Tag: World of Warcraft

WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: ‘We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field’

WoW developers step in…

Blizzard is planning on shaking things up—alright, ‘shaking things up’ might be an understatement. For twenty-odd years now, World…
After a year and a half of updates, WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery is finally winding down in favor of something new: ‘We need to get in the proverbial kitchen and cook’

After a year and…

Season of Discovery is an odd one. It’s an offshoot of WoW Classic—a recreation of World of Warcraft circa…
The FTC has dropped its lawsuit against Microsoft following the Activision Blizzard acquisition, letting the tech giant loose

The FTC has dropped…

The FTC has officially dropped its legal case against Microsoft following the American tech giant’s aquisition of Activision Blizzard…
World of Warcraft game director details which combat add-ons are safe and which will be eliminated in the coming purge

World of Warcraft game…

World of Warcraft senior game director Ion Hazzikostas recently warned players that add-ons and mods that predict or help…
WoW dev was surprised that players ‘like being jumped’ by the upcoming Prey system—even on its hardest difficulty, where ‘going AFK might get you killed’

WoW dev was surprised…

One of the features of World of Warcraft: Midnight I’m the most excited for is Prey. In case you’re…
World of Warcraft game director on the woeful patch 11.1

World of Warcraft game…

World of Warcraft’s latest patch was riddled with bugs and time-gated content, frustrating players and causing some pundits to…
WoW’s classes were pruned for Midnight because many were ‘built in a world’ where its devs assumed they’d be using addons

WoW’s classes were pruned…

World of Warcraft recently embarked on the massive undertaking of redesigning all of its many specialisations to work without…
‘It was eye-opening’: How a WoW documentary inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK’s Liam Quinn to raise money and build community in the haven of videogames

‘It was eye-opening’: How…

I had the pleasure of attending a Netflix event around the WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin last…
Blizzard isn’t going to let World of Warcraft players suffer from outdated character customization for long, but it’s going to take some time to fix

Blizzard isn’t going to…

One thing is immediately noticeable when you create a character in World of Warcraft as one of its newest…
Blizzard is making a huge change to WoW: combat add-ons will be eliminated, with new features coming to replace them

Blizzard is making a…

World of Warcraft senior game director Ion Hazzikostas dropped a bomb in a Blizzard broadcast today, one that many…