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Modern Warfare Adopts Battle Pass Instead of Loot Boxes

Today Activision announced an entirely new plan for post-launch support for upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. First, the publisher confirmed in a blog post that there will be no loot…

October 17, 2019 | 03:39 EDT

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare Devs Say They Aren't Working on Loot Boxes

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare loot boxes won't be a thing according to a statement from one of the game's developers. Fan speculation on the monetization model of the next game in the Modern Warfare …

October 15, 2019 | 07:53 EDT

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Blizzard Forcibly Changes Gay World of Warcraft Guild Name

Blizzard changed the name of a World of Warcraft Classic guild with the name "GAY BOYS" after mass user reporting. According to Ars Technica, the guild's name was changed on Wednesday to an…

October 11, 2019 | 12:55 EDT

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PC Specs Revealed

After much speculation, the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PC specs have finally been released. If you're wondering whether or not you have a powerful enough rig to run the latest game in the Call of…

October 9, 2019 | 12:47 EDT

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Unboxing the World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Collector's Edition

It's been 15 years since the launch of the MMO that changed gaming—and many lives—forever. World of Warcraft dazzled players with its unparalleled world and incredible gameplay. Blizzard's flagship…

October 7, 2019 | 06:54 EDT

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a relaunch of the Modern Warfare subfranchise. It's been nearly eight years since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 hit the shelves, and now Captain Price and his…

October 1, 2019 | 02:27 EDT

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World of Warcraft DDOS Attacker Arrested

Earlier this month, World of Warcraft Classic was struck by a DDOS attack that hampered the game's playability. Now, we've received reports that a perpetrator behind the World of Warcraft DDOS has…

September 19, 2019 | 08:02 EDT

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World of Warcraft DDoS Takes Down Servers For Second Day In a Row

After being down yesterday for most of the day due to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, another World of Warcraft DDOS attack has happened today. This is affecting both normal World of…

September 8, 2019 | 04:30 EDT

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[Updated] World of Warcraft Servers are being DDOSed, Other Blizzard Games May Be Affected

Update 2 - 9/8/2019, 3:30 PM: Blizzard has confirmed another series of DDoS attacks on World of Warcraft servers. Update 1 - 9/8/2019, 7:50 AM: Blizzard has confirmed that the DDOS Attacks have ended…

September 7, 2019 | 04:36 EDT

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Starcraft FPS Reportedly Canceled in Favor of Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4

A Starcraft FPS was reportedly in the works for more than two years before it was just recently axed by Blizzard Entertainment. While a potential Starcraft first-person shooter would have been pretty…

June 6, 2019 | 05:50 EDT

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World of Warcraft is Discontinuing their Recruit-A-Friend Program

Some sad news for veteran World of Warcraft players. The MMO's Recruit-A-Friend program, which has been a part of the game for well over a decade now, is being discontinued at the beginning of June.…

May 14, 2019 | 01:30 EDT

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Warcraft & Warcraft II Now Available On GOG

Two of Blizzard Entertainment's seminal RTS titles, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition are available on GOG.com for the first time. GOG announced their partnership with…

March 28, 2019 | 12:30 EDT

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Blizzard Entertainment Says No Diablo 4 Announcements Were Pulled From Blizzcon

Contrary to earlier reports, an announcement for Diablo IV following the reveal of Diablo Immortal was not in the cards according to a statement from Blizzard as reported by IGN. Diablo Immortal was…

November 6, 2018 | 06:00 EST

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World of Warcraft Classic Is A Slow, Leisurely Reminder Of What Came Before

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that Blizzard is finally releasing official servers for World of Warcraft classic. People have been running not-so-legal private servers for years…

November 6, 2018 | 03:00 EST

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[Updated] Blizzard Working on Diablo 4 - May have Had a BlizzCon Announcement In Mind?

