Our latest coverage of World of Warcraft.
Dear Blizzard, We need to have a pow-wow. What have you done? Shutting down Nostalrius accomplishes nothing more than inspire the contempt of Vanilla World of Warcraft fans. You can flex your billionaire legal muscles and claim what is rightfully yours as far as the law is concerned, but to what end? What purpose does sending one of the most [...]
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SuperData's latest report is out. Several predictions are included, but the one that stands out most is the prediction that "Chinese companies will scoop up 1-2 western publishers a month from here on." The prediction comes just over a week after it was announced that Jagex may be acquired by a Chinese mining company called Shandong Hongda. The full quote [...]
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Now a mere three months away, the Warcraft movie is headed to theaters on June 10th. To begin to get people hyped for the release, Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures have released a new trailer and poster for the title, both embedded below. The new trailer starts off slow and ramps up from there. There's no dialogue in the trailer [...]
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Discord's in-game overlay is finally here. No more alt-tabbing to change channels or settings. You can do it all in-game now—for voice chat. Currently, the overlay only works on Windows and does not support any kind of text chat. Your antivirus may also flag it as a false positive. To enable the overlay, users simply have to go into their [...]
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As ESPN continues to make its move into the growing world of eSports, it has begun publishing columns about the state of eSports. Yesterday, it published an article that discusses the state of MMORPGs in eSports. It talks about a number of challenges that MMORPGs face, such as matches being difficult to understand without intimate knowledge of the game's mechanics. [...]
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The now massively popular Vanilla WoW progression server Nostalruis Begins celebrated its first year anniversary last Sunday. Launched on February 28th 2015, Nostralruis has become the most popular World of Warcraft private server in service. The server launched with 4k-5k concurrent players and never stopped growing. Just last month the server hit 13.1k concurrent players during peak time. What makes [...]
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Ever wondered what World of Warcraft might look like if the graphics were a little more modern and a little more realistic? Modder Daniel L has given us a look at exactly that with two videos showing off his renditions of Elwynn Forest and Westfall in Unreal Engine 4. These scenes were created with free assets, so they're not quite [...]
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With little doubt, the silver screen is one of the hardest truths for the gaming community to swallow. There haven’t been many successful gaming-to-film adaptations, and the ones we do consider worthy often need a large helping of apologies and rationalizations: that humorless Hitman film, the gory and hollow Silent Hill, Prince of Persia, Lara Croft, and Mortal Kombat—whose ludicrously [...]
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Thanks to redditor exo316 we can look at World of Warcraft's baby steps all the way back in 1999. I can't help but remember World of Warcraft with warm nostalgia, but it's baffling to realize just how old Blizzard's MMORPG is: WoW was already in development the same year Everquest released. The screenshots are rudimentary, displaying a basic user interface and [...]
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Week after week and year after year, I read about someone’s endless torment as they attempt to find a new MMO to call home. We’ve all probably read the popular reasons dozens—if not hundreds—of times over. They can’t handle another World of Warcraft copy-paste game. They can’t do open PvP. But there’s another common issue with modern MMOs that seems [...]
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