Official Site:Â World of Warcraft
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â November 23, 2014
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever learned about major world news while playing an MMORPG?
Last week when news of Brexit took over the western world, a Star Citizen Redditor made a comment about the weirdness of learning that...
The Game Archaeologist talks to the Asheron’s Call super-fan
A little while back, I received a rather passionate email from Massively OP reader Diego regarding Asheron's Call. He had quite a lot to...
World of Warcraft devs want to bring more flavor to professions in Legion
A new expansion is as good an excuse as any to stir the pot and make big changes to an MMO, since players are...
Massively Overthinking: Is every MMORPG with a cash shop pay-to-win?
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from one of our dear Patreon Patrons, Duane.
"There seems to be an ever broadening attitude towards what...
World of Warcraft kicks off the Midsummer Fire Festival
Do you remember the heady days of this time last year, when World of Warcraft had a big meaty content patch dubbed "Patch 6.2"...
The MOP Up: League of Legends fights in-house toxicity (June 19, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
MMO Mechanics: Zonation and scaling mechanics in MMORPGs
The recent E3 hubub about The Elder Scrolls Online new level syncing mechanics being extended has got me thinking all about the mechanics behind zones in MMOs,...
One Shots: Cave art
True fact: One of the earliest attempts to screenshot the action in an MMORPG took place as prehistoric cave paintings in France. Another true...
The Game Archaeologist: The Shadow of Yserbius
Really, I blame my parents for not being filthy rich.
If they had been, we could've afforded the $130/month unlimited subscription fee to the ImagiNation...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s expansion cycle will be longer with more patches
Remember all of those times that Blizzard said that it was going to speed up the rate at which it produced World of Warcraft expansions?...
Blizzard introduces an incredibly simple one-button authenticator
When it comes to safety, people often weigh the security of taking preventive measures against the annoyance of having to use them. The more...
Guild Wars 2 debates deleting the Desert borderlands map, discusses raid boss fight
Guild Wars 2's fourth and final developer video on the Stronghold of the Faithful features ArenaNet Game Designer Jason Reynolds discussing the design of...
Global Chat: Which mobs do you love killing in MMOs?
Everyone has mobs that they particularly enjoy offing in MMORPGs -- sometimes so much so that we go out of our way to get...
Tamriel Infinium: The pros and cons of Elder Scrolls Online’s ‘One Tamriel’ level-syncing
Despite being a two-year-old game, The Elder Scrolls Online has made a good showing at E3, which really shouldn't have surprised me -- but it...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s pre-expansion patch hits the test server
While World of Warcraft players will have to wait until the very end of August to dive into the new expansion, a major event...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 69: WildSteam
Justin and Bree discuss ESO, WoW, WildStar, Nostalrius, TSW, Star Citizen, Landmark, and FFXIV, with a mailbag question on MMO dungeons.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s third raid wing
Forsaken Thicket is set to get much larger and... lanier... today: I was given the opportunity to test out the third wing of Guild Wars 2's...
How World of Warcraft raiders are helping the community get epic moose mounts
Here's your feel-good gaming story for the day: When Blizzard gated a prestige mount behind World of Warcraft's toughest raid, the community responded with...
Editorial: The Warcraft film is absolutely awful
A film does not have to be good to be entertaining. I hold that as a pretty firm truth. Snakes on a Plane, for...
Warcraft film hits a roundly disappointing $24.4 million opening in the US
It might seem a bit baffling that the Warcraft film was released in China well before it was released in the United States (which...