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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New indie MMO Legendarium Online claims inspiration from Ultima Online and Tolkien
Like a prairie dog popping its head above ground to check out the scene, a new indie MMORPG suddenly emerged to make its presence...
Global Chat: What makes an ‘MMO’ an MMO?
Pulling back to look at the very big picture of it all, Tipa at Chasing Dings asks a pretty relevant question in this ever-shifting...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s exhausting constant hype cycle
When I saw that there was an event happening on Thursday for World of Warcraft's next patch, I had to do a double-take. I...
World of Warcraft contemplates buyable trader’s tender and an old world revamp
We all learned about World of Warcraft's Guardians of the Dream patch in terms of its overall location and content offerings yesterday, along with...
Massively Overthinking: The dumbest deaths in MMORPGs
This past week has been amusing for everyone in the MMO community and beyond who loves to watch people die stupid deaths in video...
World of Warcraft’s Guardians of the Dream sends players to the Emerald Dream itself
As teased, Blizzard has unveiled World of Warcraft's Guardians of the Dream, giving little breathing space between it and the just-released Fury Incarnate as...
Vague Patch Notes: The specter of racially locked classes in MMOs and before
One of the things I've taken on multiple times in this column is the concept of gender-locked classes, which are bad, and if you...
World of Warcraft is promising big reveals for patch 10.2, Guardians of the Dream, today
(Update: The full reveal is up now.)
Hey, remember patch 10.1.7 for World of Warcraft that got hyped up extensively before it launched back in...
Perfect Ten: 10 of the worst launches in MMO history
Launch time is a difficult time for every MMO, and honestly, I have nothing but sympathy for the teams launching a new game at...
World of Warcraft’s Fury Incarnate is out with Dreamsurges and heroic Dawn of the Infinite
Blizzard is absolutely ragin' - that is, Fury Incarnate went live for World of Warcraft's retail version last night. As promised, the update includes...
World of Warcraft sees its WoW Token soar to record heights
World of Warcraft has set a new record, but it's not one that most players will find themselves excited over. The WoW token --...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually use in-game mail in MMOs for communication?
I had the realization a few weeks back that mail has lost a lot of meaning in MMOs, the same way many people have...
WoW Classic shares ‘gruesome data’ from hardcore’s first week
Now that WoW Classic admits that it'll never be able to put a number other than "0" over the sign "Days Since a Player...
Tarisland previews invasion strike content and scribed stone skill mechanics
You know, for a game everyone expected to be a temport WoW clone, Tarisland sure is getting a whole lot of effort and re-localization...
WoW Factor: What would World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’ even look like?
So before I start this column, I want to make something very clear: I do not for one moment, in my heart of hearts,...
Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
Previewing New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion: Artifact gear, endgame, crafting, and onward
In my previous Vitae Aeternum column, I covered the big tentpole features of New World's first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, including...
World of Warcraft drops a launch cinematic video for next week’s Fury Incarnate patch
Have you gotten enough of cinematics in which Bad Guy does Mean Thing before Bad But More Reasonable Woman stops him, and then has...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 435: Guild Wars 2’s secrets revealed
Justin and Bree discuss Gamescom, Nightingale, Crimson Desert, WoW Classic's hardcore servers, ArcheAge's devastating merge, and TennoCon's Warframe and Soulframe news, with adventures in LOTRO, Baldur's Gate 3, and Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's latest teases.
Casually Classic: Hardcore realms are merely a Band-Aid for WoW Classic
Let's pause for a hot minute to absorb the fact that WoW Classic just hit its fourth anniversary. For the reheated leftovers of an...
