Our latest coverage of World of Warcraft.
Wondering why we haven't heard anything from Nostalrius in over a week? The quest for World of Warcraft legacy servers takes time to prepare. A new announcement posted yesterday states the following. During the last few weeks, our team has been continuing the post-mortem analysis/writing that we have been conducting in the background since Nostalrius shutdown, plus interviews with several [...]
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The Nostalrius team announced over the weekend that it had put out a survey that is designed to ask you questions about what you might want from a World of Warcraft legacy server. For example, would you like a progression server or a Burning Crusade server? There are also a number of questionable questions, such as "what is your favorite [...]
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World of Warcraft fans have been busy recently, as two impressive new videos have shown up on YouTube. In one, Ivan Kuzkin recreates the entire Warcraft movie trailer in World of Warcraft itself. A side-by-side comparison was provided, as well, to show just how close of a match it is. In the other video, Hayven Games attempts to restore Quel'Thalas—the [...]
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Today was a good day for Activision Blizzard shareholders (ticker ATVI) as the company reported $1.46 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 (vs $1.28 billion in the same quarter last year). These numbers handedly beat expectations and the company's stock soared over 6%, making the company worth a bit over $27 billion. Aside from posting stellar revenue [...]
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For all you Azerothians looking for something new to do while waiting for the next expansion look no farther. Blizzard is hosting a Children's Week event that ends on May 9th. During this event you get to have an orphan follow you around as you show them what a true hero does day to day. For most orphans it might [...]
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By now, you have likely heard that the Nostalrius team is set to meet with Blizzard. The team has now released a new update in which the following is stated: After the answer from Blizzard and the amazing support we received, we feel we are now not only the admins of a private server: We are also the ambassadors of [...]
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When Blizzard explained why it shut down Nostalrius, it was mentioned that the company had been in contact with the team that had been in contact with members of Nostalrius' team. While the nature of their discussions has still yet to be announced, it appears that discussions are going fairly well, as the Nostalrius team announced today that they will [...]
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The shutdown of Nostalrius has spread discontent within the World of Warcraft community. There have been talks of boycotts. There was a Change.org petition. Our own Sean Sullivan wrote an editorial about the shutdown. There has simply been a lot of buzz surrounding Nostalrius and Blizzard's decision to issue the server's hosts a cease and desist letter. Last night, Blizzard [...]
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After holding us in suspense for quite some time, Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft: Legion will be launching on August 30th. As with many of Blizzard's other recent pre-purchase offers, you can either pre-purchase the expansion alone for $49.99 or get the Digital Deluxe Edition— which contains various mounts and other items for all of Blizzard's games—for $69.99. [...]
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The team behind World of Warcraft's largest private server Nostalrius announced yesterday that they will be shutting the server down following cease and desist letters that Blizzard had sent to both them and their hosting provider, OVH. The shutdown will officially occur on April 10th, granted their hosting company does not shut them down before then. Soon, the Nostalrius server [...]
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