WarCry Network is a fan-based web site network centered around MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) and other similar interests. It boasts a large community of professional web sites and databases for these games.

One of the regular features at WarCry.com are exclusive interviews with game developers and game company executives. Among past interviewees are Matt Mihaly

Matt Mihaly

Matt Mihaly / Matthew Mihaly is an American CEO and Creative Director of and Chairman, founder, CEO, and formerly Creative Director at Iron Realms Entertainment. He is known for pioneering the sale of virtual assets in online games...

, CEO of Iron Realms Entertainment

Iron Realms Entertainment

Iron Realms Entertainment is a computer game development company that has created the MUDs Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands; Aetolia, The Midnight Age; Imperian, the Sundered Heavens; Lusternia, Age of Ascension; and Midkemia Online...

, Steven-Elliot Altman

Steven-Elliot Altman

Steven-Elliot Altman is a bestselling American author, graphic novelist, video game writer-director, producer and screenwriter.-Games:*9Dragons Online...

, lead writer at 9Dragons

9Dragons

9Dragons is a martial arts-themed massively multiplayer online role playing game, developed by Korean video game company Indy21. The game features 3D graphics and traditional Massively multiplayer online game control schemes...

, Howard Marks

Howard Marks

Dennis Howard Marks is a Welsh author and former drug smuggler who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases, supposed connections with groups such as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia, and his eventual conviction at the hands of the American Drug...

, CEO of Acclaim Games

Acclaim Games

Acclaim Games, based in Beverly Hills, California, was a private online video game company that offered free Massively multiplayer online role-playing games on its website upon registration. The company was founded in 2006 and is the successor of Acclaim Entertainment in terms of brand name...

, John Scott Tynes, producer of Pirates of the Burning Sea

Pirates of the Burning Sea

Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Flying Lab Software...

, Jeff Anderson

Jeff Anderson

Jeffrey Allan "Jeff" Anderson is an American film actor, film director, and screenwriter best known for starring as Randal Graves in Clerks and Clerks II...

, CEO of Turbine, Inc.

Turbine, Inc.

Turbine, Inc. is an American computer game developer that pioneers 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing games . Turbine was founded by Johnny Monsarrat, Jeremy Gaffney, Kevin Langevin, and Timothy Miller, changing their company name in 2005 to Turbine, Inc...

, Scott Hartsman, senior producer and creative director of Everquest II

EverQuest II

EverQuest II is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Sony Online Entertainment , based on EverQuest, and shipped on 8 November 2004...

, Tom Chilton

Tom Chilton

Thomas James Chilton is a British auto racing driver. He has spent most of his career competing in the BTCC; he is a former factory Vauxhall and Honda driver. For 2011 he is driving an NGTC-spec Ford Focus for Team Aon...

, lead designer of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, often referred to as TBC or BC, is the first expansion pack for the MMORPG World of Warcraft...

, David Perry, lead designer of 2Moons, Stieg Hedlund

Stieg Hedlund

Stieg Hedlund is a computer and video game designer, artist, and writer with over 20 years of experience who has worked on more than 30 games in the video game industry...

, design director of Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising

Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising

Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising is the title of an MMORPG made by Heatwave Interactive. The game is set in the world of Ancient Rome, and combines historical elements and enemies with mythological ones...

, Chris McKibbin, president of Perpetual Entertainment

Perpetual Entertainment

Perpetual Entertainment, founded in March 2002, was an American developer, publisher and operator of networked multiplayer games and MMORPGs. Their headquarters were in San Francisco, California, USA. From October 2007 to February 2008 the company was known as P2 Entertainment...

, Mike Goslin, vice president of Virtual Reality Studio, Dan Elggren, senior producer at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Daron Stinnett, executive producer at Perpetual Entertainment

Perpetual Entertainment

Perpetual Entertainment, founded in March 2002, was an American developer, publisher and operator of networked multiplayer games and MMORPGs. Their headquarters were in San Francisco, California, USA. From October 2007 to February 2008 the company was known as P2 Entertainment...

, Josh Drescher, senior designer for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting. It was developed by Mythic Entertainment and simultaneously released in North and South Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand on September 18, 2008...

, and Aaron Cohen, producer of Ultima Online

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is a graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game , released on September 24, 1997, by Origin Systems. It was instrumental to the development of the genre, and is still running today...

.

History

The company known as WarCry Corp. was started in 1997 by Alexander Macris. Originally a developer and publisher of online games, in 2001 WarCry acquired the assets of Crossroads Gaming Network (also known as XRGaming) in an undisclosed private transaction. The merged company took the WarCry name as WarCry Corp., but dropped the online gaming angle to concentrate on more coverage of games, particularly massively multiplayer which had been XRGaming's stock in trade. Whilst popular, XRGaming had been suffering in the midst of the Dot.com bust and WarCry's funding enabled both to survive.

