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

I'm not back on any BS, I never left it.

Perfect Ten: Why MMORPG studios don’t just reboot their games

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Last Friday's WildStar news made me sad. I'm sad because there are two games at war within that title. One of them is a...

See the new Warcraft movie trailer and poster

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Warcraft's June 10th movie premiere is coming a lot faster than you'd think, and the promotion machine for the fantasy film is well underway....

World of Warcraft: Legion alpha patch revises class and artifact traits

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June 30th release or no, World of Warcraft: Legion continues on with its alpha test program. Today Blizzard patched in several adjustments to various...
Barfapalooza.

Rumor: Retailers pegging World of Warcraft: Legion’s release as June 30th

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The cycle has begun. Every time a World of Warcraft expansion doesn't have a fixed release date, retailers begin assigning a release date to...

Global Chat: ARK invents new types of griefing

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Just when you thought you've seen every type of online griefing known to man, here comes another. In An Age grouses about how ARK:...

Hyperspace Beacon: Should you resub for SWTOR: Disavowed?

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Hello, friends. I hope you don’t mind my calling you that. I do respect my readers. Thankfully, most of you are rational and thoughtful....
Holy elves, Elfman!

Hearthstone offers a new hero for World of Warcraft players

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Odds are pretty good that if you already play World of Warcraft, you have probably taken Hearthstone for a spin. The game is now...
Holy arts.

World of Warcraft outlines the state of PvP in the Legion alpha

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The big change coming to World of Warcraft's PvP in Legion is a brand-new honor system, and like anything else that's been changed wholesale...
Yes, this assuages my nervousness, you bet.

Working As Intended: The fate of the MMORPG genre

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I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that this past weekend was a strange one in the MMORPG community, when gamers across the wide expanse...

Guild Chat: How to tactfully leave a guild

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Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, my little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I tackle readers' guild-related problems with the help...

The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds

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In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...

World of Warcraft CM Zarhym leaves Blizzard

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Long-time World of Warcraft Community Manager Jonathan Brown has left Blizzard, according to a brief notice on his Twitter account. There was no explanation...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha

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The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...
When you're out in the club and you see a fly girl, do the creep!

New and tweaked class specs arrive in WoW’s latest Legion build

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The testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion is almost finished adding new specs for players to try out as the latest Legion test...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you revisited lately?

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While it might be more exciting to check out a brand-new MMO, I find that it's often easier and requires far less energy to...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 54: Something fishy is afoot

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Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, No Man's Sky, World of Fishing, and AdventureQuest 3D, with a mailbag question on broken dev promises.
EverQuest

The Daily Grind: Where are all the MMORPG themeparks?

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A reader named Rogbarz emailed us toward the end of last year, lamenting the fact that we have a lot of upcoming indie games...
It's not particularly cruel.

Massively Overthinking: The curse of player-generated MMO content

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The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...
What if this is as good as it'll ever get?

World of Warcraft updates its expansion alpha and opens up PvP testing

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One of the big elements being introduced to World of Warcraft when Legion goes live is an entirely revamped PvP system, rebuilt from the...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes

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Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...

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