world of warcraft

Official Site: World of Warcraft
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: November 23, 2014
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Why Guild Wars 2’s prepurchase deal has the internet raging

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On the surface, ArenaNet killed it at E3, kicking ass with a much-wanted and huge expansion for Guild Wars 2, one of the biggest MMORPGs in...
It's coincidence that the last three expansions have spoken to the exact same vanishingly small portion of the playerbase.

World of Warcraft details the end of the legendary ring questline

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The launch of World of Warcraft's next major patch brings with it the end of the quest to earn a legendary ring for your...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: MMO terms that have overstayed their welcome

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My original plan for this week - during the few moments that I was capable of coherent speech rather than just babbling about the...

Jukebox Heroes: An exclusive journey through Aion’s Upheaval soundtrack

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Aion is a game that's well-renowned for both its visual and audio beauty. Among my fellow MMO soundtrack enthusiasts, the title's many soundtracks stand out...

World of Warcraft 6.2 coming on June 23 with Hellfire Citadel raid

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World of Warcraft's Patch 6.2: Fury of Hellfire is coming on June 23rd, we found out today. When it lands, the patch will be...
Not gignatic: the remaining workforce.

E3 2015: Hands-on with Motiga’s ‘shooter MOBA’ Gigantic

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As some of you recall, Gigantic is one of those games that looks like a MOBA and smells like a MOBA but -- for a...

Blizzard highlights WoW’s Black Morass for timewalking

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World of Warcraft's 6.2 patch features a series of seven different weekend events, two of which will make timewalking dungeons available to characters at...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 18

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, WildStar, Elder Scrolls Online's console launch, SWTOR's new expansion, WoW's flight fiasco, Cabal II, failed Kickstarters, plus mailbag questions on gratuitous complexity and Turbine's future.

World of Warcraft acknowledges ’emotional response’ to flying controversy

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The full story on Blizzard's decision and subsequent reappraisal of grounding flying mounts in World of Warcraft is still being revealed. In a new...
Take a walk on the already-done-this side.

World of Warcraft demos its first timewalking dungeon, The Arcatraz

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The next patch for World of Warcraft is sending players back in time, just a little bit. With an expansion based on nostalgia, that...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: What the flight changes portend for WoW’s future

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Did anyone else get flashbacks to the Xbox One launch with World of Warcraft's flying announcement? I pictured a lot of arm-folding and sulking...

The Daily Grind: Is there MMO busywork you enjoy?

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Down in the comments beneath the Marvel Heroes column we first published this week, a Massively OP reader expressed annoyance with online action RPGs and...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO annoyances that provoke ragequits

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I'm going to do something I don't do a lot in Massively Overthinking -- or anywhere, really. I'm going to ask you to whine. MOP Kickstarter...

Perfect Ten: The top 10 healthiest live MMOs

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One question that consistently pops up across the MMO gaming circuit is, "What are the most popular/healthy/active MMOs out there?" Every time I see...
Yes, it's really weird to talk about Warlords in the context of a success, for me as much as you.

Everything you need to know about being on a boat in World of Warcraft’s next patch

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The next major patch for World of Warcraft is pitting players against what remains of the Iron Horde in the Tanaan Jungle, but unfortunately...
Something to (shadow) crow about.

World of Warcraft to allow flight in Draenor in a post-6.2 patch

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If you had given up on flight as a lost cause in Warlords of Draenor, there's good news. World of Warcraft's developers posted a...

See World of Warcraft’s oldest surviving screenshots

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Here's a treat for MMO history buffs. Dave Wilson, who works at Blizzard doing recruitment marketing, posted a series of captioned pictures on Twitter...

One Shots: The infinite summons

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One of the stranger Final Fantasy tropes is that the more powerful a summoned creature is, the longer it would take for any given...

The Game Archaeologist: The Matrix Online

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It's not every year that a movie comes along that captures the pop culture zeitgeist so powerfully and so quickly as The Matrix did....

World of Warcraft inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame

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If you had to pick six of the most influential video games in history, what would they be? For a panel of experts at the...

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