World of Warcraft

By Alexander Sliwinski Blizzard has been awarded $6 million in damages from its suit against "bot" maker MDY Industries, the same suit it won back in July. MDY makes the World of Warcraft Glider software, allowing players to automate their avatars while they're AFK. The BBC reports that the Glider program cost $2...

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By Ross Miller Despite these stock drops, analysts speaking to Gamasutra remain optimistic, with Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter expecting none of the companies to be affected by the lending crisis. Lazard Capital Markets' Colin Sebastian predicts a "cocooning" effect where people flock to game...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Mac, PC, Online, Strategy, Competitive GamingJoystiq: Earlier this week, Blizzard released a patch for Warcraft 3, known to some of you as "the game before World of Warcraft" and the rest as "the client for playing Defense of the Ancients." Patch 1.22a provides balance chang...

By Ross Miller uery A guided tour of World of Warcraft patch 2.4.3 A week with Spore Creatures: Conclusion DS Fanboy Lite: June 14 - June 20 eyes and ears-on: Guitar Hero: World Tour Podcast 054 - World exclusive edition Metareview -- Alone in the Dark (Euro edition)

By Ross Miller Filed under: Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, MMO, GalleriesJoystiq: The latest World of Warcraft patch (2.4.3) has made it to the public test realm (PTR) and our friends at WoW Insider have already traveled far and wide in this strange, but oddly familiar territory. Check out their guided, visual to...

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By Ross Miller Filed under: Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, MMOJoystiq: Blizzard has released the patch notes for World of Warcraft's upcoming patch 2.4.3. Our friends at WoW Insider are sifting through the notes right now, which you can find here, and pulling out the highlights. Key changes include mounts at leve...

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By Ross Miller Rumors & Speculation Rumor: Ironside no longer voicing Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher Rumor: Turbine to bring Dungeons & Dragons Online to consoles...maybe 360-esque achievements could head to World of Warcraft Forbes details Take-Two's EA alternative: Ubisoft

By Ross Miller Filed under: PC, Adventure, Online, RPGs, MMOJoystiq: Tomorrow marks the release of Funcom's Age of Conan for PC, an MMO with enough pre-release hype to actually create a blip on the map so long dominated by World of Warcraft. In case you need a introduction to the M-rated online adventure...

By Griffin McElroy Filed under: PC, MMOJoystiq: With the popularity of Shatner and Mr. Tureaud's commercials for World of Warcraft, Blizzard has brought it's celebrity advertising game to a global scale. In a TV spot for France, Jean Claude Van Damme talks about his mage, and, though our... Read more

By Elizabeth Harper Filed under: PC, MMO Haven't made it into Azeroth this week? Well, never fear, because Joystiq's own WoW Insider is here to help you get up to date on all of the latest in World of Warcraft news. So without further ado, here's everything from the last seven days from Stormwind to Silvermoon:

By Elizabeth Harper Though patch 2.3 is still on the test realms, apparently patch 2.4 is right around the corner.The latest info on guild banks As proof that World of Warcraft is a pop culture phenomenon, I offer this case on Judge Judy.How I Met Your Draenei

By Elizabeth Harper Funcom was at this year's Dragon*Con in force with demos of their upcoming MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. While the game isn't slated for release until March 2008 (we hope), the game Funcom showed us looked pretty slick -- though they're still tight-lipped on the feat system (that...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, MMO, BusinessA Rogue character in World of Warcraft with arguably the best gear in the game right now has been sold for 7,000 Euro (approximately US $9,700). The avatar had both Legendary swords dropped by raid boss Illidan Stormrage, as well a...

By Kevin Kelly Filed under: Culture, PC, Action, Adventure, Online, RPGs, MMOJoystiq: With the now announced and confirmed World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion comes a new Hero Class character, the Death Knight. But what do we know about it? The short answer is "not very much." The longer a...

By Alexander Sliwinski The German (we truly do love using this word) Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) ratings board, their equivalent of the ESRB, has rated a game called "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (GC-Demo)" for ages 12 and up. The rating was given on July 30, 2007 and the title of the...

By Alexander Sliwinski Before we proceed, please take this with a brick of salt -- ready? Let's go. WoW Insider received information from an anonymous tipster that the Video Games Live orchestra will be performing three pieces called "Northrend 1, 2,and 3" at next week's BlizzCon. WoW Insider dug deeper and foun...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, Online, RPGs, MMO, BusinessAfter Blizzard phoned-in their E3 appearance, they've hit another milestone before they wreak chaos with BlizzCon and other planned announcements -- they've got 9 million World of Warcraft addicts. Yes, Blizzard is happy to announce...