WarCry is owned and operated completely by Themis Group, which was also founded by Alexander Macris. On July 12, 2005 Themis Group launched The Escapist

The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist is an online magazine covering video games, gamers, the gaming industry, and gaming culture. Published by the Themis Group, it was edited by Julianne Greer up to June 30, 2009, then by Russ Pitts through September 2011, and is currently edited by Steve Butts. The Escapist was first...

, which runs using the same software and a similar layout to WarCry.com. On October 6, 2008 Themis Group announced they would be focusing their full company efforts on The Escapist and WarCry.

Coverage

The WarCry Network specializes in covering numerous popular MMOGs. The network itself has numerous daughter sites dedicated to covering almost all aspects of the games it covers. It has specific database pages for no less than 29 different online games, including extremely popular games such as World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...

, Everquest 2, Lineage II

Lineage II

Lineage II is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows. It is a prequel to Lineage, and is set 150 years before the earlier game. It has become very popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 1,000,918 unique users during the month of March 2007...

, City of Heroes

City of Heroes

City of Heroes is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft. The game was launched in North America on April 27, 2004 and in Europe on February 4, 2005 with English, German and French language...

 and even the aging Dark Age of Camelot

Dark Age of Camelot

Dark Age of Camelot is a 3D medieval fantasy MMORPG, released on October 10 2001 in North America and in Europe shortly after through it's partner GOA. It is still running today recently celebrating its 10th anniversary....

. The WarCry network now covers games, movies, anime, comics and other parts of the entertainment industry, supplied by a network of contributors and user-submitted content. Similar to many print gaming magazines, the WarCry network conducted its own "Editor's Choice Awards" in 2006.

Some of their contemporaries include TenTonHammer.com

Ten Ton Hammer

"Ten Ton Hammer" is the first track on the heavy metal band Machine Head's second album The More Things Change..., as well as being the first song released from the album. A video was also made for the song. It is the third track featured on the band's live album Hellalive...

, IGN

IGN

IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...

's Vault Network

Vault Network

The Vault Network, or VN, is a game network dedicated to role-playing video games , providing gamers with information such as news, editorials, guides, hints and tips, as well as discussion...

, Stratics

Stratics

Stratics is an Internet network of web sites and message boards focusing on massively multiplayer games. It is the oldest continuously running MMORPG news site on the internet....

 and the Coldfront Gaming Network.

Impact on the gaming community

Many gaming news sites index and/or link to articles that were originally published on WarCry. Some of the editorials published on the network have been used as sources by other articles as well. Many of their interviews with game developers have been referenced to by other online news sites.

Some official game websites have considered the network significant enough so as to reference them on their official websites. For example, Lineage II

Lineage II

Lineage II is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows. It is a prequel to Lineage, and is set 150 years before the earlier game. It has become very popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 1,000,918 unique users during the month of March 2007...

's news site stated that WarCry had exclusive coverage of their "Lineage II Battle Tournament". Paris-based NEVRAX, makers of the massively-multiplayer online game The Saga of Ryzom, has also mentioned the WarCry Network in an official press release, alongside notable industry news sources such as GameSpy and Computer Gaming World.

In light of their 2006 Editor's Choice Awards, many game developers have also acknowledged the network on their own official websites. Cryptic Studios

Cryptic Studios

Cryptic Studios, a wholly owned Perfect World subsidiary, is a small American massively multiplayer online role-playing game developer headquartered in Los Gatos, California.-History:...

, makers of the massively multiplayer City of Heroes

City of Heroes

City of Heroes is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft. The game was launched in North America on April 27, 2004 and in Europe on February 4, 2005 with English, German and French language...

 and Marvel Universe Online

Marvel Universe Online

Marvel Universe is a browser-based Massively multiplayer online game currently under developement by Gazillion Entertainment in San Mateo California. The MMOG is designed by Secret Identity Studios and will be similar to, sister game, Marvel Super Hero Squad Online...

 games referenced their Editor's Choice Award on their official news site. Another major MMOG, EVE Online

EVE Online

Eve Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is a player-driven, persistent-world MMORPG set in a science fiction space setting. Characters pilot customizable ships through a galaxy of over 7,500 star systems. Most star systems are connected to one or more other star systems by means of stargates...

, acknowledged WarCry for naming their Revelations expansion, "Expansion of the Year" on their front page.