In a press roundtable following the Warcraft 30th anniversary direct, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas stated that player housing is the "most ambitious feature in a WoW expansion ever".
]]>There's a new trailer for the video game anthology series Secret Level, and yet, it does feel a bit weird to see Concord amongst it all.
]]>World of Warcraft players are protesting an upcoming balance patch through the in-game group finder tool. Sole players, listing themselves for mythic plus dungeons they have no real desire to complete, in distress due to the knowledge that their classes will see nerfs, and their damage parses will be reduced at Blizzard's hands.
]]>Blizzard is celebrating World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, and to do so it's… collaborating with itself by putting some WoW skins in Overwatch 2.
]]>World of Warcraft is nearing it's twentieth anniversary, which means players can expect a massive mid-patch update bringing many of the game's most legendary armour sets, dungeons, and bosses back for a limited time. On top of this, a whole festival celebrating the game is coming to Tenaris, which'll see players take part in mount competitions, outfit competitions, and pick up valuable rewards.
]]>Over 500 World of Warcraft developers at Blizzard have come together to form a union, narrowly missing out on pipping the Bethesda staff who did the same late last week to the post, but it's ok, there was never anything other than a a bit of "friendly" competition between the two.
]]>Playing MMOs solo can often be a difficult thing, but Blizzard is considering making it easier to play some of World of Warcraft's legacy raids alone.
]]>General manager over the Warcraft franchise at Blizzard John Hight has announced he's leaving the company after almost 13 years.
]]>Picture this. You're mythic raiding in World of Warcraft, and it's all on the line. Your DPS is good and your ability rotation is damn near perfect. This is the run. Your hard work is about to be rewarded with the post-boss logs showing you're a top tier player - one of the best, perhaps? Just then, your tank trips over the stack of pizza boxes near his desk and plummets to the ground, his $500 VR helmet slamming into the floorboards and concaving his face as his brain shoots out the back of his head. Unable to press Shield Wall, he dies and the raid wipes. You are left distraught as the healers are lectured on their poor performance.
]]>One interesting feature coming to World of Warcraft's next expansion - The War Within - is an arachnophobia filter. Whereas other games have taken on this problem and swapped out models for vague geometric shapes or other less creepy alternatives, the World of Warcraft team have gone through and swapped out all the game's spider models with... crabs.
]]>I've been obsessed with World of Warcraft for years now - playing it on and off for over 10 years or so. The game is a monument to multiplayer madness, be it the ferocious PvP community, the most absurd dedication to personal performance found in mythic raiding and dungeons, and down-bad hoarders flexing obscure cosmetics to other likeminded freakazoids. It's probably one of the best games of all time - certainly one of the most important. But almost 20 years since it first hit computers, does its latest expansion - The War Within - still entice?
]]>Activision Blizzard is currently hiring for an unannounced game, and are looking for multiple senior staff to fill up the ranks on this project. This includes a creative director, design director for combat AI, senior art direct, and more.
]]>World of Warcraft’s latest content update for Dragonflight has gone live, and it takes you to the Arathi Highlands for a limited-time, pirate-themed, battle royale-inspired event called Plunderstorm.
]]>Blizzard has made three of its classic games available on Battle.net: Diablo, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, and Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness.
]]>In somewhat surprising news, Johanna Faries has been appointed as the head of Blizzard Entertainment. Faries is mostly known for her work at Activision, where she was most recently the chief of the Call of Duty franchise.
]]>World of Warcraft: Classic has recently been blessed with the Season of Discovery, a new twist on the vanilla format that lets players adventure out into Azeroth again, with new skills and spells at their disposal. However, if you want to try out the shiny new tank Warlock, the steps to unlock the required rune are frankly absurd.
]]>For those keen to jump into World of Warcraft but not huge fans of the whole keyboard and mouse thing, there might be good reason to get excited for the future. In an interview with GamesRadar, WoW vice president and executive producer Holly Longdale stated that they were "pretty well positioned" for an eventual port to consoles.
]]>At BlizzCon 2023, Blizzard announced The Worldsoul Saga, a three-part story arc coming to World of Warcraft, starting with the first expansion The War Within, followed by the second expansion Midnight, and the third, The Last Titan.
]]>We knew it was coming! Blizzard Entertainment has announced World of Warcraft: Classic is getting Cataclysm in the first half of 2024. This means flying mounts in Azeroth, battleground queues, and so much more as the world is torn asunder.
]]>BlizzCon 2023 kicked off yesterday and you can watch Day 2 right here.
