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 World of Warcraft ad reminds you that you get your own dragon partner in Dragonflight like Pedro Pascal
Hollywood celebrities get things that you will never, ever get, sadly. The newest advertisement for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight stars Pedro Pascal, Lana Condor,...
Wrath Classic tests Titan Rune dungeons, while WoW posts Dragonflight short story
With all of the attention and hype being focused on World of Warcraft: Dragonflight this month, a fan of the franchise might be forgiven...
World of Warcraft’s lead narrative designer Steve Danuser tries to clarify Titan waters affecting dragon whelps
As of this writing, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is not yet available for players, but already some of the new lore for the expansion...
Vitae Aeternum: The storm clouds on New World’s horizon
New World has improved considerably since launch. I've had a lot of praise for the changes Amazon has made, and I'm looking forward to...
WoW Factor: First impressions of the Dracthyr Evoker
With the second part of the Dragonflight pre-patch live, I have now been granted an ability I did not particularly want in World of...
World of Warcraft offers free play weekend, posts Dragonflight release times
With a little over a week to go before World of Warcraft: Dragonflight releases, Blizzard is doing all it can to draw lapsed players...
Massively Overthinking: Changing ‘mains’ in MMOs
When I first started MMOs, the idea of mains and alts was bizarre to me. Why would I spend time on a second character...
World of Warcraft’s Morgan Day addresses class tuning and design for Dragonflight
Class tuning in World of Warcraft is something that has been argued about basically since the game first launched and continues to be debated,...
WoW Factor: So Blizzard just lost China
Sometimes it's not fun to work in this particular industry. Not in the sense that it's horrible, but in the sense that you've written...
WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and more to sunset in China following failed Blizzard-Netease licensing deal
Last week, as part of its Q3 2022 investor report, Activision-Blizzard included what we described as an ominous note about its apparent difficulties negotiating...
Why I Play: World of Warcraft, 2022 edition
Have you ever watched The Good Place? If you haven't, I suggest you stop reading right now and go watch. Your life will be...
World of Warcraft moves into its second Dragonflight pre-patch phase with Dracthyr Evokers
Azeroth is closed for the time being while Blizzard prepares the second phase of its World of Warcraft: Dragonflight pre-patch for later today. This...
The Daily Grind: Should the MMO genre take another stab at esports?
A few years ago, there was a concerted push in the MMO genre to design, amplify, and boost esports, and I don't just mean...
Riot MMO lead still cagey about game details as he talks about career and online RPG design
While it is not the detail-laden treasure chest of information that fans of Riot's upcoming Runeterra MMORPG were hoping to hear, a recent interview...
One Shots: Officially up to no good
Hey, I hope everyone had a good week of recovery from all of those MMO Halloween festivities because One Shots is back -- and...
Wow Factor: Welcome the desert of the real Blizzard
This entire column came about because our team was discussing World of Warcraft at work and I observed something kind of odd: The Dracthyr...
The Daily Grind: How frustrated do you get with MMO delays?
With all of the MMO releases happening this month, I was banking on the rollout of New World's fresh start servers, LOTRO: Before the...
World of Warcraft shows off the Evokers ahead of the second half of the pre-patch next week
Next week will let players turn on the dragon-related firehoses in World of Warcraft, at least insofar as letting players make their very own...
Perfect Ten: 10 metrics to check to gauge MMO success or failure
There are a lot of MMOs out there. How do you know which one of them is the most popular and therefore the best...
World of Warcraft covers more of the Dracthyr history with the latest installment of Legacies
So we've had a tour through draconic history in World of Warcraft over the first couple of installments of the Legacies animated shorts. But...