Update: Blizzard has denied the story and Jason Schrier who reported the original has said there may be some confusion on timing on when the video about Diablo 4 was going to run. You can read more…

November 5, 2018 | 06:34 EST

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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Review - Worldbuilding of Warcraft

World of Warcraft and nostalgia are inextricably linked. Often, longtime players remember in-game locations as they would childhood homes. In the real world, places such as these change: they are…

August 25, 2018 | 01:00 EDT

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World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth Story Datamined

Some key story of elements of the upcoming World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth expansion have been datamined as reported by PCGamesN. World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth is the upcoming seventh…

February 15, 2018 | 05:25 EST

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BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Announced

Today at BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment announced the seventh expansion for their MMO: World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJr3dXZfcg
 “Conflict is at…

November 3, 2017 | 06:36 EDT

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BlizzCon 2017: WoW Classic Servers Announced

Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced that World of Warcraft Classic servers would be arriving for their MMORPG title, World of Warcraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcZyiYOzsSw This comes in…

November 3, 2017 | 05:40 EDT

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Felmyst WoW Private Server Server Shutdown By Blizzard

April of last year, one of the most prominent private servers running World of Warcraft, Nostalrius, was shutdown by Blizzard, which caused quite the outcry. That was not the only private server for…

July 24, 2017 | 07:32 EDT

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PvE and eSports Collide: Blizzard Announces Mythic Dungeon Invitational for WoW

When a game has been around for near 13 years now receiving continual updates, you have to get creative in keeping people interested. Blizzard did a great job of that with the new World of Warcraft…

July 11, 2017 | 11:43 EDT

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The History of Diablo 3 - A Journey Through Hell And Madness

When I say Diablo 3 what comes to mind? The answer to that question depends on what you've heard throughout the years or experienced, from infamous events like the always-online DRM (remember when we…

May 23, 2017 | 11:00 EDT

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World of Warcraft Bot Honorbuddy Banned in Germany

A court case held in Germany last week between World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment and Bossland GmbH, the makers of the controversial (yet popular) Honorbuddy automation bot, has…

January 23, 2017 | 10:00 EST

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Legacy World of Warcraft Server Nostalrius Retracts Source Code

With the shutdown of the Legacy World of Warcraft project Nostalrius last year, and the subsequent discussion between Blizzard and the Nostalrius admins, hopes were high that official Legacy World of…

January 18, 2017 | 03:59 EST

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Looking Back At World of Warcraft's Burning Crusade, 10 Years Later

10 years ago the Dark Portal was reopened and the forces of the Horde and the Alliance, bolstered by their new Blood Elf and Draenei allies, made their way to the Hellfire Peninsula as they sought to…

January 15, 2017 | 07:43 EST

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World of Warcraft 7.1.5 Update Adds Raid, Micro Holidays

Blizzard has released a new video on its YouTube channel detailing the new content coming to World of Warcraft on January 10. Timewalking  Once patch 7.1.5 gets released you will be able to…

January 7, 2017 | 11:02 EST

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World of Warcraft Releases Anniversary Gift Package

Blizzard Entertainment's MMO World of Warcraft is celebrating its 12-year anniversary by giving players an Anniversary Gift Package through a vendor as reported by the game's official website.…

November 17, 2016 | 09:32 EST

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Nostalrius Team To Release Vanillla WoW Server Source Code

Back in October, the team behind the Nostalrius vanilla World of Warcraft private server promised to bring back the popular server if Blizzard didn't announce an official vanilla server at this year'…

November 7, 2016 | 10:03 EST

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Here's What's Next for World of Warcraft

The recently released Legion expansion for Blizzard Entertainment's popular MMO World of Warcraft has been a wonderful return to form for the aging game. During this year's BlizzCon, Blizzard's…

November 5, 2016 | 10:00 EDT

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Nostalrius Admins Teasing Relaunch of Vanilla WoW Server

Fans of the “good ol’ days” of World of Warcraft may soon see news of classic servers, even if it is not through official (or legal) means. Earlier this year, the private server Nostalrius was shut…

October 24, 2016 | 07:15 EDT

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World of Warcraft: Legion Review - You Are Not Prepared

World of Warcraft: Legion is the sixth expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s behemoth of an MMORPG World of Warcraft, and it is an expansion that I have been waiting for a very long time to…

September 20, 2016 | 09:00 EDT

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World of Warcraft

Save the world one expansion at a time in Blizzard Entertainment's long-running MMO.

