World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft Q&A

The results of another Twitter-based developer Q&A is up on the official World of Warcraft forums, which means that there’s a whole batch of new answers available for our scrutiny. A couple of interesting nuggets: Q. What have you learned from…

BlizzCast Episode 13

Blizzard Entertainment has released a thirteenth BlizzCast episode, and while the primary topic is the freshly launched StarCraft II beta, there’s also a World of Warcraft/Diablo III Q&A toward the end. Zarhym: Ok so is the respec system in Diablo III…

World of Warcraft Getting Another Raid Dungeon

Blizzard intends to add a new Ruby Sanctum raid in the forthcoming v3.3.5 patch for World of Warcraft, and rather than have testers confused over what they’ve stumbled upon, the team has quickly profiled the dungeon over on the official…

Battle.net Interview

IGN is hosting a five-minute video interview with Blizzard’s Greg Canessa that focuses entirely on what we should expect from their Battle.net relaunch later this year. During the interview, Greg discusses the three key design goals that they have for…

World of Warcraft: Five Years In

World of Warcraft continues to enjoy an absurd amount of success even after its fifth anniversary, so the folks at IncGamers have put together a two-page editorial that analyzes what the MMORPG and its expansion packs have done right over…

World of Warcraft’s Growth Has Stalled, For Now

After listening in on Activision-Blizzard’s earnings call this evening, VG247 reports that World of Warcraft’s userbase is at 11.5 million subscribers – the same number quoted in a press release issued in December of 2008. But things might change with…

World of Warcraft Account Signups Suspended in China

Reuters is reporting that World of Warcraft continues to run into problems with the Chinese government, as game operator NetEase has been forced to suspend any new registrations for the MMORPG due to “gross violations” of the country’s online game…

World of Warcraft Interviews

In addition to an in-house “Rise and Fall of the Lich King” Q&A on the official World of Warcraft website, the guys at GamesRadar have published an interview with Blizzard’s Chris Metzen on the 15-year history of the Warcraft franchise.…

World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.2 Released

The newest patch for Blizzard’s World of Warcraft MMO is now live for download on their servers. View the patch notes on the official forum. Amongst other things, the patch adds a cinematic that plays in the game after defeating…

World of Warcraft Retrospective

A new four-page World of Warcraft retrospective feature has surfaced on GamesIndustry.biz, during which Blizzard’s Paul Sams and Rob Pardo talk about the popular MMO’s early days, beta testing period, post-release success, and more. However, in order to take advantage…