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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The Game Archaeologist: Lucasfilm’s Habitat
Some of you reading this may simply never have known a world before the internet existed by virtue of your age. It's not your...
Perfect Ten: The 10 MMO memories we all have
I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12Â years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...
Ask Mo: The state of Massively Overpowered
Ask Mo is back, and today Mo and I are answering a few meta questions about Massively OP itself. Our first question is from long-time...
The Daily Grind: What are your fall MMO gaming plans?
Hope you had a good summer, 'cause it's pretty much over. Yes ma'am, we're staring right into the pumpkin spice corridor known as "fall,"...
Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time
In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...
World of Warcraft welcomes players back to the skies
It's been a good while since World of Warcraft players have been able to fly in high-level zones, but as of today the skies...
Russian site leaks 40 seconds of the Warcraft movie trailer
World of Warcraft fans continue to eagerly await the release of the Warcraft movie trailer in a couple of months. If they -- or...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO testing experience you’ve ever had?
I know I'm not alone in feeling beta-fatigue. I hear the same things I feel from you folks in our comments and from our...
WoW’s 6.2.2 patch launches tomorrow
If you're still playing World of Warcraft, you may or may not be aware that the game's 6.2.2 patch debuts on September 1st. It...
WoW Factor: Wild guessing about Demon Hunters
So what's the deal with World of Warcraft's Demon Hunter? We just don't know yet. But the space to speculate is pretty awesome.
I mentioned...
Eco as an academic tool: Educating with PvE survival and permadeath
Like the idea of survival games, but not PvP? Wish your class involved video games? Maybe you want to doom humanity to choking itself...
Guild Chat: Finding MMO fun without your guildmates
Good news, everyone: I'm back with an unexpected edition of Guild Chat for you! Observant Massively Overpowered readers might have noticed that I rotate...
Blizzard joins S&P 500 stock market index
If it wasn't clear before now, Blizzard's debut on a stock index further goes to show that the game studio is one of the...
Perfect Ten: Amazing MMO cosplay
I have nothing but deep respect for cosplayers because on two levels they are performing activities that I cannot. First of all, they put...
Mobile game replicates the World of Warcraft raid healing experience
Healers are the often unsung heroes of any MMO raid, spending hours staring at health bars while the rest of the group gets to...
World of Warcraft unlocks Archimonde fight for raid finder
There's now nothing standing between you and PUG raid success in World of Warcraft's Hellfire Citadel, except perhaps gear, skill, and ill-timed AFKs.
Blizzard announced...
Global Chat: Returning to WildStar for F2P
Many WildStar fans, past and present, are digging into the sumptuous buffet of the free-to-play patch on the test server for a better idea...
One Shots: Quiet grace
When I take pictures of people in real life, I almost never ask them to pose. That feels so artificial to me; I'd rather...
The Game Archaeologist: Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE
It became one of the most infamous moments in MMO history -- and perhaps one of the most misunderstood.
For all that the MMO community...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO prison?
Fictional prisons can be pretty fascinating to explore in books and video games. I've noticed that pretty much every MMO has at least one...