September 18, 2016 | 06:14 EDT

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World of Warcraft: Legion First Impressions

As a developer, Blizzard has always chosen to master a video game genre instead of innovating it. While the Warcraft and Starcraft RTS games were far from being the first in the genre, they are…

September 15, 2016 | 09:00 EDT

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World of Warcraft Players Discovered a Hidden World Boss

Game developers sometimes like to throw little secrets into their games for players to discover, granted they know how to discover it in the first place. These secrets range from easter eggs…

September 7, 2016 | 09:45 EDT

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World of Warcraft: Legion Devs Breaking Some Raid Assist Addons

Fan-made addons are a staple of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and have been since the game’s release in 2004. Before Blizzard implemented quest tracking the idea incubated from an addon. This happened…

August 22, 2016 | 01:45 EDT

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World of Warcraft: Legion Pre-Expansion Patch Coming July 19

It's only a few relatively short weeks away until World of Warcraft players around the globe can take the fight to the Burning legion to make Azeroth great again! In preparation of this, developer…

July 16, 2016 | 10:48 EDT

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World of Warcraft: Legion Gets Series of Animated Shorts

With the August 30 release of the newest expansion pack for Blizzard Entertainment's perpetual cash cow World of Warcraft looming just over the horizon, the American MMO-giant will be starting their…

June 12, 2016 | 12:15 EDT

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Vanilla World Of Warcraft Private Server Releases Update

Nostalrius Begins, a private World of Warcraft server that was recently thrust into the limelight due to Blizzard Entertainment shutting them down, has released a new statement on their official…

May 1, 2016 | 06:21 EDT

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The Legion comes to World of Warcraft August 30th

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that Legion, the newest expansion for World of Warcraft, will be launching August 30th of this year. Legion is currently available for pre-order and boasts a…

April 18, 2016 | 11:51 EDT

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[Updated] Petition for Legacy World of Warcraft Servers Passes 230k

Update: As of 11:30 AM EST on April 26th, 2016 – the petition for Legacy World of Warcraft servers has now reached over 235,000 signatures. Original Article: World of Warcraft, the highly…

April 16, 2016 | 03:20 EDT

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Prominent World of Warcraft Vanilla Server Shut Down By Blizzard

Private servers have been a part of MMO culture for as long as the genre exists, and they have been a particularly stinging thorn in the side of the developers running their official servers. These…

April 7, 2016 | 08:00 EDT

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Most Anticipated Games of 2016 – World of Warcraft: Legion

There is no question that World of Warcraft has been in some turbulent, up-and-down times recently, with subscribers in a definite gradual decline. I personally haven't played WoW on a regular basis…

February 24, 2016 | 01:00 EST

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BlizzCon 2015: World of Warcraft: Legion Panel

Blizzard Entertainment has released a ton of information for their newest expansion for World of Warcraft: Legion today, and as a result here is a roundup of the most prominent news that resulted…

November 6, 2015 | 09:31 EST

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World Of Warcraft Subs Down To 5.5 Million

After Blizzard Entertainment announced in their quarterly report released in August that the number of active subscribers to their World of Warcraft MMO had dipped to 5.6 million subscribers in the…

November 3, 2015 | 05:04 EST

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World of Warcraft: Legion – Mixed Feelings

World of Warcraft: Legion, the newest World of Warcraft expansion, was announced yesterday at Gamescom 2015. As a fan of the lore and occasional player of the game, I was incredibly excited, even…

August 7, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Blizzard Gamescom 2015 - World of Warcraft Expansion Announcement

For the last briefing of Gamescom 2015, it's a big one; World of Warcraft is getting a new expansion. With a roaring crowd and a big stage, we're told of the steps that this briefing will take. It…

August 6, 2015 | 03:44 EDT

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Blizzard's Mishandling of Warlords of Draenor

When Blizzard announced last year that they wanted to release an expansion to World of Warcraft every year, I didn't really care because it never seemed to be a possibility. They've wanted to do this…

July 6, 2015 | 01:00 EDT

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BlizzCon Opening Ceremonies Part 1: World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm

This year's BlizzCon marks the convention's 8th year operating and its opening ceremonies didn't fail to impress. Beginning the day was President & CEO Mike Morhaime who spoke about World of…

November 7, 2014 | 05:39 EST