If you get tired of playing in the beta test of Warhammer Online, why not go low-tech with a novel based on the upcoming MMO. Games Workshop's book division Black Library has just released Warhammer Online: Empire of Chaos, the first prose novel that's written to be specifically based on the Mythic Entertainment title.

Written by veteran Warhammer novelist Anthony Reynolds, the novel's storyline "follows the journey of Annaliese Jager as she escapes her destroyed village only to be swept up in an epic battle to save the Empire from the marauding forces of Chaos. Joined by an injured High Elf, a grizzled Witch Hunter, and a Dwarf Ironbreaker, she will battle along side the armies of the Empire and Dwarfs against greenskin tribes and the dreaded Chaos Raven Host. Together, this unlikely band of heroes must fight like never before to turn back the tides of darkness, or the future of the Empire is doomed." The book, the first of a series of Warhammer Online novels, is now in bookstores.