World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Concept Art

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm gallery is sporting three more pieces of concept art depicting Deathwing and “corehound security”. These are probably the most wallpaper-worthy selections we’ve seen to date, so if you’re need of some new desktop eye candy,…

Blizzard Entertainment Considering iOS Development

I doubt we’ll be playing Diablo or World of Warcraft on an iPhone or iPad in the near future, but according to this brief interview with Blizzard Entertainment’s Greg Street on Eurogamer, the company is at least interested in porting…

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Coming to China on July 12th

Chinese publisher NetEase has announced that they’re bringing the revitalized addiction that is World of Warcraft: Cataclysm to mainland China in just a few short weeks, on July 12th, 2011. I’m sure this means that World of Warcraft subscriber numbers…

Terrible Ideas From Great Developers

IGN AU’s editor Scott Donaldson penned a relatively short editorial about “near-catastrophic features that have marred otherwise fantastic titles”, with Oblivion’s level scaling, Mass Effect 2’s planet scanning and World of Warcraft’s phasing all used as examples. On Oblivion’s level…

World of Warcraft Patch 4.2: Rage of the Firelands Trailer

Blizzard Entertainment is gearing up to release their ambitious v4.2 “Rage of the Firelands” content patch for World of Warcraft, and to help promote the storyline behind it, they’ve released a new four-minute trailer that showcases plenty of fiery destruction.…

World of Warcraft Concept Art

Blizzard Entertainment’s official World of Warcraft website is sporting four new pieces of concept art that were created very early during the MMORPG’s development.  While still impressive, their art has definitely improved since.

On the Shrinking Player Base of World of Warcraft

The editors at TenTonHammer have penned an editorial titled “Mass Exodus: A Post-Mortem on the Shrinking Playerbase in World of Warcraft”, in which they analyze what they think are the reasons behind the drop in subscribers for Blizzard’s juggernaut MMO.…

Chinese Prisoners Put to Work as Gold Farmers

From the realm of the straight-up bizarre comes this Guardian story of Chinese detainees being put to work as gold farmers in World of Warcraft. But it was the forced online gaming that was the most surreal part of his imprisonment.…