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Experts Taught Me How To Score A Boyfriend In World of Warcraft
14.2.2023
Sex in ancient caves, gods that turn the women they desire into frost-white cows—civilization has been making the most uncanny situations horny since the beginning, and in our digital age, we’ve extended that talent to sliding into DMs, Tinder, and video game romance. But while messaging...
'Huge signal and validation' — Top Activision exec to take Yuga Labs' helm
20.12.2022
Kieran Warwick, co-founder of blockchain role-playing game Illuvium believes Yuga Labs latest hire will be a boon for GameFi
Blizzard Legend Chris Metzen Returns To Company
16.12.2022
Blizzard in 2022 is a vastly different company to the one so many became fans of in the 1990s and 2000s, partly because it is now owned by Activision, but mostly because that was a long time ago and most of the people who made the games you love have left!Read more
Someone Spent Six Years Remastering An Unreleased Warcraft Game
5.8.2022
Years ago, a never-officially-released Warcraft point-and-click adventure game developed by Blizzard in the late ‘90s was leaked online. While the game was completely playable back then, its cutscenes were low-quality, highly compressed, not perfectly synced to the audio, and a few were even just...
Hearthstone Is Randomly Awarding Some Players A Ton Of Free Packs
8.7.2022
It’s been a hot minute since I traded rungs in the middle of the Hearthstone seasonal ranked ladder. But some players who recently returned to Blizzard’s take on Magic: The Gathering were greeted with a generous surprise: dozens of free card packs. Before you go getting your hopes up, however,...
Fantasy Battle Royale Spellbreak Shutting Down, Studio Absorbed By Blizzard
29.6.2022
Spellbreak, the magic-based battle royale, is spellbroken, shutting down early next year, developer Proletariat announced in a blog post. Also, the whole studio is getting absorbed by Blizzard, the result of a recent acquisition intended to beef up development on World of Warcraft.Read more
Diablo Immortal Slammed On Metacritic, Now Holds Lowest User Score Ever
13.6.2022
Review aggregation sites are hardly the arbiter of a game’s quality, particularly when it comes to user reviews, and particularly in the era of review-bombing. Still, some data points are unignorable: As noted by VGC, Blizzard’s recent Diablo Immortal now holds claim to the lowest user score...
World Of Warcraft Streamer Allegedly Harassed Off Of Twitch By Ex-Cop
26.5.2022
A 29-year-old former airport cop, Evan Baltierra, was arrested this week and charged in federal court with allegedly harassing a World of Warcraft streamer off of Twitch. The two met in person at BlizzCon 2019, according to an accompanying affidavit, but when the streamer declined to be...
Lawsuit: Blizzard Lets Minors ‘Gamble’ On ‘Worthless’ Hearthstone Card Packs
19.5.2022
Blizzard is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit over card packs sold to minors in Hearthstone, its popular World of Warcraft-themed trading card game. A parent in Arizona claims his child purchased hundreds of dollars worth of the cards without realizing how rare it is to get good cards out...
New World Of Warcraft Expansion Lets You Fly Dragons
19.4.2022
Blizzard pulled back the curtain on the next chapter in World of Warcraft in a developer livestream Tuesday, and it’s all about dragons. The appropriately titled Dragonflight expansion will unleash players upon the Dragon Isles and let them roll as a new playable dragon race called the Dracthyr....
Former Xbox Boss Remembers Microsoft Trying To Buy Blizzard, Westwood Back In The Day
19.4.2022
It’s 2022 and Microsoft is in the process of tying up a deal to purchase Blizzard. This isn’t the first time the computing giant has tried to buy the company, though; according to Ed Fries, who led development of the first Xbox console, it’s actually the third.Read more
Get To Know The World Of Warcraft-Playing, Twitch-Streaming Grandma Who Just Turned 80
1.4.2022
WowGrandma78, the elderly streamer who’s been broadcasting on the platform since January 2020, celebrated her 80th birthday last month. To honor her eight decades around the sun, WowGrandma78 is hosting a multi-day sub-athon on Twitch, which entered day 15 as of this writing. It’s unclear whether...
World of Warcraft Streamer Has Been Celebrating Her 80th Birthday On Twitch For 12 Days (And Counting)
30.3.2022
Twitch can often be a cesspit of awfulness. If it’s not one streamer getting swatted or another streamer getting accused of misogyny, then it’s potential litigation between big-name broadcasters (that ultimately fizzled into nothing). But there is some good on the platform, too. One such example...
Jamie Lee Curtis Will Officiate Her Daughter’s Wedding In World of Warcraft Cosplay
24.3.2022
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jamie Lee Curtis announced that, not only will she officiate her youngest daughter’s wedding in the actress’s backyard, but she will do so while wearing World of Warcraft cosplay. Read more
Horde & Alliance Players Will Soon Be Able To Raid Together In World Of Warcraft
31.1.2022
Since 2004, World of Warcraft players have been asked to pick a faction and run with it. If you were Horde and your best friend was Alliance, your options for doing stuff in-game were practically zero, which made for a thematically strong experience, but also one that could kinda suck if family...
Vitalik Buterin suggests making NFTs 'soulbound' like World of Warcraft items
27.1.2022
NFTs are known for their transferability and commercial viability, but there are also downsides to those features, according to Buterin
World Of Warcraft Turmoil Around Sudden Appearance Of People Of Color Is Surprisingly Complex
18.12.2021
An unofficial World of Warcraft Discord server has been lit ablaze in recent days. Right now, Twitter is full of screenshots showing people decrying Blizzard adding people of color to the MMORPG, with one particular comment complaining about how there are “too many Black humans in Stormwind.” This...
Henry Cavill Gently Corrects TV Host: It's Warhammer, Not Warcraft
7.12.2021
This is a conversation that I’m sure has played out countless times across kitchens and living rooms around the world as children, friends and partners patiently try and explain the difference between a video game universe and a tabletop wargaming universe. I just don’t know if it’s ever been done...
Blizzard Forms World Of Warcraft Community Council To Solicit Player Feedback
2.11.2021
Blizzard announced yesterday that it will be forming a new player organization called the WoW Community Council. It’s aiming to help the MMORPG’s developers get more detailed feedback on all aspects of the game, from players of different backgrounds and playstyles. The move comes as the game...
World Of Warcraft’s Latest Mount Is A Giant Kitty Cat
28.10.2021
I don’t know, folks. Between trying to keep up with Amazon’s New World and the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker expansion, I just don’t think I have time for World of Warcraft any more. Wait, I can ride a giant kitten with tufted ears that chases its tail? You son of a bitch, I’m in.Read more