Tag Archives: WOW

Just as promised, last night Blizzard officially announced the next World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight, complete with a new playable race and class. Alongside the new expansion, World of Warcraft Classic will also be getting the Wrath of the Lich King expansion later this year. 

We're a few hours away from Blizzard's stream announcing the next World of Warcraft expansion, but a number of details appear to have already leaked. According to a familiar sources responsible for leaking the Legion expansion several years ago, new gameplay and release date details have been revealed.  The news …

Blizzard has been supporting WoW Classic for a few years now, offering players a way to go back and experience the game as it was many years ago. Last year, The Burning Crusade expansion came to WoW Classic, opening up the possibility that we'll see other expansions too in the …

A couple of weeks ago, Blizzard confirmed plans to announce the next major World of Warcraft expansion in April. Now, ahead of that announcement date, details have begun leaking.  Through datamining efforts, Wowhead has found details on the next WoW expansion, which appears to be named “Dragonflight”. As usual, the …

There is no Blizzcon taking place this year, but Blizzard does have announcements for 2022. This week, the studio shared a roadmap of upcoming announcements, including the next World of Warcraft expansion, which will be revealed in April.  The announcements will begin on the 15th of March, when the next …

A few years ago, Blizzard found itself in a tough position with fans after using up stage time at BlizzCon to announce Diablo Immortal, a mobile-only spin-off game that has still yet to release. At the time, sources indicated that Blizzard had several other mobile games in the works, including …

Activision Blizzard is going through a number of internal changes at the moment in the wake of a lawsuit regarding workplace harassment at the company. We've already seen Blizzard's president and head of HR leave the company, and now, a number of high profile developers have been let go, including …

Two days ago, Blizzard accidentally leaked a June 1st launch date for WoW Classic: Burning Crusade. At the time, we didn't know if this was the final release date or a placeholder, but that changes today, with Blizzard officially confirming the launch.  The Burning Crusade is coming to World of …

Blizzard has caused some drama this week after making changes to ‘game time' codes for World of Warcraft. While previously people could buy game time cards for 30, 60, 90 or 180 days, three of those options have been removed, leaving 60 day game time purchases as the only option.  …

There were a number of leaks ahead of BlizzCon's big announcement stream last night, one of which was The Burning Crusade expansion for WoW Classic. As expected, Blizzard officially announced the new update last night, which will be available later this year.  Burning Crusade Classic is a new set of …

BlizzCon is set to kick off later today, but some of the surprises in store are leaking early. One of those surprises appears to be the Burning Crusade expansion for WoW Classic.  The idea of adding Burning Crusade to WoW Classic has been floating around for a long time now. …

BlizzCon Online is coming up next month and as a result, rumours around what Blizzard is bringing to the table this year are swirling. One of those rumours is the next big update for World of Warcraft: Classic, which will include The Burning Crusade expansion.  To cap off 2020, Blizzard …

Each time a new World of Warcraft expansion launches, it seems to out-do the previous one in terms of sales. The case is no different for the recently launched Shadowlands expansion, which Blizzard claims is the “fastest-selling PC game of all time industry-wide”. Previously, the fastest selling PC-only game was …

With each WoW expansion launch, players generally expect lengthy log-in queues and minor issues. Unfortunately, in the case of Shadowlands, servers are struggling far more than expected.  Lengthy, several hour long log-in queues are one of the lingering issues, but some players are also experiencing disconnections and lag when finally …

In a surprise announcement, Blizzard today has announced that World of Warcraft now runs natively on Apple Silicon. The announcement comes just in time for the launch of Apple's latest MacBooks, all powered by the Apple M1 SoC.  This is very notable, as it means WoW can run on ARM64 …

Ahead of WoW's next big expansion launch, Blizzard is making an effort to crack down on certain in-game practices. The most notable thing here is a renewed stance against multi-boxing and automated gameplay methods.  This week, Blizzard issued a policy update for input broadcasting software. This allows a single keystroke …

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is finally releasing later this month after delays pushed it out of October and it is already looking to be the biggest expansion launch for the game so far.  During a recent Activision Blizzard earnings call, the publisher boasted that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has the …

Back in August, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands would release on the 27th of October – a new trailer was also released alongside the announcement. Since then though, Blizzard has run into some difficulties and as a result, the expansion has been delayed.  World of Warcraft: Shadowlands executive …

The rumour mill began spinning early this week, as World of Warcraft: Shadowlands was rated in Brazil for both PC and Xbox Series X. There have been rumours of a console port for WoW floating around for years and at the time, this seemed like the evidence console-only gamers had …

Since its release all the way back in 2004, World of Warcraft has been exclusively available on PC hardware. Over the course of this console generation though, it has been proven that MMOs can work on set hardware with a gamepad. Now, it looks like World of Warcraft may end …

With World of Warcraft's next expansion launching within the next few months, Blizzard has been planning to show off more footage and share new details about what fans of the MMO can look forward to. There was supposed to be some announcements taking place live next week, but the event …

Steam Workshop has been around for years now and many of us just assumed that the idea came about due to Valve's history with the modding community. As it turns out though, part of the reason Workshop came into existence is thanks to World of Warcraft, as Gabe Newell got …

NZXT has launched two new H510 cases in partnership with Blizzard – the H510 Alliance, and the H510 Horde. Both cases are part of NZXT's CRFT series, a product line of limited edition cases. Both H510 cases are made with the two WoW factions in mind, representing the Horde and …

Back in April 2016, Blizzard shut down Nostalrius, one of the most popular vanilla WoW private servers around. This kicked off a lengthy discussion for Blizzard, with the studio ultimately announcing plans to launch WoW Classic. That announcement came in late 2017 but after much waiting, the game is finally nearing release …

Blizzard caught a lot of flack a couple of years ago for striking down private servers hosting Vanilla WoW. This year, the team will be making things right by launching WoW Classic, an official version of Vanilla World of Warcraft available to all active players. Classic is currently in closed …

Back in April 2016, Blizzard shut down Nostalrius, one of the most popular vanilla WoW private servers around. This kicked off a lengthy discussion for Blizzard, with the studio ultimately announcing plans to launch WoW Classic. That announcement came in late 2017 and now this year, people will finally have …

Blizzard is going through another big change this year, as Mike Morhaime, studio co-founder, is stepping down. Morhaime worked at Blizzard for 27 years but will be departing this year, with WoW executive producer, J. Allen Brack set to take over as president. Morhaime will no longer be leading Blizzard …

It looks like World of Warcraft is still alive and well as Blizzard's latest expansion, Battle for Azeroth, has become the game's fastest selling expansion. Earlier today, Blizzard announced that Battle for Azeroth sold 3.4 million copies worldwide on day one. These day one sales beat out the launch of …

Blizzard is quite well known for leaking information about new projects through job listings, and they’ve done it again. This time they are looking for a Dungeon Artist for a currently unannounced Diablo project. On the Job Openings section of the Blizzard website, you will find the position of ‘Dungeon …

Back in November, Blizzard announced WoW's next expansion, Battle for Azeroth, pitting the horde and alliance forces against each other once again. Pre-orders went live in January, giving players a number of benefits prior to the expansion's launch and now, we have a final release date. Battle for Azeroth will …