Disambiguation:
– World of Warcraft
– Warcraft series, a series of video games that began in 1994
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Pokemon Go’s second anniversary report card sees high marks for content and innovation
Today is Pokemon Go's second-year anniversary. Last year's report card had to grapple with things like the game's rapid rise and fall as a fad,...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI in review and choosing our next MMO
Here's the weird part about this week's column: I'm going to tell you, in short, that Final Fantasy XI is still a good game...
Blizzard wants you to crush your enemies for a Battle for Azeroth beta key
Can't wait until August 14th to get your hands on World of Warcraft's upcoming Battle for Azeroth expansion? Then you might be in luck:...
The Daily Grind: How early should an MMORPG’s hype cycle begin?
GIbiz put out an interesting piece this week looking 10 years into the past to see where the buzz was in the game industry...
World of Warcraft is banning ads on the Group Finder moving forward
Quick question: What is the Group Finder in World of Warcraft intended for? If you answered that it's for finding groups, possibly with an...
MMO business roundup: Virtual reality, Niantic, WoW emu hacking, and what Google’s up to
We've got some MMO industry topics you shouldn't miss, so welcome back to our MMO business roundup!
• Last week, Pokemon Go company Niantic previewed...
Pokemon-inspired MMORPG Temtem just funded on Kickstarter with over half a million bucks
Temtem has just fully funded on Kickstarter to the tune of just about $573,919, with 11,715 backers (the counts will keep fluctuating for a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best user interface?
In the comments of my last Daily Grind about Star Wars Galaxies, there erupted a lively debate about the game's user interface in the...
World of Warcraft shows off its War Mode benefits
It seems only fair that World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth will give players a bit more reason to go to war. So it...
The Game Archaeologist: Raph Koster on MUDs and Privateer Online
The release of Raph Koster's monster book of game essays, Postmortems, was of high interest to Bree and me for different reasons. For her,...
Ion Hazzikostas on World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s design philosophy
If you felt like World of Warcraft: Legion hit the random chance button too hard (likely as one of the many players who waited...
Vague Patch Notes: On balance and differentiation in MMOs
Do you like fighting games? I don't. Let's talk about fighting games. But bear with me because you'll get where this is going.
While I...
World of Warcraft gets its epic ducks in a row for Battle for Azeroth
With the Midsummer Fire Festival roaring through July 5th and artifact weapons on their way out of the game, World of Warcraft is heating...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
World of Warcraft begins to retire artifact weapons in preparation for Battle for Azeroth
Players who have logged into World of Warcraft since yesterday have discovered that doomsday has finally arrived for their artifact weapons. Yes, these weapons...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 176: Guild Wars 2, The Crew 2, and Elder Scrolls too
Justin and Bree discuss Fractured's Kickstarter, Trion Worlds' purchase of Gazillion, Guild Wars 2's new episode, The Crew 2's launch, drama in Elder Scrolls Online and Black Desert, The Sims, DDO, Trove, what we bought in the Steam sale, and pipedreams for Marvel Heroes.
SuperData’s May 2018 revenue report shows Fortnite slowing down, Pokemon Go picking up for summer
May 2018 was good to Fortnite, again, SuperData's latest global revenue report shows, but its growth rate may be coming to a middle. "Fortnite...
World of Warcraft ‘not looking to compete’ with Discord but might be breaking your favorite addon
World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas sat down with Forbes this week for a two-part interview about some of the big changes with...
World of Warcraft spins down WoW Mobile Armory app for expansion
It's time to clear out another one of the World of Warcraft apps that have been dwelling on your phone.
Following the retirement of the...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth pre-patch event looks to be coming in mid-July
While World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is dated for August 14th, everyone knows that the real starting pistol fires for the expansion pre-patch,...
