Disambiguation:
– World of Warcraft
– Warcraft series, a series of video games that began in 1994
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WoW Factor: The pros and cons of stripping timer requirements from World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ runs
So the other day, an interesting topic came up in our feeds: Apparently, at least if you go by the survey, World of Warcraft's...
World of Warcraft previews the features of its Undermined update as Winter Veil brings the Christmas spirit
The time is almost here when World of Warcraft players will get to experience Goblin Nar Shadaa, aka the city of Undermine, in patch...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.
World of Warcraft’s Siren Isle update goes live this evening with a new zone and Plunderstorm
Is World of Warcraft's Siren Isle named that because there's a bird native to the island that has a call which sounds like "WEEE-OOOO"...
World of Warcraft is surveying players on removing the Mythic+ timer and replacing it with a death counter
In any sort of combat-focused gameplay, the player character is generally seeking to not die. (Also during non-combat-focused gameplay, to be fair, but the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...
World of Warcraft steels itself for next week’s Siren Isle while WoW Classic Classic gets into raidin’
World of Warcraft has one final content offering for 2024 before it gears up for the even greater things coming with next year's Undermine....
World of Warcraft shows off the new zone, story, and activities of patch 11.0.7
The next patch for World of Warcraft arrives on December 17th, and it's bringing a storm. Specifically, it's bringing regular storms to the new...
Warcraft Rumble kicks off its PC beta along with its Winter Veil festivities
If you've found yourself wishing to have Warcraft Rumble playable on your PC before now (or perhaps you've wished for something Warcraft-adjacent that's a...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024
I have not had a good 2024. I have, in fact, had the absolute opposite of that. I feel like I exist now through...
World of Warcraft has added a whopping 38,000 quests in 20 years
Here's a fun fact: Originally, Blizzard intended to create only around 100 Horde, 100 Alliance, and 100 neutral quests for World of Warcraft, as...
Casually Classic: Ranking WoW Classic’s six starting zones
Part of the sheer fun of fresh start servers and going through WoW Classic again is becoming reacquainted with that old and welcome friend,...
Design Mockument: In defense of visual ability customization in MMORPGs
I will never know who it was working behind the scenes at City of Heroes who first had the idea to let players customize...
Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
Vague Patch Notes: Nostalgia isn’t the problem with pining for your MMO past
So it hasn't been long since World of Warcraft launched a new set of WoW Classic servers, except this time it's WoW Classic Classic,...
World of Warcraft shares the behind-the-scenes of its Ibelin-inspired charity bundle, the Reven Pack
World of Warcraft has made a tradition for years of selling charity pets which offer all of the profits to charity for a limited...
