Official Site:Â World of Warcraft
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â November 23, 2014
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Blizzard promises a ‘robust footprint’ at Gamescom for WoW, Diablo, and Overwatch 2 celebrations
During not-E3's Xbox showcase, Blizzard hinted very strongly that it would have more reveals and festivities coming later in the summer, which made sense...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 473: How do you define an MMO?
Justin and Bree discuss EVE Online Equinox, EverQuest and EverQuest II expansions and progression servers, New World Aeternum, and Wayfinder's relaunch, with adventures in Project Gorgon, LOTRO, WoW, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on balancing news coverage, Once Human, and defining MMOs.
SGF 2024: Hands-on with NCsoft’s long-awaited Throne and Liberty, launching September 17
Most of the games I played at Summer Game Fest were more enjoyable than I expected - including Throne and Liberty, which was probably...
Second Wind: Final thoughts on returning to World of Warcraft in 2024, from community to dragonriding
At long last, we've reached the fourth and final part of my series detailing my experiences returing to World of Warcraft after six years...
Vague Patch Notes: Housing is really back in MMORPGs
I haven't really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2's upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because... well, I'm not our GW2 columnist,...
World of Warcraft general manager John Hight leaves Blizzard ‘to explore new opportunities and challenges’
The World of Warcraft team and Blizzard at large has seen another one of its long-standing senior devs leave the company. After 12 years,...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
Global Chat: So many questions about Guild Wars 2’s housing
With the news that Guild Wars 2 is adding homesteads in its next expansion, Nerdy Bookahs is not alone in asking a whole ton...
WoW Classic promises new runes, boss changes, and Molten Core for Season of Discovery’s Phase 4
Even though WoW Classic's fourth phase for its Season of Discovery has been delayed in order to let the other variants of the MMORPG...
WoW Factor: The streak The War Within needs to break for World of Warcraft
On November 13th, 2008, World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, was released to an eager population. The prior expansion, The...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 472: Guild Wars 2 and New World’s wild ride
Justin and Bree discuss New World's console reveal, Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds, Legends of Aria, FFXIV Dawntrail's media tour, WoW The War Within, and Diablo IV's expansion, plus adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Project Gorgon, and Ylands.
SGF 2024: Elder Scrolls Online opens free play promo, Fallout 76 prepares for this week’s Skyline Valley
At last night's Summer Game Fest's Xbox showcase, Blizzard may have stolen the show with its launch date for World of Warcraft The War...
World of Warcraft The War Within launches August 26, Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred launches October 8
As some rightly predicted while looking at the end of Pandaria Remix on August 19th, World of Warcraft's next expansion is coming very soon...
Global Chat: FFXIV’s out-of-control cutscene scene
Here's a terrifying and fascinating fact: Did you know that Final Fantasy XIV's cutscenes now total up to 159 hours of non-interactive, viewable-only content?
Gamer...
Betawatch: World of Warcraft’s The War Within beta testing
It's time once again for the beta testing of World of Warcraft to go into overdrive, as the next expansion is now available for...
Vague Patch Notes: Chasing the metagame in MMOs isn’t the metagame at all
So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...
World of Warcraft answers crafting questions about The War Within
World of Warcraft's The War Within beta is in full swing, and that means that this is the ideal time for players to advocate...
Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...
Warcraft Rumble rolls into its first raid with Molten Core
The iconic World of Warcraft vanilla raid now gets its own pint-sized version in Warcraft Rumble, as the mobile title introduced Molten Core this...
World of Warcraft: The War Within begins beta testing
"To preserve our world, we must face the shadow."
With this call to action, World of Warcraft's newest expansion invites in beta testers from around...