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Blizzard’s sometimes-annual convention in Anaheim. Official site: BlizzCon

Take a look at Diablo III’s Necromancer class cinematic intro video

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Ever since last year's BlizzCon when Blizzard announced the Rise of the Necromancer pack for Diablo III, we've known the classic class was coming...
It's all gone to hell!

World of Warcraft broadcasts arena cup e-sports tourney today, sells second batch of BlizzCon tix

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At 2:00 p.m. EDT today, World of Warcraft players looking to test their mettle in PvP will be clashing in the game's first arena...

Good luck getting your BlizzCon tickets today

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Just a heads up if you were going to try your hand at snagging a ticket to this November's BlizzCon, as your first of...
NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT

Analysts peg Overwatch League at a potential $100 million in its first year

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One of the big announcements from last year's BlizzCon was the addition of the new Overwatch League, a project Blizzard is using to help...
Just absolute galaxy brain

WoW Factor: The good and the bad of World of Warcraft’s patch 7.2 date

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Boy, this is a time I am glad to be wrong. I was outright worried that Blizzard was going to hold patch 7.2 for...
oh no not again

BlizzCon 2017 to be held on November 3-4

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There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and another BlizzCon every year even if Blizzard has absolutely nothing new to announce. Then again,...
Can we?

Blizzard is considering WoW competitive raiding e-sports again

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If you were annoyed by the apparent subsumption of World of Warcraft art and lore panels by other games' e-sports at last year's BlizzCon,...
Fight for something, probably, whatever.

The Elysium WoW emulator community is in total meltdown

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The Elysium World of Warcraft private server community is in total meltdown, so popcorn at the ready. Most MMORPG players would probably have never heard...

WoW emu Elysium suffers serious ‘database compromise’

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One of the downsides of grey-market game emulators for the end-user is that security isn't always a priority. Case in point? Elysium suffered a...

Nostalrius has decided handing its WoW emu code to Elysium wasn’t such a good idea after all

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So here's a twist in the Nostalrius saga that we didn't see coming: The group has changed its mind about supporting its code on...
We are great at our jobs.

Diablo III’s Darkening of Tristram ‘retrovision’ anniversary event is live

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Classic ARPG Diablo has made its presence known across Blizzard's many franchises this week as it celebrates its 20th birthday, from a new cow level...

MMO Year in Review: New Eden free-for-all (November 2016)

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This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
Overpowered.

Perfect Ten: Biggest MMORPG surprises of 2016

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Back at the beginning of December, I posted a list of what I considered to be the biggest MMORPG stories of 2016. However, there...
FEEL THE NOISE

The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day

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Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...

25000 people have signed up for the new Nostalrius server so far

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According to a tweet by the original folks behind Nostalrius, the new version of the World of Warcraft classic emulator has already (or only,...

Elysium gears up for Nostalrius emu character transfers and relaunch

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Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a threat, demanding that the game studio create official vanilla...
It also featured fewer Dwarven Shaman, simply because the WIldhammer just did their own things.

Nostalrius is resurrecting next week. Your move, Blizzard.

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After a yearlong saga that involved the shutdown of an illegal World of Warcraft emulator, fan outcry, Blizzard's high-profile meet-and-greet with the emulator's devs,...
Everybody dies.

WoW Factor: Looking forward to World of Warcraft 7.2

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It's been a little while, friends, but that happens. Last time I was making bets about what we'd see for World of Warcraft at...
Oh. Good.

The Daily Grind: Will players always trump NPCs as MMO PvP adversaries?

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Prolific MOP commenter Sally Bowls posted a note last week that stood out to me as something we should all be seriously considering. Most...
Yes, yes it is.

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016

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As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...

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