Disambiguation:
– World of Warcraft
– Warcraft series, a series of video games that began in 1994
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EverQuest senior game designer Josh Augustine moves over to World of Warcraft
Former PC Games editor and EverQuest senior game designer Josh Augustine announced yesterday that he's made a move to a position on a different MMORPG:...
Quantic Foundry’s findings on WoW, SWTOR, and gender
Quantic Foundry, the gaming analytics consulting firm we've been following since late 2015 thanks to its Gamer Motivation Model, has a new blog post...
South Korea is airing a World of Warcraft cooking show
Remember that World of Warcraft cookbook? It's heading to the next level. South Korean television will soon feature an entire cooking show based on...
World of Warcraft turns its attention to Patch 7.2
Now that the excitement over the launch of Patch 7.1.5 and Nighthold has died down somewhat, World of Warcraft's team is gearing up for...
Mark Kern’s Em-8ER posts a new THMPR modeling video
Em-8ER, the Mark Kern-led "massive planetary wargame" shooter formerly known as (and still pronounced like) Ember, has a new video out today showing off...
Blizzard defeats Bossland bot-maker in German supreme court ruling
Score one for Blizzard: The gaming giant managed a win in its long struggle against German bot-maker and plague-on-honest-gaming Bossland GmbH.
The German Federal Court...
WoW emu Elysium suffers serious ‘database compromise’
One of the downsides of grey-market game emulators for the end-user is that security isn't always a priority. Case in point? Elysium suffered a...
World of Warcraft scrambles to fix post-7.1.5 class balance
World of Warcraft's most recent content update isn't a week old yet, but it's already dug itself into a pit of controversy. You see,...
Guild Chat: Balancing real life and MMORPG commitments
Welcome along to another advice-filled edition of Guild Chat, the column in which I attempt to huddle together with the Massively Overpowered community in...
WoW Factor: New classes in a post-Legion world
So World of Warcraft patch 7.1.5 is out now... but I'm going to be honest, that doesn't feel like much of anything. It's there,...
Elysium opens up yet another Nostalrius server
The pro-vanilla World of Warcraft community is fond of flinging Blizzard's "you think you do, but you don't" around as a defense for the...
World of Warcraft Q&A covers professions, timewalking, and the Brawler’s Guild
Yesterday, the World of Warcraft Senior Game Designer Paul Kubit sat down to take on a question-and-answer session about this week's Patch 7.1.5 and...
Massively Overthinking: Tab-target vs. action combat in MMORPGs
Massively OP patron Duane is kicking the new year off right: with a brawl over combat types in MMOs.
"Tab-target, action, or hybrid combat, for...
World of Warcraft players will have a quest to upgrade Legendary items
Do you want a shiny level 940 Legendary in World of Warcraft instead of being stuck with the garbage level 910 you already have?...
Jukebox Heroes: Six MMOs that need official soundtrack releases
For an avid fan of video game soundtracks, and of MMO soundtracks in particular, the most frustrating aspect of collecting and listening to these...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 99: Landmark goes into the dark
Justin and Bree discuss Landmark, Trove, Asheron's Call, WoW, FFXIV, WildStar, Hi-Rez, and Ashes of Creation before dipping into the mailbag to speculate on Daybreak's future.
World of Warcraft patch 7.1.5 launches today
If you're hoping for new content in today's World of Warcraft patch, you will be largely disappointed. Not entirely disappointed, perhaps, since the patch...
The Game Archaeologist: Hero’s Journey
Fiction writers know well of Joseph Campbell's identification and outline of the monomyth, or "hero's journey," in many stories. The 12-step process starts with...
World of Warcraft’s Zul’jin joins Heroes of the Storm
One of World of Warcraft's iconic warlords is now moonlighting in Blizzard's MOBA. This week, Heroes of the Storm released its first patch of...
World of Warcraft heralds the coming of Patch 7.1.5
It looks likely that World of Warcraft's Patch 7.1.5 -- a surprisingly packed "in-between" update -- will be coming very soon now. It's always...
