Over the years, Blizzard has made various changes and updates to World of Warcraft. These changes are huge and varied, and as such, the game today is very different from the game from back in the day when it first launched. As such, gamers who are looking forward to playing World of Warcraft Classic have been warned that some features of the upcoming game should not be mistaken as bugs.

Over the past couple of years, Blizzard has acknowledged the popularity of the vanilla version of World of Warcraft, where they have agreed to launch new and separate servers dedicated to the original version of the game. Dubbed World of Warcraft Classic, Blizzard did promise a launch in the summer of 2019, and it looks like the company has delivered.

For those who haven’t been following the World of Warcraft story to date, in the Battle for Azeroth expansion, it basically saw current Horde Warchief Sylvanas Windrunner go a bit crazy with her power, eliminating many of her enemies in brutal manner in the process. Safe to say, not all members of the Horde agree with her methods, leading to the ousting one at least one of her high-ranking generals, […]

Did you know that Blizzard’s MMORPG World of Warcraft is 15 years old? These are the kind of milestones that pretty much all MMORPGs aspire to, and while there have been some controversies with regards to how Blizzard has approached the game and its storyline, it is still a game played by many around the world.

DirectX 12 was launched alongside Windows 10 in 2015 and it would have been a pretty big deal had it been supported on Windows 7 at that time. Four years have passed and a lot has changed since then. However, Microsoft has finally decided to take feedback into account that called on the company to enable DirectX12 Windows 7 support. It has done that but there’s a catch.

Blizzard has an online store in which gamers can buy select World of Warcraft mounts for real-life money. The shop also sells a variety of in-game cosmetics. However it seems that Blizzard has decided to retire some of the mounts and items and pets from that online store, and will be selling them off in a $50 bundle.

As expected when Blizzard released the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth expansion, players were quick to complete the initial round of endgame content that  Blizzard had initially made available. Also as expected, many players had gripes about the initial release of the game which Blizzard planned to fix in an upcoming patch.

Blizzard was primarily known as a company who developed games for the PC. However over the years the company has diversified their offerings where games such as Overwatch and Diablo have expanded to consoles. They have also expanded to mobile where titles such as Hearthstone remains incredibly popular, and where Diablo Immortal will be launching as well.

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft MMORPG was launched after Warcraft 3, and so pretty much all the events of the MMORPG more or less take place after Warcraft 3, which helped set the tone and introduced us to the journey where Arthas, a righteous paladin and through a series of actions and decisions, ended up being the Lich King.

Whenever Blizzard releases a new World of Warcraft expansion, the content within that expansion is typically staggered. This means that for the most part, the core of the expansion will be released such as all the new quests, zones, races, classes, and so on, but in terms of end-game content like raids, those are usually released in phases.

Back in 2017 during BlizzCon 2017, the company officially announced that they will be launching servers dedicated to hosting the vanilla version of World of Warcraft, also known as World of Warcraft Classic. However Blizzard did caution that the game could take a while to be launched, and it looks like players will still need to wait a bit.

Blizzard has been steadily releasing various cinematics for World of Warcraft, in which it pieces together parts of the ongoing story. For those who are curious and want to see where this story leads, Blizzard has since released a new cinematic trailer dubbed “Lost Honor” that features Varok Saurfang and King Anduin Wrynn.

Last year there was a bit of a fuss kicked up over World of Warcraft, where a group of players had decided that they had enough of modern World of Warcraft and wanted to go back to the classics, and thus created their own World of Warcraft server. This project got shut down, understandably, although Blizzard did make up for it by announcing that they will be working on a […]

Ahead of the release of the Battle for Azeroth expansion, Blizzard put out a couple of “Warbringers” animated shorts that told additional stories about some of the characters from World of Warcraft, namely Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner, both of whom play key roles in the current expansion and storyline.