shadowlands
WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour in review
All right. I've now been on this expansion tour for... well, seven weeks, but it feels like years. Partly because it meant covering a...
World of Warcraft updates its quest icons, director Ion Hazzikostas talks big changes
The floating "!" has become such an iconic part of World of Warcraft's interface that it's hard to imagine it ever going away... and...
The Daily Grind: Do you expect any (other) MMOs to be delayed over the pandemic?
With so many MMO studios working-from-home, it seems delays might be inevitable. In fact, we've already seen a few; Blue Protocol, for example, delayed...
WoW Factor: A quick first impression of Shadowlands class changes
Every so often, we wind up in a lull of information or exhaustion with World of Warcraft that leads readers to speculating in the...
WoW: Shadowlands datamining reveals gamepad support and easier allied race requirements
If you've been killing yourself grinding your reputations to get all of the World of Warcraft allied races, you may want to hold off...
World of Warcraft walks through the enhanced starting experience for Shadowlands
The upcoming World of Warcraft: Shadowlands doesn't just create new experiences at the top end for players. The revised leveling is bringing with it...
World of Warcraft previews the class changes arriving in Shadowlands
If you had hoped that perhaps now you weren't going to need to learn how to play your class all over again with the...
World of Warcraft previews the first pass of Covenant abilities for Shadowlands
Players were promised yesterday that the developers behind World of Warcraft would be shedding some more light on Shadowlands in the near future. That...
World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands closed alpha is finally beginning this week
Earlier today, we noted fresh changes in World of Warcraft's launcher that indicated Shadowlands' testing was imminent, and this afternoon, Blizzard has confirmed it.
"Later...
World of Warcraft’s beta client is no longer deprecated in the Battle.net launcher
We know that you are probably as tired of hearing about new encrypted builds for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands as we are of having...
The World of Warcraft player who cleared all of the game’s achievements has done it again
Back in 2018, a World of Warcraft player by the (in-game) name of Xirev made a splash when his Blood Elf Mage managed to,...
The Daily Grind: Are you on board for Burning Crusade Classic?
It seems all but one official announcement short of certainty that Blizzard is going to be rolling out a Burning Crusade Classic server for...
Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle
To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
Betawatch: Phantasy Star Online 2’s open beta arrived
The world feels really strange right now, and Phantasy Star Online 2 is in open beta in North America right now. Are those two...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands gets another encrypted alpha build
If you're one of the World of Warcraft players eagerly awaiting more news about Shadowlands, you may be a bit nonplussed that the latest...
Blizzard’s Steve Danuser talks about the story development in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
Very few people are trying to defend the story of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth at this point, with one of the more...
Blizzard roundup: Michael Chu leaves Overwatch, Acti-Blizz gets a new COO, and WoW Classic drops a banhammer
Blizzard's been on a tear this week with staffing shifts and patches and cancellations, so let's dig in. First, probably the saddest part of...
Another World of Warcraft: Shadowlands encrypted alpha build is out now
When is the start of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands testing? Well, on a small scale it seems to have already happened, since the latest encrypted...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands continues its march of encrypted alpha builds
In the abstract sense, it's really not unheard of that we as of yet don't know more about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It's not all that...
Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes welcomed me into MMOs
As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...
