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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MMO Week in Review: Daybreak’s defiance (July 12, 2015)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review!
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The Daily Grind: What do you do when you ‘finish’ your main MMO goals?
There's a sense of satisfaction when you wrap up a big set of goals. You're downed the last boss of the last raid tier...
The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Online
The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...
World of Warcraft timewalks to the Halls of Lightning and reveals SDCC goodies
If nothing else, the timewalking dungeons in World of Warcraft have proven a great opportunity to look back at dungeons that you may have...
WoW Factor: Draenor’s imminent content drought
We know that Hellfire Citadel is going to be the last raid in World of Warcraft's current expansion. We know that the expansion wasn't...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO innovation we long for (or do we?)
This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes from Kickstarter donor BigMikeyOcho, who wants to talk innovation:
"Sometimes when I play MMOs, I get the feeling that I'm...
Perfect Ten: Ten lessons I learned as an MMO healer
Back in my World of Warcraft and RIFT days, I spent an awful lot of time in dungeon runs as a healer. I even...
Take a look at the Warcraft movie scenery VR-style
Do you want to properly simulate the feeling of flying through World of Warcraft on the back of a gryphon? There's an app for...
Blizzard, Snail Games are part of a Russian nesting doll-type lawsuit
Blizzard. Lawsuit. The World of Warcraft studio seems to be constantly dealing with some legal action or another. But now it may have gotten...
World of Warcraft walks through time to Gundrak
The current expansion for World of Warcraft takes place on a world where there are no trolls, which means that it's unlikely we'll get...
The Daily Grind: What keeps you from crafting in MMOs?
To this day, I've really only been a "crafter" in a small handful of MMOs: Fallen Earth, World of Warcraft, and Lord of the...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 21
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Final Fantasy XIV, RIFT 3.3, WoW's patch cycle, Cabal 2's launch, Skyforge's soft launch, and TERA's update, with mailbag questions on hero picks, names, and character gender options.
World of Warcraft asks why you use the Black Market Auction House
It turns out that you can bring the Black Market Auction House to your very own Garrison in World of Warcraft if you so...
Former WildStar dev Stephan Frost is now WoW’s design producer
WildStar lost a lot of dev talent over the past year, but at least one ex-Carbine staffer has landed on his feet. Former WildStar...
That guy who redesigned Guild Wars 2’s UI is now tackling WoW’s website
Remember back in January when an ArenaNet forum user named Amax redesigned the UI for Guild Wars 2? As it turns out, Amax is Gradinar Razvan, who...
The Warcraft movie might become a trilogy
Movie stills aside, we're still waiting to see our first real look at 2016's Warcraft film. The good news is that this will happen...
MMO Week in Review: Playing devils, punching dinos (July 5, 2015)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review!
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The Game Archaeologist: The 4th Coming
Over the years that I've been writing The Game Archaeologist, I've received more than a few requests to cover a game that was completely...
Massively Overthinking: On the doom of server-wide MMO communities
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes from KS donor Morreion, who asks,
Do you think that MMO server-wide communities will ever make a comeback?
I suppose...
WoW’s last major Draenor raid is Hellfire Citadel
Warlords of Draenor's last major raid will be Hellfire Citadel, according to an interview with World of Warcraft lead game designer Cory Stockton. Patch...
