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

Global Chat: The NecroKitties of Elsweyr

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Raise your hand if you're playing Elder Scrolls Online's newest expansion this week! Elsweyr has drawn many back in to Tamriel with the most...

One Shots: Prime real estate

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The rich elite enjoy their luxurious mansions located on scenic shores, remote islands, or exclusive metropolis neighborhoods. But the rich elite with connections to...
I'm not him! I don't even look like him!

Into the Super-verse: Why didn’t Champions Online do better?

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A while back I was flipping through the backlog of my personal gaming blog, looking at the history of my gaming trends, particularly in...

Massively Overthinking: Does the MMO genre have too many games for its own good?

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Last month I saw a video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes with an eyebrow-raiser of a thesis: He essentially argues that we have too...

Wandering Wraeclast: Bring on more Path of Exile super league of leagues

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I am not sure how everyone else felt about the special Synthesis super league in Path of Exile these past few weeks, but I...

Blizzard cans another secret game after two years of development, this one a StarCraft shooter

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Add another game to Blizzard's development graveyard. According to Gamespot, the World of Warcraft studio decided to cancel an unannounced game project that has been...
Wake-up bomb.

Desert Oasis: Comparing Black Desert and Blade & Soul’s design philosophies

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One of my favorite MMO stories is how I got into Black Desert in the first place. It was right after I tried out...
Blood flight.

World of Warcraft clarifies Battle for Azeroth season timeline, still no date for Rise of Azshara

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I don't know why since I'm not even going to play it, but not knowing when Rise of Azshara is launching for World of...

WoW Classic’s test server raises level cap and reopens Arathi Basin

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After the fourth or fifth million battle over the same tiny swath of farmland, the question of "is this truly worth the bloodshed?" comes...
Well, I feel daunted.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 223: Starbase Adrift

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Justin and Bree discuss Worlds Adrift's sunset, ESO Elsweyr's launch, Starbase, FFXIV Shadowbringers, and City of Heroes, with mail on old episodes and WoW Classic blowback.

Massively Uplifting: Supporting St. Jude Children’s Hospital and PRIDE month

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April showers bring May flowers, but big-hearted gamers bring forth good deeds any month of the year! And May was no different. Generosity with...

The Daily Grind: Do you let an MMO’s worst community elements determine your server selection?

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Last week, on the heels of WoW Classic's latest stress test, I saw several discussions online about popular streamers and the game: Apparently, these...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Freestyle 2, World of Kings, Dragon Raja 2, Ragnarok Masters

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!). First up:...

One Shots: Larger than life

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If there is one thing that MMORPGs are able to do regularly and impressively, it is to give us a sense of massive scale....

The Game Archaeologist: 1998’s Mankind

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In the annals of the MMO genre, the massively multiplayer RTS has had perhaps the worst go of any variations on these online games....

The Daily Grind: Are you drawn to MMO shapeshifting classes?

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When you think about it, one of the least-represented class archetypes in MMORPGs is shapeshifters. They only pop up here and there, such as...
We're actual size, but it seems much bigger to see.

WoW Factor: Why do people remember classic WoW being so much harder than it actually was?

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As much as there's a moment of schadenfreude in the people compiling lists specifying that no, World of Warcraft: Classic being classic is not...
Depth perception is for fools, I guess.

World of Warcraft shows off its Benthic gear while the Classic server calls a wrap on another stress test

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Want to earn your new equipment in World of Warcraft by farming for items rather than praying for drops? The new Benthic gear available in...

Massively Overthinking: Tackling the ‘big four MMOs’ meme

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Over the last couple of months, there's been a meme floating around the MMORPG subreddit. Someone will ask that the community recommend a game,...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Why Guild Wars 2 has my favorite flying mounts

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When Guild Wars 2 announced that the central mechanic of its Path of Fire expansion was going to be mounts, a lot of people...

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