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PC

Good Lord, World Of Warcraft Is Old

In an industry where games barely even a month old are slashed in price then swiftly forgotten, World of Warcraft is an exceptional, well, exception.

September 19, 2011
PC

This World Of Warcraft Family Is A Bad Sitcom In The Making

The family that games together stays together. Or so the Santellana family believes, having traded in family outings for nights spent roaming Azeroth on their matching mounts.

September 10, 2011
PC

Canadian Cable Giant Admits It Could Be ‘Inadvertently’ Throttling Games

In March, Canadian gamers were upset to learn that World of Warcraft traffic was being throttled by Rogers Cable and Telecom, the country’s largest broadband provider. Now the company has admitted that other games’ online traffic might trip its pipeline monitors and result in their throttling, which Rogers called “inadvertent.” Canadian gamers do not accept that answer.

August 4, 2011
News

World Of Warcraft Still Losing Players

World of Warcraft’s player numbers have been stalled since late 2008, and in decline for most of 2011. That’s the bad news for the game’s developers, Blizzard.

August 3, 2011
News

Is World Of Warcraft Taking Giant Man-Pandas A Little More Seriously?

With Blizzcon only a few months away, a trademark filing has surfaced hinting at what could well be the last big hurrah for the ageing MMO.

July 1, 2011
PC

Would You Like To Take A World Of Warcraft Questionnaire?

The University of California at Santa Cruz is studying how WoW players arrange their interface elements to do various in-game tasks, such as raiding. If you play WoW, click on through and answer away! [WoWIU Study]

June 16, 2011
PC

World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm’s 4.2 Trailer Burns The House Down

You know a game is big when its patches get big fancy trailers.

April 23, 2011
PC

Romancing The Gnomes Leads To Happily Ever After In Warcraft

Cutting-edge trendspotter The New York Times today tackled the phenomenon of MMO-facilitated romance, noting that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft is six times that of Match.com.

April 15, 2011
PC

FBI Raids Students, Looking For Gold Farming Fraud

The FBI now is raiding homes looking for World of Warcraft gold farmers. The party van showed up March 30 at an apartment shared by two University of Michigan students (building pictured), who say the feds have got the wrong suspects.

April 11, 2011
In Real Life

Wow, There Are A LOT Of Gold Farmers Out There

Gold farming is the practice of harvesting crap in online worlds with the aim of selling it for real-world money. Most developers frown on the practice, but that’s not stopping an estimated 100,000 people from doing it.

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