]]>It looks like Microsoft’s recently completed deal to acquire Activision Blizzard is already resulting in a slight bump to the amount of people who’re considering subscribing to Xbox Game Pass.
]]>BlizzCon 2023 takes place in November, and ahead of the event, the studio is offering folks two paid bundles featuring in-game goodies to celebrate; however, many players of Blizzard games are unhappy with the purchase prices.
]]>Chris Metzen, former senior VP of story and franchise development at Blizzard has returned to the company after a seven-year hiatus.
]]>If you didn't listen to last week's show you might be confused as to why we're doing a an Easter episode in September. Well, Jim was goaded into it (like he was with the Christmas episode), so we're doing it. We also reserve the right to do another one when it's actually Easter (we're smart like that).
]]>If you didn't listen to last week's show you might be confused as to why we're doing a Christmas episode in September. Well, Jim was goaded into it, so we're doing it. We also reserve the right to do another one when it's actually Christmas.
]]>The United States Federal Trade Commission has requested a short halt to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard King while they examine the deal for potential legal challenges. This request has been granted by US federal courts.
]]>Welcome to the Best Games Ever Show episode 50: The best game that is uncomfortably pro-monarchy.
]]>Following their split earlier this year, NetEase is reportedly suing Blizzard over the refunds for games no longer available in China.
]]>The Trading Post has been added to World of Warcraft, providing free cosmetic rewards for those who complete certain challenges and log in on a monthly basis.
]]>World of Warcraft is getting the trading post starting today, a battle pass style system that allows players to complete challenges for tender tokens that can be traded in for a rotating collection of cosmetics.
]]>The launch of a new WoW expansion is nearly here. In less than 24 hours, tens of thousands of players will spew into World of Warcraft: Dragonflight for all-nighters and gaming marathons. For this sort of undertaking you need passion, will, and lots of snacks.
]]>World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is nearly out, bringing with it a whole new land to explore, new systems, new dangers, collectables, and more.
]]>Blizzard Entertainment has announced it will suspend most Blizzard game services in mainland China due to the expiration of the current licensing agreements with NetEase.
]]>World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is coming in hot, and as you can imagine there’s a big push from the gnomes behind the wheel at Activision Blizzard to ramp up some hype around the launch. They have, after all, been deep in bad PR muck for a while now, and thanks to the bin fire around Overwatch 2, the company needs a win. How it will generate excitement? Giving away a ludicrously expensive mount for free.
]]>The ancestral home of dragonkind is calling you, World of Warcraft players, and soon you shall travel to the Dragon Isles to uncover its long-forgotten secrets.
]]>Wrath of the Lich King is nearly back in Classic World of Warcraft, thanks to the new expansion pre-patch released to the classic servers. This is big news for the old, the nostalgic, and the “back in my day” crowd, who’ll soon be able to venture back to the frozen wastes of Northrend to take down Arthas all over again. I’m sure you’ll get the mount you always wanted this time, bud.
]]>Back in the '90s, a point-and-click adventure game take on Warcraft was in development, and though it was cancelled, a fan has remastered a build of the game that was leaked years ago.
]]>Blizzard and NetEase had a World of Warcraft mobile game in the works, but the companies have apparently canceled development on the project.
]]>Blizzard has announced World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic will be released in September.
]]>Blizzard has announced Dragonflight, the latest expansion for World of Warcraft which brings dragonriding and more to the game.
]]>Blizzard plans to bring the Warcraft franchise to mobile sometime this year.
]]>It's been a big week in gaming. On January 18, we felt seismic waves ripple through the industry as Microsoft announced that it was set to acquire Activision Blizzard; the beleaguered company behind some of gaming's biggest IP that has recently been embroiled in a messy, public discrimination and harrassment lawsuit brought by the state of California.
]]>On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard. This is a platform holder buying one of the biggest games publishers and one of the world's biggest games. Call of Duty, Activision's flagship product, has suffered some declines in recent years, but it remains a massive series. And more significantly, it is one of the most popular games on PlayStation.
]]>According to a senior developer at Activision Blizzard, practically all work on World of Warcraft has been halted by a lawsuit regarding sexual harassment, bullying, unfair pay, and more besides.
]]>Final Fantasy 14 has once again broken its Steam concurrent players record this weekend, this time hitting a massive 47,542 concurrent players.
]]>Activision Blizzard’s Battle.net supports multiplayer games such as Call of Duty, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft. Basically, players buy the games directly from the digital storefront and run them on their PCs. Now, thanks to the Battle.net Summer Sale, players can download these popular titles and DLC for up to a 67% discount.
