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World of Warcraft wraps up Shadowlands with today’s patch 9.2.5 and faction crossplay
As World of Warcraft increasingly turns its attention to Dragonflight, Shadowlands' days are coming to a close. With the arrival of today's mid-sized Patch...
WoW Factor: Excitement and trepidation about World of Warcraft bringing back talent trees
So you probably don't need me to tell you at this point that I'm looking forward to having talent trees back in World of...
World of Warcraft ‘experiments’ with raid rewards in preparation for Dragonflight
It's always a super-comforting happenstance when a game studio decides that it wants to wildly monkey with the current MMO to prepare for an...
World of Warcraft confirms that all races will be able to be Mages, Priests, and Rogues starting in Dragonflight
The developers want to work toward a place with World of Warcraft wherein race is not a limiting factor in the class you choose to...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2022: Revenues plummet, Blizzard loses another 2M players
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials.
As of this morning, we have Q1's results, comprising January, February, and March 2022, a...
Massively Overthinking: The WoW Dragonflight and Wrath Classic roundtable
So this week's Massively Overthinking is going to cautiously stick a paw into the beehive of World of Warcraft, thanks to the reveal of...
World of Warcraft gives you gear flexibility with this week’s Creation Catalyst
As World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion starts to spin down, Blizzard has a potential game-changer for players still trying to push their gear up...
WoW Factor: So let’s talk about World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight leak
Sometimes you just get handed a column, you know? No, you probably don't; you probably don't work in this insane profession. The point is that...
Rumor: World of Warcraft’s next expansion is called Dragonflight according to website code leaks
It should be known by now that dataminers will go to any lengths and plumb any digital depths they can to discover what's coming...
WoW Factor: Dissecting the Shadowlands story now that we’ve seen the end of it
Editor's note - Well, folks, it happened again: Eliot was unavailable to write his column again after falling into a reality-traversing portal. We'd ask...
One Shots: It’s thriller night!
There are no shortages of bizarre and arresting sights in Lost Ark, it seems. Zulika Mi-Nam recorded this strange encounter with a whole host...
World of Warcraft outlines plans for season 4 of Shadowlands item grinding
On April 19th, Blizzard is going to reveal the plans for the next expansion for World of Warcraft. But it doesn't seem that the...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s next expansion needs to restore faith in the game
It's the next World of Warcraft expansion! Except it isn't. But it's the announcement of the date on which that will be announced! In a...
WoW Factor: Beyond the Spires, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
Let's get something weird going here for the last of these speculative exercises. I could keep doing this for a while now, if we're being...
WoW Factor: Shards of Azeroth, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
Our story this time starts in a fight we don't yet know about, so I freely admit that there is the possibility that this...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands season 3 kicks off in March with some big changes
With Patch 9.2: Eternity's End out the door, World of Warcraft gradually is turning on the rest of the features from the update. Namely,...
World of Warcraft: Eternity’s End is live today
Well, let's see how Shadowlands is going to wrap up, huh? World of Warcraft is receiving its second and final major patch for the...
World of Warcraft designers talk storytelling in Shadowlands without saying much
Are you wondering why it is that a random baker from Stormwind can casually walk through a portal to the afterlife and sell bread...
WoW Factor: Flights Rising, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
The Dragon Isles are quite the storied location in World of Warcraft in that it's easy to pull them out and dust them off whenever...
WoW Factor: Winds of Change, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
We still have no idea what the next expansion for World of Warcraft will look like, which is kind of absurd. We didn't even have...