Our latest coverage of World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft players have taken to Reddit in an attempt to warn others that there is a bizarre new chat exploit making the rounds in Blizzard's ever-popular MMORPG. The exploit involves a user asking players to execute a specific /run command. Once the command has been executed, the user can essentially take over the client of the player who [...]
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This past weekend the Nostalrius team released some data from their post-mortem community survey, one which I participated in along with 50,000 other respondents. The 9 page PDF provides some interesting information: Nostarlius had ~6,000 players online at any given time, with players from around the world. The average age was between 19 and 25, suggesting that some players did [...]
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Blizzard announced yesterday that World of Warcraft's Legion Pre-Expansion Patch has hit Public Test Realms. Players interested in trying out some of Legion's new features can do so now, albeit not on the live servers. The Transmogrification Collections System is available. The new "Survival Hunter" can be played. The changes to PvP, including equalized gear, are available to be experienced. [...]
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According to Blizzard Watch, Blizzard announced that it is creating an animated series based on World of Warcraft's Illidan Stormrage at a recent summit for Legion. The series, called Harbingers, has no release date, but Blizzard Watch described it as follows. In Harbingers, we saw the story of Illidan recruiting high elves in his fight against the invading demons. It [...]
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Nostalrius' meeting with Blizzard has come and gone. After spending some time preparing to do so, the team behind the popular World of Warcraft private server announced the details of the meeting earlier today. One quote stands out among the rest: "After this meeting, we can affirm that these guys WANT to have legacy WoW servers, that is for sure." [...]
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The World of Warcraft: Legion expansion brings with it a ton of updates not the least of which is the massive overhaul to the Talent tree. Aside from major gameplay changes, Blizzard is also working on improving the game’s overall graphics quality, including a visual update that will extend the game’s draw distance. Which, as you can see from the [...]
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Blizzard announced today via press release that it has teamed up with Facebook to bring Facebook login integration to its games, as well as use "Facebook’s Live API in order to create its own 'Go Live' streaming functionality for its games." The new set of features resulting from the partnership will be available in the following titles: Diablo III, Hearthstone, [...]
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The news that Blizzard will be reworking the World of Warcraft Talent system with the launch of the Legion expansion has been out for quite some time now. Amid all the confusion and speculation brewing within the gaming community, the game's developers have been particularly tight-lipped as to why exactly they're turning the system on its head. Fortunately, they’ve finally [...]
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In a world where Blizzard shut down the most popular World of Warcraft private server and the team behind it decided not to open source it after all, one man ignored all of the warning signs and is attempting to get his Wrath of the Lich King private server software onto Steam. His name is post4kost. Now, it's undeniably true [...]
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Blizzard announced today that a free digital copy of World of Warcraft will come with each ticket to the Warcraft movie when purchased from select movie theater chains in select regions. Promotions running in the United States are as follows. The United States Anyone who buys a ticket to see Warcraft at participating Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theaters, and Edwards [...]
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