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

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The Daily Grind: What do you think about NPC party members in MMORPGs?

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I've been thinking a lot about classic Guild Wars lately -- the anniversary always does this to me. And one of my favorite parts...

World of Warcraft fan mods the restoration of Blood Elf zone Quel’Thalas

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All hail the modders, doing bizarre things for our fun! Today's modding hero is a World of Warcraft fan named Hayven, whose YouTube video is...

Empyrean is building ‘MMOs you can beat’

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Empyrean Interactive is coining a new acronym this season: PCA, which stands for persistent cooperative adventure, a "radically different" take on the MMO genre. Studio...

Nostalrius team surveys community about a World of Warcraft legacy ruleset

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As we've been reporting, the team from the shuttered Nostalrius World of Warcraft emulator has been appointed as "ambassadors" of a sort to represent...
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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite type of grind in an MMORPG?

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Grind is not a thing people generally love in MMORPGs, but what's actually considered to be grind varies wildly from player to player. You...

Get a look at World of Warcraft’s new Stormwind park

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Has the creation of a park in an MMORPG ever caused such excitement? When World of Warcraft: Legion arrives at the end of August, it...

One Shots: Slipping between shadows

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I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...

The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live

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The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...
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WoW Factor: Content gaps, polish, and the Legion release date

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The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...
Are we doing the time warp?

Activision-Blizzard Q1 2016: Activision-Blizzard posts results ahead of WoW Legion, Overwatch

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Activision-Blizzard's first quarter 2016 financial report just hit the internet, and the company is declaring "better-than-expected" financial results. "For the quarter ended March 31, 2016,...

China gets the Warcraft movie two days before everyone else

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Want to be among the first in the world to see the Warcraft feature film? Then you best be buying a ticket to China....
Can we start, start over.

World of Warcraft kicks off Children’s Week

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Are you just sitting around in your Garrison these days in World of Warcraft, waiting for the Burning Legion to stop farting about and...

The Daily Grind: Have you revisited an old MMO character lately?

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The Gnome Warlock you see in the above header is the original Syp, created pre-Burning Crusade in October 2006. She's probably one of my...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry

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Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
Was this the longest?

The Nostalrius team on hopes for a legacy World of Warcraft server

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For those who can't get enough information about what led to the creation and maintenance of the Nostalrius World of Warcraft server, the site...

Rumor: Warcraft movie tix may include WoW for free in some regions

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French World of Warcraft website Mamytwink.com is reporting that the purchase of Warcraft movie tickets through French cinema maven Kinepolis will be accompanied by...
What if WoW looked like everything else.

Check out a fan-made recreation of World of Warcraft’s Duskwood in Unreal Engine 4

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A lot of graphical improvements have happened for World of Warcraft over the years, but the game is still using the same fundamental graphical...

The Daily Grind: Are you ever sad when you levelcap in an MMORPG?

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I recently levelcapped another character in Guild Wars 2, my Asura Guardian, and yet as soon as she dinged, some of the spark of...

The MOP Up: Allods’ Gibberling Festival (May 1, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO business models

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Not too long ago, there was all but one way that you would pay for an MMO, and that was as a monthly subscription....

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