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WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand

Only took a couple of decades.

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WoW Hardcore streamer receives $7k donation on one condition: he has to delete everything he owns

Back to square one

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MMOs had a great year in 2024, with the genre the liveliest it's been in years

Big updates, great expansions, and even some new entries.

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World of Warcraft director says last year's Hardcore release was a better version of classic WoW than WoW Classic was

"It wasn't just being on that journey alone, it was like this group of players versus the world"

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WoW's newest raid will build on 20 years of large-group encounters, with new twists—and perhaps less help from mods

Game director Ion Hazzikostas on what to expect in Liberation of Undermine.

PC Gamer

WoW veteran says the MMO's devs had to make "ten times the amount of quests" as originally planned to sate playtesters, and now the game has 38,000 of them

"The answer, of course, was to simply add more."

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World of Warcraft devs used to joke about the MMO making $1 million per month - just months before it smashed through $15 million in monthly revenue

"We had a good laugh about that one, but we all kind of thought maybe it could do that for real."

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World of Warcraft got its iconic MMO quest markers thanks to Metal Gear Solid

20 years later, WoW is still going strong

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20 years later, World of Warcraft is still on top

Achievement unlocked: 20 years of MMO domination

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Despite being the frontrunner, unlucky WoW Classic grinder loses the race to max level on the MMO's new Hardcore servers after disconnecting 6 levels before the finish line

Ouch

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'I can show this film to my parents, and they will understand better': Director of touching WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin reflects on the importance of online communities as sanctuaries

"I've read messages from men that say ‘I haven't cried since '99, and this is the first time I cried since then.'"

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20 Years Ago, 'World of Warcraft' Threw Everything But the Kitchen Sink At Us

It's been 20 years since 'World of Warcraft' changed the way people play together online, and Blizzard isn't close to running out of steam.

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World of Warcraft: The War Within still hasn't figured out Delves, its mini dungeons desperate for an identity

Warcraft's latest solo-dungeon experiment is a muddled mess.

PC Gamer

After having to buff event rewards 4 times in a year, WoW director Ion Hazzikostas admits there's 'a pattern' and that 'we may tend to err on the conservative side'

You can always buff later.

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After 4 World of Warcraft events launched with bad loot this year alone, Blizzard admits that it can "start to seem like a pattern"

"We hear the feedback from the community loud and clear."

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After 20 years of WoW updates, will Blizzard ever need to wipe the slate clean? Maybe "at some long, distant point," but the MMO has already been totally "rebuilt"

"We're constantly tearing out some old foundational system and replacing it"

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Former The Elder Scrolls Online lead says Bethesda was such an amazing partner that it was harder to make a WoW-free MMO than it was to make a good Elder Scrolls MMO

"One of the things we had to do was break out of the WoW mold"

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World of Warcraft might not have invented the wheel, but it certainly made it popular—and 20 years on, the MMO titan has fundamentally changed gaming's DNA

Love it or hate it, it's probably what we deserve.

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Avowed will be available on Battle.net, which means you can buy it for about 1.4M gold in WoW if you want to

Grind one RPG to play another.

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After 'regrets and lessons learned,' and 2 months of tuning, Blizzard is 'happy' with Delves as WoW's newest endgame destination

And your mouthy buddy Brann Bronzebeard will learn a few new tricks.

PC Gamer

Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it

"We want our games playable across as many screens as possible."

Windows Central

"The goal is never to see a degradation in our story quality." World of Warcraft turns 20: Discussing the future with Blizzard on Mythic+ progression, class balance, Undermine, and the decades-awaited Player Housing feature

World of Warcraft turned 20 this year, as Warcraft itself turns 30. We spoke to Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas and Assistant Lead Quest Designer Mark Colada on what the future holds.

PC Gamer

'It's about time!': Hearthstone is getting a StarCraft crossover set starring Raynor, Kerrigan and Artanis

The Heroes of StarCraft mini-set will arrive in January, and Blizzard has also teased all three of next year's full expansions.

PC Gamer

Mists of Pandaria Classic is coming summer 2025

Blizzard announced the natural next step for WoW Classic during the Warcraft 30th anniversary stream.

PC Gamer

Player housing is coming to World of Warcraft after 20 years, though you'll have to wait until the next expansion: 'It's a tremendously large undertaking'

Our house, in the middle of Warcraft.

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