World of Warcraft

BlizzCon Skipping a Year Due to a “Jam-packed Schedule”

We unfortunately won’t have a pile of new BlizzCon interviews and previews coming our way later this year, as Blizzard has just announced that between the 2012 Battle.net World Championship and the release of Diablo III, World of Warcraft: Mists…

World of Warcraft Interview

There’s a new interview with World of Warcraft’s Dave Kosak on VideoGamer, during which the lead quest designer addresses questions about the game’s recent v4.3 patch, how subscriber numbers have dwindled since Cataclysm, the content they’ll be releasing prior to…

World of Warcraft Price Cut in Europe

To help ring in the new year, Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the price of World of Warcraft and its three expansion packs has been reduced in Europe by a considerable margin. Hopefully the discounts get passed down to other…

Can I Craft That For You?

For a new blog entry on Gamasutra, our own Eric Schwarz provides an analysis of the crafting systems that have been made available to us in both single-player and multiplayer RPGs, including those found in World of Warcraft, Risen, Sequence,…

Blizzard Entertainment Holiday Card Gallery

Blizzard Entertainment is hosting a new holiday card gallery featuring many of the Diablo-, StarCraft-, and Warcraft-themed art pieces they’ve created over the years, including a brand new Diablo III piece featuring the Witch Doctor. You know, the kind of…

Star Wars: The Old Republic vs. World of Warcraft

There’s likely going to be something of a showdown between Star Wars: The Old Republic and World of Warcraft over the coming weeks, and that’s the subscriber-seeking confrontation that has spawned this two-page editorial on The New York Times. Surprisingly,…

World of Warcraft: Hour of Twilight Impressions

IGN has cranked out some impressions of “Hour of Twilight”, the new v4.3 update for Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. In short, it’s a favorable piece, and even suggests that the game is now worthy of a reactivation: The first lesson…

Seven Years of World of Warcraft

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of the standard-setting MMO from Blizzard, Gamasutra has put together a handy timeline of the history of World of Warcraft, while also quickly reminding us just how much the title defied expectations at release and…