World of Warcraft

The Last Decade in Gaming: A Developer Roundtable

IGN managed to convince a number of developers to participate in a new four-question roundtable discussion about video gaming’s previous decade. Among the participants you’ll find World of Warcraft’s J. Allen Brack and Borderlands’ Randy Pitchford: What was the best system of…

World of Warcraft in 2009 Retrospective

Ten Ton Hammer has taken a retrospective look at the various bits of news that World of Warcraft generated during 2009. Let’s go all the way back to January: January started off with patch 3.0.8 which introduced a ton of…

Gamasutra’s Top 12 Games of the Decade

Gamasutra has cranked out a list of the top twelve video games of this decade, as voted upon by various industry professionals.  Mass Effect (#9), Deus Ex (#2), and World of Warcraft (#1) all made the cut: Ion Storm’s Deus…

Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters

“The Psychology of Video Games” blog has published a short article on the science behind the euphoria we experience whenever we loot a crazy nice item within a role-playing game. The article is primarily focused on World of Warcraft, though…

World of Warcraft Official Magazine Issue #1 Preview

There’s a forty-page preview of the first issue of the Official World of Warcraft Magazine online, complete with some very cool artwork and several articles on the franchise’s 15-year anniversary, tanking, dual wielding, healing, and more.

Big Download’s Best PC Games of the Decade

With only a couple of weeks to go until we start a new decade, Big Download thought they’d put together a list of what they feel are the twenty-six finest PC games released over the last ten years. Included among them are…

Warcraft 15-Year Anniversary Interview

Gamasutra caught up with Blizzard’s Samwise Didier and J. Allen Brack for a lengthy conversation about the early days of the Warcraft franchise, World of Warcraft’s crazy success, their commitment to PC gaming, and much more. How invested do you…

Rogue Rage

Massively has posted a two-page article that points out the flaws and unrealized potential of rogue classes in MMORPGs, particularly in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Traps are another staple of “roleplaying dungeoneering” that are sorely missed from our traditional MMO…

World of Warcraft Patch 3.3 Editorials

After checking out Blizzard’s ambitious Fall of the Lich King patch for World of Warcraft firsthand, the editors at MMORPG.com and Game Stooge have provided us with a couple of new overviews. From MMORPG.com: The new instance content in patch…

BlizzCast Episode 12

Blizzard Entertainment has released a twelfth BlizzCast episode, which you’ll find is broken into two sections that are entirely devoted to World of Warcraft’s 5-year anniversary and the 15-year anniversary of the entire Warcraft franchise. Karune: : At this time…