]]>Blizzard has issued an update to its Battle.net launcher that lets you add friends from around the world — though its own games will still be region-locked.
]]>Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic will be made available in June.
]]>In Activision Blizzard's financial report last night, it was revealed that Blizzard’s revenue grew 7% year-over-year (yoy), but that player numbers were down.
]]>World of Warcraft senior game designer Jeremy Feasel and technical director Frank Kowalkowski detail some of the big changes coming to Blizzard's MMO.
]]>Chains of Domination is the upcoming first major content update for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, and today, Blizzard provided more details on it, even though the leak yesterday outed most of it.
]]>World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic has been announced by Blizzard after yesterday's leak.
]]>Blizzard press materials have leaked ahead of BlizzCon 2021 tomorrow, and reveal what's next for World of Warcraft players.
]]>What to expect from the digital event has been posted.
]]>Sounds like the usual mix of game updates, Q&As and community goodness, without being packed into a convention centre.
]]>Well, that didn't last long. After World of Warcraft's new expansion Shadowlands became the fastest selling PC game of all time, Cyberpunk 2077 has already gone and smashed that record.
]]>Blizzard's latest release, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, has achieved a sales record with more units sold through on the first day of launch than any other PC game in history, according to Blizzard.
]]>After a month’s delay World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Shadowlands, is almost here.
]]>Shadowlands has managed to secure more pre-sales than any other expansion in World of Warcraft history, Blizzard has revealed.
]]>A new release date has been handed to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.
]]>World of Warcraft Shadowlands has been delayed from its original launch date of October 27 until sometime "later this year".
]]>Activision Blizzard has announced BlizzConline, an all-digital, online-only event that will be the alternative to a physical BlizzCon 2020.
]]>Earlier this month, Blizzard invited World of Warcraft: Shadowlands players to choose which free mount they want to see in the expansion after it releases on October 27.
]]>Blizzard is inviting World of Warcraft: Shadowlands players to choose which free mount they get after the expansion releases on October 27.
]]>Blizzard has updated the minimum PC requirements for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands to include HDDs.
]]>World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has a release date.
]]>The first of a four-part animated series for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands was shown off during gamescom Opening Night Live.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>Blizzard recently paid homage to late World of Warcraft player Reckful by permanently adding an NPC named after him to the game.
]]>When Shadowlands arrives this fall, changing your World of Warcraft character's gender will no longer cost you real money.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>The beta for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will launch next week, Blizzard has announced.
]]>The creator of Small World has teamed up with Blizzard to build a World of Warcraft version of its board game.
]]>World of Warcraft ray tracing was recently added to the Shadowlands alpha, which should allow players with high-spec builds to benefit from improved visuals.
]]>The next World of Warcraft expansion will make it easier to play the game on controllers.
]]>Valve honcho and billionaire Gabe Newell once worked as a gold farmer in World of Warcraft while in the early research phase of what would eventually become Steam Workshop.
]]>Amid the US coronavirus lockdown, Blizzard has been delivering care packages of essential supplies to homebound staff in California and Texas.
]]>Blizzard is encouraging players to stay at home during the continued spread of COVID-19 by introducing more reasons to play World of Warcraft.
]]>This isn’t exactly the freshest or most relevant news and it certainly isn’t important or worth writing about, but there is a hill that is also an ass in World of Warcraft. I repeat: there is a hill that is also an ass in WoW.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>US Congressman Rep. Lou Correa was not thrilled to find World of Warcraft players hosting a racist Halloween party in-game.
]]>One of the first big decisions you get in Shadowlands when it releases some time next year is the choice of which Covenant to join.
]]>Nothing can escape the Maw. World of Warcraft’s afterlife is screwed and it’s kind of your fault.
]]>The upcoming World of Warcraft expansion will introduce diverse character skins for the first time in the MMO's 15 years.
]]>A recent Q&A session at BlizzCon 2019 was interrupted by a gutsy kid shouting free Hong Kong.
]]>World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is your next expansion, WoW players.
]]>BlizzCon 2019 kicked off today and you can re-watch the opening ceremony right here.
]]>Images of what looks to be Overwatch 2 and an upcoming World of Warcraft expansion have surfaced online ahead of Blizzcon 2019.
]]>Notable gaps in Blizzcon's timetable suggest some major announcements could be preparing to drop.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>The next huge patch for World of Warcraft will see the addition of two new playable races.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>August has been a really good month for lapsed games to make a bit of a comeback.
]]>Blizzard is giving a free copy of the World of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth to players who reach the level cap in World of Warcraft Classic.
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