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World of Warcraft Classic starts hiring for its team
It may be a ways away, but World of Warcraft Classic is on the road to becoming a reality. Blizzard posted at least two...
Closers Online’s closed beta has officially begun
Closers' closed beta servers are open! But only open to those in the closed beta. So not really open. Just live. I'm making the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 143: BlizzCon strikes back
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon, WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion and legacy servers, Marvel Heroes' drama, the fate of Motiga and Runic, DCUO, WildStar, Kritika, and Wild West Online, with a mailbag question on MMOs that lock classes and races behind paywalls.
Overwatch brings Moira to the test server
Fans of certain Blizzard games are going to be waiting a while - possibly even a year - to start playing the cool stuff...
World of Warcraft Classic announcement sends shockwaves through the vanilla emulator community
As the World of Warcraft community grapples with the surprise BlizzCon announcement of a classic server, one subset of players in particular are feeling...
The Daily Grind: Will you be playing World of Warcraft’s Classic servers?
I think it's safe to say, after all the Nostalrius and legacy server drama from last year, that Blizzard has surprised a lot of...
BlizzCon 2016: Where’s the love for Diablo II and Warcraft III?
We were all prepared for the lack of Diablo III news from BlizzCon, in spite of the franchise's huge following. But what we we...
Game devs react angrily to ESA’s support of government tax proposal
Last week, the Entertainment Software Association, the video game trade association you probably know best from its stewardship of E3, released a contentious statement...
BlizzCon gamers react to, reflect on Overwatch toxicity
Toxicity in online gaming is easily one of the biggest stories of the year, particularly in Overwatch, where Blizzard has been focusing its anti-toxicity...
WoW Factor: Understanding World of Warcraft’s upcoming Heart of Azeroth system
The release of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is going to bring with it a lot of core system changes. This is neither...
BlizzCon 2017: Check out Overwatch’s rejected heroes
A cat sporting a rocket-powered backpack. A hang gliding alligator. A flamethrower-sporting monkey. A decked-out hockey player. A bowler. A flaming head.
These were among...
The Daily Grind: Will you be buying World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion?
In last week's Daily Grind about what it would take to get you back into World of Warcraft, a whole lot of our commenters...
One Shots: The drinks are on us
Last week's (last) call for tavern and inn images seemed to bring out the nostalgic in all of our readers. It certainly didn't take...
The Daily Grind: What did you think of BlizzCon this year?
I am writing this on Tuesday. This means that the version of me writing this has no idea what has been revealed at BlizzCon....
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth expansion live Q&A liveblog
Ah, here we go again. It's time for our final liveblog of BlizzCon 2017, and it's the World of Warcraft Q&A. And they're live...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft art panel liveblog
Remember how last year, we got an enormous amount of art discussion during a panel that really should have been about systems? Or was...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft’s classic server will be a ‘massive effort’
In the process of picking yourself up off of the floor following Friday's announcement of World of Warcraft Classic at BlizzCon 2017? As your...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft gameplay and systems panel liveblog
The gameplay and systems panel is always very important to World of Warcraft. You found out long ago (well, a few hours ago) about...
BlizzCon 2017: Everything you need to know about World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion
Blizzard made several major announcements for World of Warcraft today that you probably need to know about if you're a current or even a...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft announces Battle for Azeroth expansion
Enough of World of Warcraft's two biggest factions palling together on adventures across time and space -- war has come to this game once...
