shadowlands
World of Warcraft’s valor patch comes next week while WoW Classic flirts with #somechanges
A systems and balancing patch is hitting World of Warcraft's live servers next week as Blizzard fine-tunes Shadowlands before it brings Patch 9.1 out...
Global Chat: Grieving over Anthem’s demise
Belghast over at Tales of the Aggronaut is going through several stages of grief over the news that Anthem has ceased active development. It's...
SuperData says WoW’s player count is already ‘back to normal levels’ post-Shadowlands
How fast did the gaming world get over Cyberpunk 2077? One month, according to SuperData's latest revenue rankings. While CDPR's sprawling RPG dominated the...
Global Chat: Why do devs amputate content from MMOs?
MMO blogger Yeebo Fernbottom tackled an issue that's a standing pet peeve for me: When game developers take away systems, content, and fun toys...
LOTRO Legendarium: How can LOTRO become more alt-friendly?
Lord of the Rings Online has so much to offer players, from an expansive world to thousands of quests to, um, chicken soccer. But...
World of Warcraft’s patch 9.0.5 adds Stygia crafting but will not allow upgrading old M+ items
So the next patch for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is bringing back Valor points... after a fashion. But there are actually some new things available...
World of Warcraft spills details about its March patch, including the return of Valor points (kinda)
You won't have to wait until BlizzConline to find out what's next in store for World of Warcraft. While Patch 9.1 is still hiding...
WoW Factor: What I want to hear from World of Warcraft during BlizzConline
So hey, BlizzConline is coming up very soon, and that means more announcements about World of Warcraft! Within a fairly narrow lineup of possible bits...
Blizzard celebrates Lunar New Year in World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone
Blizzard is no slouch when it comes to Lunar New Year celebrations: Its largest online titles have all gotten updates for the season.
In World...
Global Chat: Amazing quality-of-life MMO mechanics
Little things can mean a whole lot, especially if they impact your gameplay for the better. MMO blogger Contains Moderate Peril wrote a list...
One Shots: Where do you find penguin wear?
When you head out to the final frontier in Star Citizen, make sure that you take your favorite, um, penguin? Sure, that sounds like...
World of Warcraft makes Torghast unlocks account-wide
Here's some really good news for players who are groaning in anticipation at running those lengthy Torghast levels in World of Warcraft! Blizzard hotfixed...
World of Warcraft hits numerous dungeons and the Castle Nathria raid with the nerf stick
Whether or not you enjoy the expectations regarding how often dungeons and raids should be run for loot in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, you will...
SuperData December 2020: World of Warcraft is dethroned again, and people still love Among Us
While SuperData has already put a bow on the entirety of games earnings in 2020, there's still the December 2020 breakdown to cover, which...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of votekicking in MMOs?
Not long after Shadowlands released, there was a heavily upvoted thread on the World of Warcraft subreddit in which a player related a story...
WoW Factor: Does Blizzard have a messaging problem or a message problem?
A recent post over at Kaylriene's blog got me originally thinking about this one. The original posting here is actually about a different issue...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 305: Restoring faith
Justin and Bree discuss Elite Dangerous' Odyssey delay, LOTRO's latest mishaps, Guild Wars 2 Power, Pirate101 and the KingsIsle sale, and FFXIV's Ishgard restoration, with a Daily Grind blitz and mailbag topics on WoW Shadowlands, seeing how the sausage is made, and lifeskill-centric MMOs.
World of Warcraft hints at delving deeper into Shadowlands in 2021
I can't be the only person wondering about what World of Warcraft has up its sleeve for 2021. Now that Shadowlands is going on...
One Shots: The magical land of candy
We would all like to think that, given the opportunity, we would be brave adventurers in fantasy lands, venturing forth to slay dragons and...
WoW Factor: The Shadowlands gameplay loop problem
A friend and I were discussing World of Warcraft the other night, which is something we do fairly often. This is especially relevant for me...
