World of Warcraft

Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all ...  

walks in sheepishly and clears throat* Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. We of All Clear have just started out on Wyrmrest Accord (WrA), we are all re-rolling from realms all across Azeroth and have chosen WrA as our ...  

Each week, WoW Insider's Mathew McCurley brings you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs as well as Addon Spotlight, which focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. Everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond -- your addons folder will never be the same. The Addon Spotlight Team and I have been hard at work combing through emails in the Addon Mailbag, doing our best to get answers to as...  

Chinese developer EGLS Technology has released a massively multiplayer online iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch role-playing game called Adventure of Monkey King. The colourful RPG, which doesn't charge a monthly fee to play it, features four distinct classes ...  

Sometimes, you'd like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? It's not all WoW, all the time! Our sister site Massively can provide you with everything you need to know about all of the other MMOs around -- past, present and future. RIFT in China: "Biggest game deal ever" for a Western MMO How big is RIFT? Big enough to attract one of China's heavyweight MMO houses, apparently. Trion has announced a...  

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Lichborne for blood, frost, and unholy death knights. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Let's show the other classes how a hero class gets things done. Let's face it: We had it pretty good in Wrath. Since that expansion was our grand debut, we were everywhere. We had an opening experience where we connected with our origin and found out that our own...  

The board game creator USAOPOLY and the video game developer Blizzard have announced that they are working together in order to create two new games, Monopoly: World of Warcraft and RISK: Starcraft. The two companies are saying that the two titles will ...  

In a new study of 349 couples, Brigham Young University researchers explored the effects of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) on married couples. They concluded that while there are positives to gaming, behaviors ...  

WoW Insider covers the world of player vs ... although this is possibly a little too crazy -- the Dungeon Finder. I was intending to write a guide to PvP leveling, but while carrying out the research, it occurred to me not only how hard it ...  

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. So, Act I of our Cataclysm for Dummies guide went over the basics of Cataclysm -- how it came to be, just who that Deathwing guy is, anyway, and why he's so...  

Here's a MMO-Champion thread in which Ramsesakama sets out to recreate the World of Warcraft realm of Kalimdor in the maker-friendly game/environment Minecraft, in faithful 1:1 scale. Using procedural tools and a lot of skull-sweat, the task is undertaken, with awfully fabulous results. I'm trying to create a replica of Kalimdor in Minecraft, and I [...]  

In the past week, both Activision Blizzard (NAS: ATVI) and Electronic Arts (NAS: ERTS) have reported earnings and beaten analyst estimates. A focal point for both companies is the success of their massively multiplayer online (MMO) games World ...  

Gamespy.comDiablo 3 Launching Between April and June, SWTOR Seemingly Fails to Wound WoWGamespy.comBy Nathan Grayson | Feb 9, 2012 Diablo III is nearly here, and I'm pretty sure Blizzard actually means it this time. During Activision Blizzard's Q4 2011 financial call, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said that the latest entry in the Lord of loot pinatas ...Diablo 3 Arriving Between April And JuneCinema BlendActivision Dates Diablo 3 Release Date at...  

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Encrypted Text for assassination, combat and subtlety rogues. Chase Christian will be your guide to the world of shadows every Wednesday. Feel free to email me with any questions or article suggestions you'd like to see covered here. If you're frequenting any of the rogue community sites, you've seen the question: Should I be using No'Kaled? While assassination and subtlety rogues can blindly equip the...  

This is the last of our Valentine's Day videos, since the big holiday was yesterday. I saved this one for last because it's a little odd. Essentially, Celebrating Valentine's Day is a decent video. I mean, it's not mind-blowingly amazing or anything, but the video had a good idea driving it and the animation is done pretty well. The oddity is the voice acting. All the dialogue is performed by AT&T's Natural Voices. On one hand, that's...