World of Warcraft was a game that had seemingly lost its place. In the eyes of players, like me, who had put years into the MMORPG – and especially those who had cut their teeth during the “vanilla” years – WoW was washed up. The Warlords of Draenor expansion was generally accepted as a vastly inferior product. Interest in the MMO dwindled, and players fled like birds from gunfire. World of Warcr...[Read More]
Developer: Blizzard Publisher: Blizzard Platform Reviewed: PC Release Date: August 30, 2016 Acquired via: Purchase via Battle.net World of Warcraft was a game that had seemingly lost its place. In the eyes of players, like me, who had put years into the MMORPG – and especially those who had cut their teeth during the “vanilla” years – WoW was washed up. The Warlords of Draenor expansion was gener...[Read More]
I would think that after eight years of playing World of Warcraft, I wouldn’t be excited enough about a new expansion to stay up for launch. I stayed up for the last three, and the last – for Warlords of Draenor – was an unmitigated disaster. Still, I felt anxious to begin questing in World of Warcraft Legion. The three weeks prior to Launch Day were spent getting my main character, an Arms Warrio...[Read More]
Blizzard Entertainment announced that is it working with Facebook to implement Facebook’s Live API into its current list of games. Once implemented, players will be able to use their Facebook login to access Blizzard games on PC, including Overwatch, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft 2, and Diablo III. While the immediate benefit of this partnership will be an easy way...[Read More]
The latest trailer for Blizzard’s Warcraft movie isn’t too exciting in my opinion, but I stay hopefully optimistic. In the meantime, I love looking at projects like this, a shot-for-shot redo of the movie trailer using the World of Warcraft graphics engine. Seeing this, I get the sudden urge to renew my subscription to the game.