black Library, a subsidiary of Games Workshop.

The composition of these armies is usually constrained by rules contained within the Warhammer 40, 000 rulebook, as well as in several army-specific rulebooks called ' codexes '.

There is also the possibility to play Warhammer 40k by Internet through the Java-based VASSAL Engine for which a Warhammer 40k Module has been released.

The Eldar are a race of elf like beings who inhabit the fictional universe of the game Warhammer 40, 000, a 1987 tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science-fantasy universe.

In later iterations of Warhammer 40, 000-related products ( starting with the release of Advanced Space Crusade ) the Tyranids were given a complete makeover and became a major race, popularized by a number of successful expansions.

In Inquisitor, the narrative skirmish game using Warhammer 40, 000 type characters, the Tyranids are represented by the Genestealer and Hybrid models under the generic roleplaying category of " aliens.