World of Warcraft is set to receive a major new expansion next month, which is called Battle for Azeroth. Blizzard is taking the necessary steps to prepare for the expansion by releasing a pre-patch, which gets things ready for the patch while also tweaking existing content. The Battle for Azeroth pre-patch adds the new Burning of Teldrassil storyline, which will ...
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Preview and Launch Date of Nighthold in World of Warcraft Revealed
After Warlords of Draenor failed to live up to expectations, Blizzard pledged to correct their mistakes in Legion. One issue that killed subscriber numbers (and frankly, the fun) in the previous release was the huge gap between content patches that left players burned out and desperate for more. It seems that Blizzard has made good on their promise so far ...
Read More »Blizzard Announces Newest Addition to Heroes of the Storm Roster
Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s 2015 foray into the MOBA scene, has a new character joining its roster of combatants. Zul’jin, Warlord of the Amani was revealed by Blizzard today along with detailed information on how he functions as a Hero. Zul’jin fills the Assassin role in Heroes of the Storm, and uses his axes and unique Berserker mechanic to ...
Read More »Online multiplayer games and the fostering of a real community
Online multiplayer games, such as World of Warcraft and League of Legends, are a lot of fun. One of their most appealing features is that the game, and its online community foster a very real sense of community amongst their players. People may have previously been under the impression that playing online games was a non social activity that you ...
Read More »Who’s Going to the Video Game Hall of Fame?
The World Video Game Hall of Fame. It’s located in New York (check it out if you get the chance). Here, games are memorialized for their impact on gaming, their popularity, even their geographical reach. Recently, the WVGHF announced that these 15 games were the finalists. This came after sorting through thousands upon thousands of entries. Starting from the 1972 to 2009, ...
Read More »WoW Patch 6.2 Preview: Timewalking
Earlier this week Blizzard released the patch 6.2 for their popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, onto their Public Test Realms. Though it will be a while until Patch is released onto the live servers, this is the first major look that players will be able to get at the new content that awaits. The patch will be introducing changes that ...
Read More »WoW Tokens: A New Way to Pay Your WoW Subscription
This week Blizzard Entertainment has released a new feature for their popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, which could potentially have a huge impact on the game’s future. This new release, however, has little to do with WoW’s game play, and more to do with how players pay for their game time. Instead of paying the typical $15 every month, players ...
Read More »Are World of Warcraft and Elder Scrolls Online going free to play?
In a time when most MMORPGs have long-since gone free to play, there are a few that still hang on for dear life to the subscription model. World of Warcraft is the best example for this as the game has already been running for more than ten years and you still have to pay a monthly fee if you want to ...
Read More »World of Warcraft patch 6.1 brings Twitter integration, upgradable Heirlooms, Veteran Edition accounts
Curious to find out what the next major World of Warcraft patch will bring to the table? Well, you don’t need to wait for Blizzard to make an official announcement because the change log for patch 6.1 has already been leaked online. An interesting new feature that will make its way to the game soon will apparently be Twitter integration. If you ...
Read More »Elder Scrolls Online Cuts 6 Month Subscription
The Elder Scrolls Online has cut their 6-month subscription option. This decision came around the time of the new year, and was not followed by any official announcement, it was much more of a stealth removal. The only official word from Zenimax Entertainment, developers of The Elder Scrolls Online, was, “We have noticed that players prefered subscriptions of 30 and ...
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