Single-player games withstood World of Warcraft. They’ll survive PUBG, too

GUEST: With the recent cancellation of Visceral’s single-player Star Wars game, shifting focus of big publishers on multiplayer games and more than stellar success of cooperative multiplayer games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, gamers are starting to ask questions. Are single-player story-driven games dead? Do players want them contrary to what some big publishers say? Do they […]

World of Warcraft devs explain how Legion takes us to Battle for Azeroth

The World of Warcraft is going back to its roots: war. Blizzard Entertainment announced earlier this month at BlizzCon that its next expansion, Battle for Azeroth, is coming out in 2018. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game’s seventh expansion focuses on the war between its two player factions: the Alliance and the Horde. But it’s also adding new […]

Blizzard finally relents to years of fan pressure with World of Warcraft Classic

Enlarge / We were wondering when they’d finally get around to this. (credit: Blizzard Entertainment) Blizzard’s annual Blizzcon event in Anaheim, California, kicked off on Friday with various game-related announcements, but the most surprising one dug back into the company’s history. Finally, fans’ requests for a major turn back of the World of Warcraft clock […]

World of Warcraft Shadows of Argus: Release date for patch 7.3 revealed at Gamescom

With things looking pretty bleak in Azeroth, the world’s greatest heroes prepare a desperate mission into the heart of the Burning Legion’s stronghold.  Blizzard revealed today that World of Warcraft: Shadows of Argus will see players battle against the forces of the Legion on their home turf, the fel-scarred planet Argus. This was all revealed during […]

This World of Warcraft fan concept hints at what MMOs could look like in VR

If you have ever spent much time inside of a modern VR headset then chances are you’ve had your fair share of “Wow!” moments. But not many people have actually had a WoW (World of Warcraft) moment in VR because Blizzard’s actual game doesn’t have VR support. As the most popular Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying […]

Why Hearthstone’s Frozen Throne expansion matters to Warcraft fans

Blizzard has excited many of Hearthstone‘s fans by announcing that its next expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, will take players to Icecrown Citadel. But if you’re one of the digital card game’s many players who doesn’t have much Warcraft knowledge, you might be wondering what the fuss is about. Icecrown Citadel is the final […]

Diablo 2 remake or remastered? And is Blizzard’s Warcraft 3 also joining the list?

A new job listing appears to have confirmed that some big news is going to be announced at Blizzcon 2017. While we already know that Starcraft Remastered is a project landing later this summer, it appears more project are being given the greenlight. Could this mean a Diablo 2 remake and a Warcraft 3 remaster? Fans […]

World of Warcraft in the streets, edtech MMO in the sheets

SPONSORED: Presented by Intel Immersed Games is an early-stage edtech (educational technology) startup unlike any other, the brainchild of a diehard MMORPG player and PhD candidate Lindsey Tropf, born in the wake of a World-of-Warcraft­triggered epiphany. And suddenly Tropf found herself the founder and CEO of a game company. The WoW moment “I had been […]

World of Warcraft gold can now be used to buy other Blizzard items

Enlarge / Those huge heaps of WoW gold have got to be worth, like, $ 50 on Blizzard.net. Easily. It has been almost two years now since Blizzard began letting World of Warcraft players pay for their monthly game-time subscriptions using in-game gold rather than real money. Now, Blizzard is expanding that effort by letting players indirectly […]