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Blizzard takes players on a tour behind the scenes of World of Warcraft’s Season of Discovery
The basic goal when World of Warcraft's development team announced the Season of Discovery for WoW Classic has long been discussed, but a new video...
Casually Classic: How Burning Crusade brought us some of WoW’s best starting zones
There's certainly been a rise of chatter among the WoW Classic community these days regarding The Burning Crusade. This is partially because of a...
Star Wars Galaxies’ SWGEmu declares 1.0, plans a scale-down and sunset, and announces SWGRealms
If you're a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server fan, especially of the pre-NGE variety, there's a lot of info coming your way from the...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s April update brings jokes and jewels
Pokemon Go's buyout by Scopely hasn't resulted in a full transition yet, but we're already seeing some of Scopely's influence, and it's not all...
WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers move into phase three later this month
The 20th anniversary servers for WoW Classic continue to barrel forward through the now-quite-familiar phases of vanilla content, with two of these stages already...
Casually Classic: Why vanilla Classic’s quest system was an industry revolution
In every retrospective covering World of Warcraft's explosive success out of the gate, there's a lot of effort spent trying to put a finger...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers should’ve started at Burning Crusade
Two months. It's now been two months since WoW Classic did a huge re-launch of its progression servers under the widely mocked "Classic Classic"...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite classic World of Warcraft dungeon?
Last week, WoW Classic Classic pushed along with its planned release timetable, adding in two old world bosses, refurbing the honor system, and opening...
Scars of Honor speed-runs you through four years of its MMO development history
Coming in hot in the new year with some self-promotion after a quieter period of development is Scars of Honor, a classic-feeling MMORPG in the...
Casually Classic: What does WoW Classic’s future look like?
Welcome to 2025, WoW Classic fans! What began as a somewhat reluctant legacy version of this MMO a little over five years ago has...
WoW Classic players manage to recreate the infamous Corrupted Blood event
One of the most notable community-sparked events of vanilla World of Warcraft in 2005 came back again in 2024.
This would be the Corrupted Blood...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic Classic is more than just another hit of nostalgia
Out of all of the things that I didn't expect to be on my 2024 MMO bingo sheet was "Getting absolutely sucked into a...
WoW Classic Classic launches tonight with fresh progression servers and some changes
It's (re)launch day for WoW Classic, as Blizzard opens the doors this evening to a batch of fresh start megaservers around the globe starting...
Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs
So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other...
WoW Factor: Thoughts on World of Warcraft getting housing and Classic Classic fresh start servers
With no BlizzCon this year and a pretty full and constantly updating roadmap for World of Warcraft unfolding (including this month's 20th anniversary activities),...
Massively Overthinking: How long should it take to level to endgame in MMORPGs?
Right after New World's Aeternum launched, we did a piece looking into how the game was faring - and one complaint I saw over...
Casually Classic: Looking back at my 20+ year journey in World of Warcraft
When was the first time you ever heard of World of Warcraft? As a fan of the three Warcraft RTS titles, I became aware of...
Stars Reach is testing its very Star Wars Galaxies-esque ranger skill tree and combat in this weekend’s playtest
Whether or not - and it's probably not - you're in Stars Reach's upcoming playtest, this week's blog post will be of interest to...
Global Chat: Does the MMO genre need a good rebranding?
As we all seem to love the topic of MMO definitions, it's with little surprise to see blogs discuss it as well. Contains Moderate...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat
A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote,
"Some of my most...
