Please join us on Saturday, July 7, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of The Sims Online at 10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta
• irc.gamers-irc.org 6668, USA - Colorado

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

We will be discussing general topics with the developers, and open chat will be in our IRC channel #sims-online before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

Please join us on Thursday, July 5, 2007, for a House ofCommons with the developers of UltimaOnline at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PMEastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on StraticsIRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use ofyour favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choosea suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 orwhichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.gamers-irc.org port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may befound right here. You must haveJava installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

During the chat, we'll be discussing general topics with thedevelopers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #ultima-onlinebefore, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

Now is your chance to win a ticket to one of the biggest events this year, BLIZZCON!

Thanks to Blizzard, WoW Stratics is able to give away two BlizzCon tickets this year.

Want to go? Our BlizzCon contest this year is a "Funny Screenshot" contest. If you are talented in taking hilarious screenshots in WoW then adding an out of this world caption, this could be your chance to win!

Head on into our forums to see how you can enter!

Good luck everyone!

Please join us on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of EverQuest at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.gamers-irc.org port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

We will be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #everquest before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

Please join us on Wednesday, May 30, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of Planetside at 4:00 PM Pacific / 7:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.gamers-irc.org port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

During the chat, we'll be be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #planetside before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

It's super easy to take part!

Go look at the screenshot! Then head over to this thread and enter what you think is the perfect caption! Please only one caption per post! At the end of two weeks, our staff will pick 10 entries and everyone will get to vote on the winner.

The prizes? An XL WAAAAAGH T-shirt, a Warhammer Calander (2007) and the Warhammer book "Giantslayer" by William King! (As soon as the digital camera un-dies there'll be pictures!)

If you're not a registered user for our forums, signing up is free! So why not enter today!

As always, the people up top tell me I must link to the rules. The big one to remember is that we'll only accept one final entry per person!

Enter today, and good luck everyone!!

Please join us tonight, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of EverQuest Online Adventures at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our new Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.gamers-irc.org port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

We will be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #everquest before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

We have recently drummed up a nice little contest for all of our Blizzard HoC attendees on Monday the 21^st. 

Thanks to Ideazone, we will be giving away three Zboards with The Burning Crusade Keysets as well as ten new FragMats,which is a new mouse pad from Ideazone.

At the conclusion of the the HoC chat we will put up two trivia questions. The trivia questions will be announced by Brannoc and any entries must also be sent ONLY to Brannoc via pm. The first three people to correctly answer both trivia questions will receive a Zboard, TBC key set as well a FragMat mouse pad. The next seven people to correctly answer just the second trivia question correctly will receive an Ancient Enemies or Eternal Conflict FragMat mouse pad. Please do not resubmit your questions, only one entry per person is allowed. Any duplicate entries will disqualify you.

Please be advised, if you enter the trivia contest you will have to supply a valid email address, physical address and a phone number to receive your prize.

This of course has been added to our HoC invite page!  Good luck everyone! 

Please join us on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of EverQuest at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our new Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.gamers-irc.org port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

We will be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #everquest before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

WAR Stratics: I'd be remiss if I didn't ask, even though I know you can't answer! Anything new regarding beta you can tell us? When it might move into the next phase, how many players total might be lucky enough to get in?

Richard: Look at it this way, every day that passes is a day I get asked this question eleventy billion times, and I never answer it, other than that every one of those days is one day closer to the start of beta.

Head on over to our forums and chat about the interview, and give your feedback!

Please join us on Monday, May 14, 2007 for a House of Commons with the developers of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you.

• stratics.frws.com USA - Colorado 6667 6668 7000
  
• irc.glowfish.de EU - Germany 6667 6668
  
• stratics.afraidyet.net USA - Texas 6667 6668
  
• irc.gamers-irc.org USA - Colorado 6667 6668 7000

Please join us on Saturday, May 12, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of Acclaim's Project Top Secret, lead by none other than David Perry, at 1:00 PM Pacific / 4:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.gamers-irc.org port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

During the chat, we will be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #topsecret before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

n May 15, 2007 join WoW Stratics for a House of Commons with the Developers of World of Warcraft at 3 PM Pacific / 6 PM Eastern / 11 PM GMT in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you.

