the burning crusade

It's probably chiefly due to my professional life that I find myself kind of looking forward to the launch of World of Warcraft:...

One of the, ahem, burning questions regarding World of Warcraft Classic is what Blizzard plans to do with and for those players past...

Blizzard has really been pushing the whole anniversary thing for World of Warcraft hard and early this year. On the one hand, I...

It was April 24th, 2007. World of Warcraft players were deep into The Burning Crusade, SOE had just launched Vanguard, and the...

I once heard it said that a popular studio - I think it was Blizzard - made it a point of asking prospective developers...

It's a rare MMO player who's never played World of Warcraft, which makes this particular summer an interesting one for the whole genre....

It's far too early to say that World of Warcraft: Classic will get more updates beyond the planned phases of vanilla content. It could...

When Guild Wars 2 announced that the central mechanic of its Path of Fire expansion was going to be mounts, a lot of...

There's a game I like to play - wait, no, that's a lie. There's a game I do play called "Oh, I Made Myself Sad."...

So now we have a date at the end of August for World of Warcraft: Classic. That's actually a lot later than I had expected,...

Blizzard's keeping the pressure up this week with another new World of Warcraft release, though this one's about the live game, not

Here's the genesis of this particular article: I saw speculation over on Blizzard Watch that we were about a year too early for...

Over the past three months, I've been exclusively playing on the Anor progression server in Lord of the Rings Online. During that time,...

Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that...

Yeah, so Kalimdor has changed a bit in World of Warcraft. I'm going to be honest and say that I've never actually liked Kalimdor very...

Here's a fun question to consider. What were Emblems of Valor and Emblems of Heroism designed to do in World of Warcraft? Yes, they...

I spent a bunch of time post-BlizzCon thinking about why World of Warcraft personally bothered me. Not why its design pitfalls bothered me;...

First and foremost, I'd like to note that I am writing these columns consecutively and immediately, so all I can do is hope that...

Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion...

If it seems like World of Warcraft Classic would be an easy project, you may not have spent as much time thinking about...