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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World of Warcraft and RuneScape make Twitch’s top games list for September
Don't put much stock in what people are playing on Raptr? What about what people are watching on Twitch?
The streaming giant recently released its September...
Global Chat: Why is Blizzard so sluggish?
World of Warcraft: Legion and Blizzard's recent decisions were at the forefront of a couple of recent MMO blog posts as of late, their authors...
Sword and Bored: Costume designer
Mo gets to mess around with his MMO's cosmetic outfit system. Amilya "helps" him, of course.
The Game Archaeologist: The assassination of Lord British
At the end of August 2015, the fledgling Shroud of the Avatar community gathered together for a massive PvP fight. This wasn't to be...
World of Warcraft prepares for its annual Halloween event
It's the most wonderful time of the year, everyone. No, not December; it's October and a month full of Halloween-related festivities. World of Warcraft...
Perfect Ten: Why big MMO expansions are a good thing
I'm not really on board with the trend of saying that big expansions are back. They never left. Sure, we have one coming out...
World of Warcraft adds stuff to its cash shop
Blizzard has added a bunch of character services to World of Warcraft's cash shop. Apparently being able to buy them all "from the comfort...
WoW Factor: A wishlist for World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion
We're going to find out a lot about World of Warcraft:Â Legion in November. Not just because I expect that'll be around the time we...
Jukebox Heroes: Your top 20 favorite MMO soundtracks
I've been a sneaky columnist, my friends. Oh yes I have. In my last Jukebox Heroes I posted my top six favorite MMO soundtracks,...
The Daily Grind: How often are your MMO goals thwarted?
I logged into Ultima Online over the weekend absolutely determined to achieve a very specific thing: imbue some gear for my Tamer. But first I wanted to...
Massively Overthinking: MMO server merge horror stories
Whether you call them server transitions, evolutions, consolidations, megaservers, or connected realms, server merges are a thing that affects most MMORPGs at some point...
Perfect Ten: Ten well-known voice actors behind SWTOR’s characters
When it launched, Star Wars: The Old Republic was one of the biggest video game voice-over projects that BioWare or any studio had ever...
Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Aging, offline leveling, and the business model
Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...
The Daily Grind: What details do you want to know about World of Warcraft: Legion?
World of Warcraft's newest expansion will undoubtedly be a major topic of conversation at November's BlizzCon. While Blizzard has unveiled the larger brush strokes...
Global Chat: The death of hope for Pathfinder Online
Pathfinder Online might not be completely dead, but hope for it has certainly gone down the drain following the announcement of the studio's mass...
The MOP Up: All news must go!
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...
The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online
"The future in your hands."
This was Funcom's promise to gamers in the early days of the 2000s. Even as the MMORPG genre slowly took...
Heroes of the Storm championships are live this weekend, with more championships coming at BlizzCon
Which team in the North American region is best at playing Heroes of the Storm? You can find out this weekend with the American...
One Shots: Purple haze
Blocky and stylized though it may be, World of Warcraft's visuals represent impressive work by artists who pull every trick out of their bags to...
WoW Factor: Between now and Legion
I'm going to be very surprised if we see World of Warcraft:Â Legion before June 2016. The odds are good that a beta announcement is...