World of Warcraft

Robin had the opportunity to go hands on with the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, The War Within. Here are our thoughts on our first hands-on with The Worldsoul Saga.

One of the best announcements at BlizzCon is going live this Thursday, the Season of Discovery for World of Warcraft Classic. Jumping off from the success of Hardcore Classic, the Season of Discovery offers new ways to play Classic and new things to discover. So let's jump into the big highlights of what we can look forward to on November 30th at 1 pm PST.

From its first moments, Warcraft Rumble is charming, and interesting. Positioned as a "game within a game," Warcraft Rumble aims to add more life to the overall Warcraft universe by answering the question: What do the citizens of Azeroth do in their downtime?

In a presentation yesterday, Blizzard announced their next major update (patch 10.1), Embers of Neltharion, which will be continuing the storyline kicking off in the upcoming 10.0.7 Forbidden Reach update. In addition to a sneak peek at the new storyline, we also found out a ton of info about the new zone, raid, mythic+ dungeons, and systems updates (cross-faction guilds!).

Last week, the alpha for the anticipated World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight, went live. Robin checked out the Azure Span, Dragonriding and more to see how they are shaping up as we move towards launch.

Recently we had the chance to check out World of Warcraft Shadowlands ahead of next week's beta. Robin takes you through the Venthyr, max level Maw and talks about Torghast.

World of Warcraft Shadowlands releases later this year, and we had a chance to check out the early alpha over the past few days. Robin gives us her thoughts on the early alpha of World of Warcraft Shadowlands.

World of Warcraft is getting ready to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. No momentous occasion such as this would be complete without an amazing commemorative collector’s edition and a plethora of in-game festivities that will yield some fantastic rewards for players.

This year at PAX East Blizzard brought a demo of their newest content from the Battle for Azeroth expansion, Island Expeditions. These are small group content (3v3) and is meant to be playing in 15 – 30 minute bursts. There will be normal, heroic, mythic, and PvP modes available at launch but the demo was of the normal mode versus AI.

The next expansion for World of Warcraft is Battle for Azeroth that finally takes the dormant cold war between the two factions to the next level. We were able to get our hands on two of the new zones coming with the game’s 7th expansion. There’s a metric ton of new content coming with BfA, but sadly most of that new stuff has to wait for the beta. Read on for our impressions of Fallhaven and the town possessed by a Witch in Kul’Tiras.

The new expansion continues to impress finally taking up the rally of the Horde. Blizzard had the factions working together a lot in the past few expansions. Battle for Azeroth sets the side apart again and allows factions to explore maps and islands apart and in contention. We started out in the Horde starting area and here is what we learned.

World of Warcraft: Legion will be receiving its second milestone update when v7.2 “Tomb of Sargeras” hits in the next several months. Nighthold, the most recent raid, has just been opened in Mythic difficulty as well as LFR Wing 1 and the next big patch has already been applied to the Public Test Realm. 7.2 will bring in a new raid, a new dungeon and much more.

Come August 9th World of Warcraft players will be treated to the first new Hero Class in years. We had the chance to go through a making of retrospective for the class with the Blizzard team. The guys dug deep to talk about the feel of the class and how it operates among the rest that everyone has played for over a decade now.

Bill Murphy didn’t expect to find himself back in World of Warcraft, but on a whim he decided to re-subscribe and see what the upcoming pre-expansion patch is all about. In the week leading into the Pre-Patch (which launches today after maintenance), Bill finds himself reveling in old haunts, the victim of both nostalgia and hype for a major new update.

On March 15, 2016, Blizzard Entertainment and Dark Horse Comics will publish World of Warcraft Chronicle: Volume 1. The book is a compendium of lore and background information. The Legion expansion swirls around many of WoW’s iconic moments including Illidan, Queen Azshara, the Pillars of Creation, the Old Gods, the Titans and many others. We will be sharing a few excerpts over the course of the week and that will have relevance when Legion launches later in 2016.