• stratics.frws.com USA
• irc.stratics.com - USA
• irc.gamers-irc.org - USA
• us.irc.stratics.com USA
• irc.glowfish.de Germany

• chat.stratics.com USA
• webchat-us.glowfish.de USA
• webchat-de.glowfish.de Germany, Duesseldorf

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

Please note: Questions for this HoC can only be submitted before the chat. No questions will be taken during the chat. We will have [QT]'s available 48 hours before the HoC chat is scheduled to start. You can submit your questions at that time to any user with a [QT] in front of their name. [QT]'s are Question Takers who also have operator status in the #StraticsHoC channel.  To submit your questions just type the following command:  /msg [QT]Bot# Question here. All questions will be recorded automatically, in order to ensure this please submit one question per line.

Open chat will be available for discussing World of Warcraft in our IRC channel #worldofwarcraft before, during, and after the chat.

We hope to see you there!

Please join us on Wednesday, May 2, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of Planetside at 4:00 PM Pacific / 7:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you.

• stratics.frws.com USA - Colorado 6667 6668 7000
• irc.glowfish.de EU - Germany 6667 6668
• stratics.afraidyet.net USA - Texas 6667 6668
• irc.gamers-irc.org USA - Colorado 6667 6668 7000

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

During the chat, we'll be holding some trivia, with your chance to win some prizes! We will also be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #planetside before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

For those of you who follow the WoW Stratics Podcasts, you already know a contest was in the works for you faithful listeners, and well…we suppose we can make an exception and the rest of you that read this can participate as well. Anyway, that contest idea has finally come to fruition and WoW Stratics proudly presents 'Riddle Me WoW'd!'

First off, we'll show you ours. What's up for grabs to you lucky people is One Grand Prize of the WarCraft Sunwell Trilogy set, books 1, 2, and 3, which can be viewed in the WoW Merchandise section here on WoW Stratics. Two Runners-Up will also receive a WoW TCG Pin. All participants who submit a valid entry will receive a special custom avatar related to the contest for use across Stratics Forums or wherever you choose to post, and the Grand Prize Winner and Runners-Up will also receive an additional special avatar for bragging purposes.

Now you show us yours—the rules are simple. All entries are to be emailed to wow@stratics.com and must be received by Friday, May 4th, at Midnight Central Standard Time. A valid entry must include your name, a valid email address, your Stratics forum username if you have one, and of course your three answers. PMs or personal emails will not be considered, and this contest is not open to WoW Stratics Staff.

Now, here's the clincher. To find out the riddles, you MUST listen to WoWCast #7 dated April 29th, 2007. The winning entries will be announced, as well as the answers to the riddles, in WoWCast #8 on May 6 th.

Now you have three riddles to mull over while you game away, so without further adieu, we bid you all good luck!

So ye be wanting ta test dat dere Pirates o' da Burning Sea game eh? But ye not quite got that rascally beta key ya be needing to unlock that pirate's chest aight? Well 'ave no fear, we 'ere at Stratics 'ave been busy pirating and got ye some Beta Keys.....

Not quite into the pirate talk? Have no fear, we'll put it into plain english for you. Stratics has 100 beta keys to give away, which we will do over a period of six weeks with three different contests. The first contest is simple. The last two are harder and harder as the number of keys remaining will be slim pickings for those of you that drag your feet.

So here's how it's gonna work. The first 75 of you to email me at kayhynn@stratics.com AFTER you register for beta on the official site (click here to do so) with your username you registered with, your email address you registered with and your first and last name will receive a beta key. It's that simple.

In two weeks we'll have another contest. This time for 15 keys. So keep an eye out...if ye be wantin' ta 'ave a place ter be sportin' a fancy eyepatch!

Kayhynn

Please join us on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of EverQuest at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our new Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

We will be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #everquest before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!

• Star Wars Galaxies


• Final Fantasy XI


• Guild Wars


• RF Online

Please join us on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, for a House of Commons with the developers of Planetside at 5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC.

You can connect to one of our IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client or you can visit our new Downloads section to choose a suitable client. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668 or whichever server is closest to you:

• stratics.frws.com port 6668, USA - Colorado
• irc.glowfish.de port 6668, EU - Germany
• stratics.afraidyet.net 6668, USA - Atlanta

You may also connect through our handy Java link which may be found right here. You must have Java installed to use this which can be downloaded from the Java homepage.

We will be discussing general topics with the developers, and general chat will be in our IRC channel #planetside before, during, and after the House of Commons.

We hope to see you there!