Late last year, Blizzard announced WoW's next expansion, pitting the horde and alliance forces against each other once again in the ‘Battle for Azeroth'. Now, we know that the expansion will be launching at some point this summer, with pre-orders going live and granting owners access to new ‘Allied Races'. …
Read More »Blizzard details World of Warcraft’s new Battle of Azeroth expansion
While some will be looking forward to Blizzard’s official World of Warcraft Classic server, going back to pre-expansion packs isn’t for everyone. Those sticking to the current servers need not worry, however, as Blizzard has revealed details on its seventh expansion pack for the MMO, titled Battle for Azeroth. The …
Read More »All proceeds of Blizzard’s new WoW pet goes to disaster relief
In light of the disasters surrounding the U.S., Blizzard has promptly shifted the release of this year’s charity pet in World of Warcraft forward. Every purchase made before December 31st will see the complete $10 adoption fee split evenly between the American Red Cross Disaster Relief and the International Federation …
Read More »Burning Crusade legacy server ‘Felmyst’ shutdown by Blizzard hours after launch
Just over 14 months ago, Blizzard took a clear stance against fan-run legacy WoW servers by shutting down Nostalrius. Since then, there has been some discussion surrounding official legacy servers but nothing has come to fruition, so fans once again turned to creating their own. The next big push for …
Read More »Blizzard starts cracking down on guilds selling WoW dungeon/raid runs for real cash
World of Warcraft is a huge game and one that is certainly difficult to truly get into as a solo player, which is why some guild leaders have managed to make some real-world money selling things like raid or dungeon runs. This practise has been going on for a while but …
Read More »WoW patches to start adding more story content
For over a decade, the cycle of updates and releases for World of Warcraft has seen the biggest and most game changing content come from expansions, rather than patches. Moving forward though that paradigm is going to shift, to allow Blizzard to deliver story updates and more on an increasingly …
Read More »WoW Legion sales top 3.3 million on day one
Sales of World of Warcraft's latest expansion, Legion, show there's still plenty of life in the Azeroth yet. On just the first day of sale, over 3.3 million copies were sold, netting Blizzard a tasty bump in revenue and no doubt a number of returning subscriptions to go along with …
Read More »Latest WoW Short makes you feel sorry for Gul’Dan the outcast
Although Gul'Dan has been quite the trouble maker throughout Azeroth's storied history, you can at least feel a little sorry for him in the latest World of Warcraft short film released to promote the upcoming Legion expansion. In it we learn of his past and what it was that made …
Read More »WoW Legion characters will get their own animated shorts too
Although Quantum Break might have failed to really deliver a game/TV show hybrid product, that doesn't mean the mediums can't be blended in some ways. Take the way Blizzard has been introducing characters for its games in recent years, something it's continuing to do so for upcoming WoW expansion, Legion. …
Read More »Nostalrius admins may be winning over Blizzard staffers
Following the recent shut down of the Nostalrius vanilla World of Warcraft fan-run server, Blizzard was pretty adamant that it wouldn't open up its own, official version. However it may be that the publishing giant is changing its mind, as a meeting with Nostalrius admins went particularly well. Nostalrius was …
Read More »Blizzard responds to Nostalrius private vanilla server closure
Earlier this month, Blizzard sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of Nostalrius, a private vanilla World of Warcraft sever played on by hundreds of thousands of players. This also sparked a petition to get Blizzard to stop ignoring fans calling for legacy servers. It took a couple …
Read More »Thousands gathered to bid fairwell to Nostalrius vanilla WoW server
Despite an active player base of more than 150,000 people, Blizzard forced the final shut down of the Nostalrius, fan-run, vanilla World of Warcraft server this weekend. To mourn this loss and send it off in grand style, several thousand people came together in the hours before the server died, forming …
Read More »Blizzard shuts down vanilla WoW private server with 150k active players
World of Warcraft has really left its mark on the MMO world but there are people out there who still prefer the ‘vanilla' experience, back before Blizzard launched any expansions or made major changes to the game. For those people, there have been private servers available to get a nostalgia fix …
Read More »World of Warcraft: Legion system requirements
World of Warcraft is set to get another expansion this year, which also means that Blizzard has to update the game's PC system requirements. Legion is set to release sometime this year, adding all new content to the game and bringing players back for more, so what will you need …
Read More »Blizzard may be planning WoW Ultimate Movie Edition tie-in
Blizzard's Warcraft movie has been in the making for years but it is finally coming out later this year on the 10th of June so as you would imagine, the studio preparing to ramp up its marketing. According to reports, Blizzard is currently considering a movie/game crossover effort known as World …
