World of Warcraft News

World of Warcraft is celebrating the new year with fireworks, drunken revelry, and PvP in places usually patrolled by now-drunken guards. Players can also dance the new year away in the Orgrimmar and Stormwind auction houses which have been cleared and turned into colorful dance clubs. The Wrath of the Lich King timewalking is also now available for players who [...]

Back in November, Blizzard Entertainment enabled free character transfers in World of Warcraft to encourage players on more populated realms to move to less-populated ones in an effort to keep queue times down to a minimum. According to a recent post on the official forums, the free transfers will only be available until 11 am PST later today, December 17th [...]

It’s been two weeks since World of Warcraft Shadowlands came out and the numbers are in. Blizzard Entertainment proudly reports that the expansion has sold over 3.7 million units worldwide making it the “fastest-selling PC game of all time.” The record was previously held by Diablo 3, which sold 3.5 million units the day that it launched in 2012. Blizzard [...]

Progression in World of Warcraft has always been a rather linear experience. You start off in one zone, complete a few quests, then head on to the next zone in the storyline until you ultimately reach the endgame zone. Shadowlands, however, comes with a new feature called Threads of Fate that will allow your alts to explore the afterlife and [...]

After being delayed from late October to late November, World of Warcraft players can finally cross the veil to the afterlife with the official launch of the highly-awaited Shadowlands expansion. Shadowlands is the eighth expansion for Blizzard’s classic fantasy MMORPG which has just turned sweet sixteen in time with the expansion’s launch yesterday. "With a single act of destruction, Sylvanas [...]

Blizzard Entertainment has just dropped a new dev blog and video survival guide in preparation for the World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion next week. The dev blog gives players and fans a quick overview of how Professions will work in Shadownlands. This includes the introduction of Legendary Runecarving, less backfires for Engineers, optional reagents, and the removal of Star Ranks. [...]

The long-awaited World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion is finally launching next week and Blizzard Entertainment is eager to get the hype train rolling with a new cinematic trailer. The trailer shows off the four Covenants and their respective zones in the Shadowlands. The Jailer, which has been the subject of datamining over the past few months, also makes a quick [...]

Blizzard Entertainment paves the way for the World of Warcraft Shadowlands expansion launch later this month with a pre-expansion event where players will once again face off against the Scourge. The two-part event will run until the expansion’s release and will give players above a chance to earn tokens to purchase the event-exclusive Argent Conscript armor set, the Putrid Geist [...]

Blizzard Entertainment is giving inactive World of Warcraft players a chance to try out the game in its current form for free from now until November 8th. The free-play event will include access to the game and all the characters on the inactive account without the need for a subscription. “Shadowlands is nearly here, and you and your allies are [...]

Blizzard Entertainment has just updated their policy to make multi-boxing a whole lot harder to get away with in World of Warcraft. Technically, it’s the third-party software itself that’s illegal but it does make life more difficult for botters and RMT traders. Blizzard explains in a recent post on the official site: “As World of Warcraft has evolved, our policies [...]