World of Warcraft News

After being delayed from late October to late November, World of Warcraft players can finally cross the veil to the afterlife with the official launch of the highly-awaited Shadowlands expansion. Shadowlands is the eighth expansion for Blizzard’s classic fantasy MMORPG which has just turned sweet sixteen in time with the expansion’s launch yesterday. "With a single act of destruction, Sylvanas [...]

Blizzard Entertainment has just dropped a new dev blog and video survival guide in preparation for the World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion next week. The dev blog gives players and fans a quick overview of how Professions will work in Shadownlands. This includes the introduction of Legendary Runecarving, less backfires for Engineers, optional reagents, and the removal of Star Ranks. [...]

The long-awaited World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion is finally launching next week and Blizzard Entertainment is eager to get the hype train rolling with a new cinematic trailer. The trailer shows off the four Covenants and their respective zones in the Shadowlands. The Jailer, which has been the subject of datamining over the past few months, also makes a quick [...]

Blizzard Entertainment paves the way for the World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion launch later this month with a pre-expansion event where players will once again face off against the Scourge. The two-part event will run until the expansion’s release and will give players above a chance to earn tokens to purchase the event-exclusive Argent Conscript armor set, the Putrid Geist [...]

Blizzard Entertainment is giving inactive World of Warcraft players a chance to try out the game in its current form for free from now until November 8th. The free-play event will include access to the game and all the characters on the inactive account without the need for a subscription. “Shadowlands is nearly here, and you and your allies are [...]

Blizzard Entertainment has just updated their policy to make multi-boxing a whole lot harder to get away with in World of Warcraft. Technically, it’s the third-party software itself that’s illegal but it does make life more difficult for botters and RMT traders. Blizzard explains in a recent post on the official site: “As World of Warcraft has evolved, our policies [...]

World of Warcraft's latest expansion 'Shadowlands' is officially launching on November 23. It was originally set to launch in October, but was delayed because of business interruptions from the Coronavirus. The game is officially launching at 3PM PST on November 23. The pre-launch event, Scourge Invasions, begin on November 10th which builds up the storyline for Shadowlands. The first Shadowlands [...]

After months of waiting plus a few extra hours for the servers to come online, World of Warcraft players finally got to dive in to the Shadowlands pre-patch last night. As expected, Blizzard Entertainment hit a few snags as soon as the floodgates opened on patch day including login queues, lag, and disconnection problems. Pre-patch 9.0.1, like previous pre-patches, gives [...]

We have exactly one week to go before the World of Warcraft Shadowlands pre-patch drops which means it’s time to settle any unfinished business you have in Battle for Azeroth in preparation for the afterlife. When the pre-patch goes live, a lot of changes will be coming to the game which Blizzard Entertainment will be walking you through in their [...]

As Blizzard Entertainment gears up for the eventual release of World of Warcraft Shadowlands and fans eagerly-await the pre-patch’s arrival (whenever that may be), now would probably be a good time to catch up on what’s happening in the game lore-wise. YouTuber Platinum WoW has published an informative, entertaining, and slightly comical 20-minute video to help get you up to [...]