World of Warcraft

Cataclysm Patches Done: Mist of Pandaria Up Next

Posted on Jan 17, 2012

In an interview with VideoGamer.com, Dave Kosak, the lead quest designer for World of Warcraft, stated that patch 4.3 would be the last major update in relation to Cataclysm before the Mists of Pandaria expansion. 4.3 is definitely the climax of Cataclysm so there’s no more Cataclysm content. Traditionally we’ve had a grace period where we patch [...]

MMORaid.com WoW: Cataclysm Giveaway

Posted on Jan 02, 2012

We are teaming up with our sister site MMORaid to offer readers a chance at a free copy of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. We actually meant to run this giveaway a while ago, but got sidetracked and while doing a little end of the year cleaning, I came across the Cataclysm box still sitting their unwrapped. So [...]

World of Warcraft Goes on Sale

Posted on Dec 07, 2011

Blizzard today announced their holiday prices for World of Warcraft with prices starting at five bucks. Players can find the Battle Chest, expansions and some in-game items on sale for big discounts. Below is the full list of sale items. WoW: Battle Chest for $5 (reg. $19.99) Cataclysm for $20 (reg. $39.99) Wrath of the Lich King for $10 (reg. $39.99) [...]

World of Warcraft Patch 4.3: Hour of Twilight Trailer + Patch Notes

Posted on Nov 29, 2011

The latest World of Warcraft patch is upon us and today Blizzard released the official trailer for Patch 4.3: Hour of Twilight. WoW patch 4.3 introduces a new raid called Dragon Soul, three new dungeons to explore and continues the epic storyline in the world of Azeroth.  The patch also brings in a new tier or armor [...]

Chuck Norris World of Warcraft Commercial

Posted on Nov 21, 2011

Over the weekend during the Bears-Charges NFL game, a new World of Warcraft commercial was aired featuring the legend himself, Chuck Norris, who is know for curing all disease with his tears amongst other things. The ad restarts the WoW campaign that Mr. T and William Shattered were in previously, this time with Chuck showing up as [...]

Is The Old Republic a WoW killer? Is the wolf finally coming?

Posted on Nov 21, 2011

With the hype train for The Old Republic picking up speed, many people are asking if this is going to be the MMO that will finally topple World of Warcraft from its throne, where it has been comfortably sitting for 7 years. So many MMO’s have been declared to be “WoW killers” over the years, from Warhammer Online, Age [...]

World of Warcraft Loses 800k Subscribers in Q3

Posted on Nov 09, 2011

The decline of World of Warcraft continues as yesterday, during Activision Blizzard’s investor call, it was announced that WoW has a total of 10.3 million players, down from 11.1 from August, which is a 800k total net lose. This means that for the year, WoW is down 1.7 million subscribers total when it lost 600k in the [...]

Killer Confesses to Crime in World of Warcraft Chat

Posted on Nov 05, 2011

MSNBC reported yesterday that one of the two teenager killers that brutally raped and murdered a highschool girl in 2010, confessed to the crime in a World of Warcraft chat to his in-game girlfriend. The teenage killer meet his online girlfriend in-game and confessed to the crime, linking via MSN chat to the local news articles. When [...]

WoW:Mists of Pandaria Developer Q&A Rundown

Posted on Oct 28, 2011

Last night Blizzard held an open developer Q&A session for Mists of Pandaria, allowing World of Warcraft players to ask all the questions they’ve been dying to know about. Questions ranged from talent trees to mounts to PvP, raids, Glyphs, the new pet system and of course the Pandaren. Below is the full rundown of all the questions [...]

Mists of Pandaria Developer Q&A Tomorrow

Posted on Oct 26, 2011

Tomorrow Blizzard will be hosting a one hour long developer Q&A with Lead Content Designer Cory “Mumper” Stockton and Lead Systems Designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street. The session will begin at 5:00pm PST and will be focused completely on the new World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria. The QA sessions will be hosted over CoverItLive, so if [...]