World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft: The Story So Far, Part One

In preparation for the December 7th release of Cataclysm, Blizzard Entertainment has begun a series of new “The Story So Far” articles over at the expansion pack’s official website. Part one briefly covers the storyline up to the shattering of…

World of Warcraft Retrospective

In celebration of the game’s sixth anniversary and impending launch of Cataclysm, Ten Ton Hammer has put together a two-page retrospective for the insanely popular fantasy MMORPG. The article covers the game’s history from the perspective of several different editors,…

World of Warcraft Patch 4.0.3a Shatters Azeroth

Blizzard launched its latest patch without much fanfare, but players soon learned it brings about some major changes, running up to Cataclysm by shattering open the world, and adding different bits of content. The Cataclysm blog explains and offers patch notes.…

World of Warcraft and Expansions For Cheap

Blizzard Entertainment has taken advantage of the holiday season to dramatically reduce the prices on the World of Warcraft titles in their online store. As such, you can pick up the base game for $5, The Burning Crusade for $5,…

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Previews

Blizzard’s Cataclysm expansion pack is only a couple of weeks away now, so if you’d like to brush up on everything the World of Warcraft addon has to offer, we have a few more previews to point out. HotHardware: Cataclysm…

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Global Launch Events Planned

Blizzard Entertainment fired over a press release this morning announcing plans to host several worldwide World of Warcraft: Cataclysm launch events at midnight on December 6th. Members of the development team will even be on hand at each launch event…

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Previews

In addition to overviews of Cataclysm’s Grim Batol zone and three new raid instances on Ten Ton Hammer, there’s a full-on preview of the expansion pack at Strategy Informer. From the final article: On the way I noticed a number…

Building Battle.net

Gamasutra managed to corner Blizzard Entertainment’s Greg Canessa for an interesting interview about the challenges involved with building the modern Battle.net, why the company needs their own online platform, what sort of functionality they might add to it in the…

World of Warcraft Digital Download Q&A

We received word earlier on the World of Warcraft expansion excluding cinematics, but now Blizzard has sent out a Q&A and one of the first things they address is the cinematics, which informs us all WoW cinematics are being released…