Read More »Blizzard is suing a bot maker for copyright infringement
Blizzard has launched a lawsuit at the creators of several popular bot services that help players cheat at World of Warcraft, Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard is accusing the bot developers of copyright infringement and also points out that bot services ruin the gaming experience for legitimate …
Read More »Splitting up quest text in WoW makes it much more readable
Nobody likes reading walls of text, which is why here at KitGuru we try to split it up, throw in pictures, videos and funny captions to keep you entertained while we cram all of the information we can into your eyeballs. It turns out that same principle of breaking up …
Read More »Blizzard will consider Warcraft 4 after StarCraft 2
Fans have been asking Blizzard for a ‘Warcraft 4' for years now, however the developer's RTS efforts have been wrapped up in StarCraft 2 for some time now. However, according to StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void Producer, Tim Morten, Blizzard will continue returning to the Warcraft RTS series once …
Read More »Blizzard just announced the next World of Warcraft expansion
As promised last week, Blizzard held an event at Gamescom today to announce the new World of Warcraft expansion. The new expansion, which is known as ‘Legion' will see the return of The Burning Legion and bring in plenty of new gameplay elements. As with every expansion, the level cap …
Read More »World of Warcraft down to 5.3 million subscribers
WoW has been one of the mainstays of PC gaming for a long time, consistently giving millions of people around the world a universe to escape into to fight, level, raid and explore. That's still the case over 10 years after its release, but following the spike of returning players …
Read More »The next World of Warcraft expansion will be revealed next week
Gamescom is coming up, with the first announcements set to come our way on Sunday the 5th of August. Then on Monday, Blizzard will be making an appearance to show off their next expansion for MMO, World of Warcraft. The reveal will be livestreamed on Monday the 6th of August, …
Read More »Amazon is working on a PC game with some pretty good developers
Amazon has been making a push for gaming, not only did it acquire Double Helix last year, the developer behind Killer Instinct, but it also bought Twitch, the largest video game streaming platform on the planet. Now with all of this in mind, it may not come as such a …
Read More »Blizzard bans World of Warcraft bot users
Blizzard has gone ahead and dropped the ban hammer, wiping out thousands of bot using World of Warcraft accounts in one swoop. Those found to be using the popular HonorBuddy system were faced with six month bans from the game. HonorBuddy was a popular bot system that claims to have …
Read More »World of Warcraft has lost three million subscribers in three months
It seems that the new expansion magic is wearing off for some World of Warcraft players as Blizzard's MMO has lost three million subscribers in the last quarter, Activision Blizzard confirmed during its quarterly earnings report. World of Warcraft closed 2014 with ten million subscribers, now after the 31st of …
Read More »Warcraft movie pushed back three months
Blizzard's Warcraft movie has been in the works for a long time now. Filming wrapped up some time last year and those who attended the 2014 Blizzcon got to see a sneak peek of what is in store for us. However, it looks like more time is needed for post-production. …
Read More »You can now take selfies in World of Warcraft
The latest patch for World of Warcraft adds more than just Twitter integration to the game, players can now also access the S.E.L.F.I.E camera, which does exactly what you would assume it does- take selfie pictures of your in-game character. Patch 6.1, which is currently being sent out to the …
Read More »Warlords of Draenor sees WoW return to prosperity
Ok so World of Warcraft has never really been low on subscriptions, even recently when it was at a historic low of just over seven million, but the latest expansion Warlords of Draenor (WoD) has given it a huge boost. In just 24 hours after the expansion's launch, Blizzard sold (not shipped) …
Read More »World of Warcraft to go on for at least another decade
World of Warcraft is now ten years old and Blizzard is fully expecting it to still be around when it turns twenty, according to lead designer, Ion Hazzikostas. With Blizzard's recently cancelled MMO, Titan, now out of the picture, it looks like to publisher is throwing its resources back in …
Read More »You’ll soon be able to ‘undelete’ past World of Warcraft characters
Blizzard has announced that soon World of Warcraft players will be able to revive past characters that they had deleted. The ‘Undelete' feature will be rolling out in a content patch just prior to the release of Warlords of Draenor. Not all characters will be eligible for recovery though, characters …
Read More »Blizzard officially cancels MMO Titan after seven years in development
Blizzard has apparently canned its upcoming next gen MMO, Titan, after seven years in development. Rumors began swirling around the title once again last year when it was reported that Blizzard was taking the project ‘back to the drawing board' but it seems that it will never see the light …
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