By Zack Stern Filed under: Culture, Hacks, Mac, PC, RPGs, Video, MMO, MachinimaMetal band, Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain rocks rawks its World of Warcraft song, I am Murloc in today's video pick. if the video gets you pumped for WoW, there's a good chance you're already booked for BlizzCon, where the...

By Justin McElroy It's not World of Warcraft, it's not Starcraft II, but it is, according to Blizzard, totally awesome, and it's in super-secret development by a super-secret sect of the company called Team 3. It was during a conversation about workforce with Gamasutra when Frank Pearce, senior vice pres...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: PC, Strategy, MMO Like a kid being dragged to church, it feels like Blizzard just didn't want to be at this year's E3. With BlizzCon right around the corner and a slew of announcements and demos planned, Blizzard just seems to have showed up out of obligation.

By Alexander Sliwinski Looks like Blizzard's latest World of Warcraft patch which had a spam filtering component to fight gold sellers is working since gold farmers are now resorting to sacrificial gnome death for advertising. The gold farmers are forced to stick to the creative since their free advertising p...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, BusinessLast week, World of Warcraft database site Wowhead sold for reportedly a whopping US$1 million to Affinity Media. Our sister site WoW Insider takes a look back on the deal and its implications to the community.

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, Strategy, MMOAnother great reason to hit up BlizzCon August 3 and 4 at the Anaheim Convention Center: all attendees will receive, in addition to other swag, a beta key for "an upcoming Blizzard game."

By John Bardinelli Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart has some strong words for single-player RPG developers. With the rise of MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft and Everquest, old-style role playing games need to re-think their strategy or face extinction. "It used to be fine to make an RPG that wa...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Mac, PC, Online, MMO Blizzard Entertainment teamed up with the Make-A-Wish foundation to give 10-year-old Ezra Chatterton, who suffers from a brain tumor, the ultimate World of Warcraft experience imaginable.

By Alexander Sliwinski Sister-site WoW Insider really has all the details on patch 2.1 for World of Warcraft. The newest patch opens up the Black Temple, along with a slew of other content, that tells the story of ... oh, who are we kidding? Do people even read the quests anymore? By level 60 isn't it just standard ops to f...

By John Bardinelli Colony Studios, a new development studio comprised of former World of Warcraft and EverQuest staff, recently announced a new space-themed MMOG in the works. Instead of throwing yet another MMOG on the market, Colony is centering the game around a dynamic, living world that will allow pl...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: PC, RPGs, MMOThis Saturday, UK newspaper The Times will offer readers a disc with a 14-day trial of World of Warcraft. The edition will also include an eight-page guide to the game. Like a good drug dealer, Blizzard knows that you just have to give a customer that first hit of WoW t...

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Culture, Action, PoliticsVariety has a great article up that calls out some movie critics for derisively comparing the movie version of 300 to a video game. While the movie does rely on computer graphics and special effects, as do many video games, the article correctly poin...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: PC, RPGs, MMO, BusinessWell, this explains why Blizzard kept stalling on answering our distribution questions. Blizzard began very quietly offering World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade through digital distribution this week.

By Kyle Orland Having a working Linux box is a point of pride for computer hackers everywhere, but when it comes to gaming on a computer, freeware Linux offerings like Tux Racer don't really hold up to Windows favorites like World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2. A new version of Codeweavers' CrossOver Linux...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs, MMO, BusinessThe Draenei will be unreleased, the Outlands shall be explored, millions of people will log on to experience Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion -- and the servers maintain...

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By Christopher Grant Filed under: PC, Online, RPGs, MMOLo, it was rumored and lo, it has come to pass! Originally scheduled for release this November, Blizzard Entertainment -- developers of the massively popular MMO World of Warcraft -- have announced The Burning Crusade expansion will be delayed until J...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, MMOWorld of Warcraft fanatics have taken up their swords and a battle is being waged against villanous Wikipedia editors. At the center of this bloodfest is a listing of WOW incongruences found in the wiki entry of the latest South Park episode...

By Ross Miller A majority of the episode takes place in World of Warcraft, and the in-game choreography is superb. The episode is more of an homage to WOW than a satire, though it has its moments of absurdities (especially when involving the Blizzard staff). It's the hardcore World of Warcraft players tha...

By Ross Miller World of Warcraft is the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, with millions of players worldwide. In World of Warcraft, players assume the roles of legendary heroes as they develop friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and g...