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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One Shots: Day of the Cats
As the reluctant owner of a slightly deranged cat, I have nightmares of when felines grow into towering, snide monstrosities and roam the planet...
WoW Factor: Examining Shadowlands’ Warlock, Paladin, and Demon Hunter changes
It's the penultimate column in this particular series! And that's good because if people who used to make World of Warcraft are going to...
Massively Overthinking: Canaries in the MMO coal mine
A few weeks back on the MOP Podcast, reader Danny posed us such a provocative question that we said right then we were going...
Former World of Warcraft developer Ghostcrawler weighs in on Mike Morhaime’s ‘social glue’ discussion
So you remember Mike Morhaime's kind of nonsensical comments that treated "social" as the equivalent to "forced grouping" from a couple days ago, yes?...
World of Warcraft offers better eye glows and new ray-traced shadows in Shadowlands
If there are two things that are going to define World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, it will be shadows and glowing eyes. Lots of people...
Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime laments World of Warcraft’s social unraveling
Do you miss Blizzard's Mike Morhaime, yet? You just might after watching a new interview in which the previous president of the company took...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 269: Pre-Searing parties
Chris, Justin, and Bree discuss Guild Wars 1, Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Funcom's Dune, World of Warcraft, and Star Citizen, with adventures in Fallout 76, FFXIV, Torchlight III, Star Stable, AQ3D, Villagers & Heroes, plus mailbag topics on the state of thes site, the cost of MMOs, Astellia Online, and MMO crafting.
Yes, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is still on track to release this year
If you've been eagerly looking forward to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, this year has probably not been very calming. Also, if you live on...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands appears to have moved class trainers into specific buildings in the capitols
So who here visits the class trainers in retail World of Warcraft? Put your hand down, we know you're just lying to be cute....
Global Chat: The problem with being bad in MMOs
Have you ever felt weirdly reluctant to go the full "dark side" in a video game that offers morality meters? MMO blogger Yeebo Fernbottom...
One Shots: There are many thrones, but this one is mine
In most of our real homes, the only throne we have does unspeakable double duty and isn't something we'd show off to visitors. But...
The Game Archaeologist: The history of play-by-email games
For most all of human history, people who wanted to play a game together usually had to be in physical proximity with each other....
The Daily Grind: What elements feel out of place in your MMO?
I'm generally a flexible person when it comes to encountering a variety of fictional worlds, but I do expect the creators to be internally...
World of Warcraft appears to be quietly ignoring Battle for Azeroth’s genocidal intro in Shadowlands
Calia Menethil: "All right, fellow Forsaken... I know a lot has happened over the past however long it's supposed to have been since this...
WoW Factor: Examining Shadowlands’ Hunter, Priest, and Mage ability changes
Here we are again, and we've got a new mess of classes that got changed! Although in many ways these are the classes that...
WoW Factor: Everything can be an allied race, but nothing *must* be one
As the alpha builds continue to mount along for World of Warcraft's next expansion, a new debate has begun that is kind of difficult...
World of Warcraft Shadowlands’ latest alphas has dark-skinned human options, new customization, zone selection
Another alpha build for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has gone live, and that means both more features to test and more gameplay elements to...
World of Warcraft will remove Pathfinder requirements for Draenor and Broken Isles flight in Shadowlands
So if you've just managed to gain your Draenor Pathfinder achievement last week, this news might come at an inopportune time, but it's officially...
SuperData March 2020: Digital games spending sets achieves new highs thanks to COVID-19
Back in in March, when SuperData was discussing February's monthly gaming revenue numbers, the analysis firm noted that COVID-19 hadn't yet had much impact...
Perfect Ten: The categories of all MMO achievements
I remember when achievements were first getting a pop in the MMO space, or at least when I first noticed it concurrent with World...