Blizzard developers have confirmed raid bosses for the highly anticipated World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor. Similar to the release of Mists of Pandaria, raids will remain closed until the second week of release, allowing players to enjoy the grind to level 100 – at least, enjoy it as much as possible. Unlike
Read More…
A Twitch stream is currently airing live a Pokemon Red emulator. The black-and-gray beloved gameboy game has more to it than meets the eye – it’s a social experiment. Pokemon on Twitch has been rigged up with an IRC bot that translates buttons said into the stream’s chat and converts it to keypresses in
Read More…
During Blizzard’s Q4 2013 earnings meeting, it was announced World of Warcraft subscriptions have increased by 200k. The 2013 subscription year looked to be bleak for World of Warcraft subscriptions; Q1 2013 saw the peak at 8.3 million, and by Q2 2013 the subscriptions dipped to 7.7 million. World of Warcraft subscriptions continued to
Read More…
The announcement of Warlords of Draenor came with mixed emotions; an initial spurt of excitement that eventually lingered away to annoyance. At least for raid leaders of dedicated 10-man cores, such as myself. Blizzard announced a new raiding difficulty, mythic, that will be for dedicated 20-man raids, while heroic and regular difficulties will follow
Read More…
World of Warcraft player “Zuulzilla” is hosting an in-game charity event to raise funds for Child’s Play, a charity organization geared towards improving the lives of children in hospitals by providing games and toys. The in-game charity, held February 7th at 8pm EST, will be conducted primarily through Zuulzilla’s personal stream, where viewers
Read More…
Blizzard’s World of Warcraft developers have issued a writing challenge to fans to participate in. It’s necessarily a contest; besides glorified bragging rights, no prizes are awarded to writers. The challenge was announced by Blizzard’s community manager, Nethaera, on the World of Warcraft forum earlier today. Blizzard’s writing challenge encourages players to expand their creative
Read More…
Confirmed by a World of Warcraft blue post from Lore, it’s unlikely battleground queues will become same-faction. Woes over the long battleground queues has become a hot topic as of late, with some players making the suggestion to have the battlegrounds become same faction. That would mean orcs would take arms against their troll
Read More…