world of warcraft

Official Site: World of Warcraft
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: November 23, 2014
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

COVID-19 roundup: #PlayApartTogether, Blade & Soul perks, and Twitch Aid’s $2.7M charity raise

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of pandemic-related MMO and gaming news. We'll start with the big one: The World Health Organization, which made...

Not So Massively: StarCraft II has quietly become Blizzard’s best-managed property

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While I do think the studio's actions at BlizzCon are encouraging, it still feels weird heaping praise on Blizzard right now. But I also...

Blizzard sends out a Burning Crusade Classic survey, says farewell to Diablo III’s community manager

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It's time to throw a whole armful of kindling onto the smoldering fire that is rumors of a WoW Classic Burning Crusade server. Wowhead...

LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s Hytbold experiment

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The landscape of any long-running MMORPG is bound to be littered with various developer experiments that were tried and later abandoned. Lord of the...
Herp to the derp.

WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Legion

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Ah, good. This one is more fun than last week. As much as the latter half of World of Warcraft expansions heads into more...
A dispatch from the days when I bothered.

World of Warcraft adds in Legacy Loot mode for Legion raids and dungeons

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As the saying goes, it's better late than never. Adding in Legacy Loot for World of Warcraft's prior expansion (Legion) certainly feels late at...
Thanks, I hate it.

SuperData February 2020: Fortnite returns to the top 10 as analysts predict COVID-19 impacts

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SuperData is back with another monthly report on the state of the games industry's revenue, unbowed and unbent from its tussle with Epic Games...

The Daily Grind: What once-popular MMORPG terminology has fallen out of use?

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Let's play with words. A while back I saw someone describing the act of MMO banksitting on Twitter without actually using the term. It's one...

Felicia Day releases an unifinished World of Warcraft machinima sitcom

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Say you're stuck in self-imposed or locally mandated quarantine in the wake of the novel coronavirus and you've blitzed through all of your TV...
The fanboy mines are harder to work all the time.

Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the time he was a gold farmer in World of Warcraft (for research)

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Apparently, Gabe Newell -- you know, the billionaire president of Valve who has enough money to, say, throw it into the bonfire of rejiggering...
Fine, whatever.

World of Warcraft shows even more flexibility with its essence system

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We all know that getting Blizzard to be flexible is like slathering Bengay onto your arthritic grandparent and urging them to join you in...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been hit by an MMO banhammer?

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When I wrote the above question, I had to sit back for a long minute to think over the two-plus decades of my MMO...
You're here!

Betawatch: Phantasy Star Online 2’s open beta arrived

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The world feels really strange right now, and Phantasy Star Online 2 is in open beta in North America right now. Are those two...

World of Warships offers free premium play, World of Warcraft doubles experience during the outbreak

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If you're not used to being home a lot, you're probably a little twitchy right now and angling for something to do. Fear not:...

The Game Archaeologist: Shenmue Online

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If you ever stumble across a Dreamcast enthusiast -- and believe me, they are everywhere -- on the forefront of their diatribe about how...
Do you really want to hurt me?

WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Warlords of Draenor

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Oh barf. Yes, folks, it... it had to happen. We had to get to this expansion. I know, none of us really want to. World of Warcraft...

GDC plans summer events as studios from Gamigo to Blizzard to Riot see player surges

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread here in the US and around much of the world, changing life for nearly everyone - even in...

Massively Overthinking: What MMO topics have you changed your mind on over the years?

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On last week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering a fun question from MOP reader and listener Pieter about...

Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be

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"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...
Torgy torgy

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands gets another encrypted alpha build

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If you're one of the World of Warcraft players eagerly awaiting more news about Shadowlands, you may be a bit nonplussed that the latest...

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