Our latest coverage of World of Warcraft.
Valentines Day is just around the corner and World of Warcraft has a number of special treats planned for Azeroth’s hopeless romantics. From February 7th to the 21st, Azeroth will be celebrating their annual Love is in the Air holiday. As part of the holiday, the lovestruck citizens of Azeroth will be able to earn Love Tokens by completing event-related [...]
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Blizzard now lets World of Warcraft players trade in their gold for WoW tokens, and then trade those in for Battle.net moolah—letting you make purchases in any Blizzard game. You can buy a token in the game and then sell it to another player for gold. But once its sold the token is soulbound. So the buyer can only exchange [...]
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Yes, that headline is correct. The other day a World of Warcraft themed cooking show debuted in South Korea, called Wow! Recipe? The Meal Is Ready. And it's no joke. It's serious business cooking. The show is hosted by Choi Hyun-seok, a South Korean celebrity chef, and it's backed by Blizzard. On each episode Choi Hyun-seok will cook a WoW themed [...]
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Dear Nostalrius, You know, I never thought I would need to sit you down in the corner, put a dunce cap on your head, and scold you with a ruler whacking against my hand. That’s supposed to be reserved for the class bullies, like Blizzard, who’s still in detention. But, here we are. Instead of being an individual you’re a [...]
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Fly In The Wall January 11th, 2017 Level 21 /played: 3 days, 7 hours Since release, I have played Vanilla World of Warcraft every day—Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Today—logging in (trying to log in) right after breakfast, not knowing if the sun has been clocking into work. It’s unbelievable. Not since Final Fantasy XIV’s closed beta have I been manically [...]
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World of Warcraft's next raid sends players to the heart of Suramar, to the Nigthold, a 10 boss journey to rid the former shining city of the demons that lurk within. Reach the end of the dungeon and you'll face the Gul'dan himself, surrounded by a "vortex of fel energy." The largest structure in the Broken Isles and among the [...]
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January 7th, 2017 /played, 10 hours. My alarm shook at 9:00 AM, playing Biggie Smalls’ “Warning,” a typical wake-up call if not for the tuned-in beat and sonorous lyric: “Who the fuck is this….” I’ll tell you who this is Biggie. It’s a guy who wanted to be woken up on the weekend because he’s excited and anxious, and paranoid. [...]
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Blizzard has added the secret cow level in World of Warcraft to commemorate Diablo's 20th anniversary. The secret cow level is a hidden area in Diablo 2, brimming with spear-wielding cows mooing as they charge at you, protecting their Cow King. Now you can do the same in WoW. To open a portal you'll need to kill a Treasure Goblin [...]
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Over the weekend the vanilla World of Warcraft private server Elysium relaunched Nostalrius' PvE and PvP servers, but it did not go smoothly. Dear community, we are working to address the lag and login servers. However, please be aware, we are undergoing 6 concurrent DDoS attacks. — Elysium Project (@elysium_dev) December 18, 2016 Not only were some trolls messing with the [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has created their own book publishing label—Blizzard Publishing—to create and re-release stories set in their universes: Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft. “Great stories and inspiring artwork have always been at the heart of everything we do,” said Lydia Bottegoni, senior vice president of story and franchise development at Blizzard Entertainment. “The creation of Blizzard Publishing gives us new opportunities to [...]
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