Last night's episode of The Daily Show tackled the hilariously unsettling news that the American and British governments are spying on games like World of Warcraft and Second Life.
A popular Twitch.tv livestreamer had some unwanted guest stars yesterday evening—the Seminole County, Fla. Sheriff's Office, summoned by a troll who phoned in a report of someone threatening others with a knife. You can see it play out here.
A week ago we featured this guy
The famous South Park nerd
The next WoW expansion, Warlords of Draenor will focus on orcs, but most importantly time travel. As if the lore wasn't already confusing enough, WoD will make sure we get lost in the history of orcs and humans. But thanks to Redditor trytech, we might have a saviour, none other than Doc Brown from Back to the Future.
"We're fans of Warcraft 1, Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3, and we'd love to replay those games for sure." J. Allen Brack of Blizzard, talking about making the first three Warcraft games compatible with modern PCs. "We actually have [several guys] who are working on a side project to do something like that." [via Polygon]
The Warcraft movie is coming in 2015, yet we barely know anything about it outside of the setting and who's directing. At the Warcraft movie presentation at BlizzCon 2013, we learned a whole lot more, from setting to story and more.
World of Warcraft's familiar races are changing, and the new versions look pretty good. Update: Now with Gnome and Dwarf females, Undead males, and more from BlizzCon's Art of World of Warcraft panel.
Blizzard has revealed the very first key artwork for their upcoming all-star game, Heroes of the Storm, which we should be seeing more of tomorrow at BlizzCon. Everyone's here: Sylvanas from WoW, Nova from StarCraft, the Witch Doctor from Diablo, even Illidan and Anub'arak, I'm already sold!
BlizzCon starts Friday, and the hype around what could be a brand new World of Warcraft expansion is already out of hand. What will it be this time? Nagas? More Burning Legion? YouTuber iabeckman671, famous for his WoW Machinima, has his own (very fake) take: a trailer for every fan's dream WoW expansion.
Everyone, meet René Koiter. Halloween may have been three days ago, but we just caught a glimpse of his virtuoso rendering of Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones, which totally blew the curve for Blizzard's Halloween costume contest.
"Warcraft RTS: Alliance and Horde"—which one modder, tired of waiting 10 years for Warcraft IV, quit his job to build—just got its 1.0 release. Made with the StarCraft II editor
A maker of bot software for World of Warcraft—apps that auto-play characters and level them up—has lost a judgment that shuts down its operation. The bot maker also owes $7 million to Blizzard Entertainment, and it's asking those who used bots like "Pocket Gnome" to chip in.
The game once known as Blizzard DOTA changed its name to Blizzard All-Stars after a dispute
Using only the sparse information provided so far by Blizzard and Legendary Pictures and a whole slew of fantasy movie clips, YouTube editor BloodRunsClear delivers his vision of what 2015's World of Warcraft movie
The Duncan Jones-directed, possibly Colin Farrell-starring
The cast of the big-budget, Duncan Jones-directed Warcraft movie sounds as though it's coming together, according to a recent report at Deadline. Among the stars reportedly in talks to take lead roles are Mission Impossible's Paula Patton, Star Trek's Anton Yelchin and Bullseye himself, Colin Farrell.
Find the quest giver! The latest patch for Mists of Pandaria dropped last night and the days after a major content patch always mean pure chaos. This is the Timeless Isle, one of the new zones in the game, and the only thing that you can clearly see is that the screenshot was taken on a PvE server.
Warcraft and Civilization may contain two completely different game worlds with distinct game mechanics, but modder Bamington's Civilizations of Warcraft mod pack for Civ V—a huge project designed to add as much from the Warcraft universe as possible—fits like a glove.
New Beta Test: The closed beta for Hearthstone—Blizzard's Warcraft-themed card game—has just begun. You can sign up right here.
Both the World of Warcraft community and the game they play have changed a lot over the years. Just how much? Well, an out-of-nowhere revamp of Ian Beckman's much-loved fan video runs down the changes, featuring every class from the game.
In-game purchases? In World of Warcraft? Could happen, says a Blizzard community manager.
Blizzard's massively multiplayer online game is no longer quite so massive.
Professional Warcraft III player Seung Hyun Park (aka "Go)Space") passed away this Monday. He was 25 years old.
You just can't take gnomes seriously, even when they're embroiled in a desperate struggle for control of Westeros. The smallest, most sophisticated race in World of Warcraft are the perfect raw material for WoW machinima, this time for a Game of Thrones parody from the fine folks at Slightly Impressive.
Blizzard revealed its new World of Warcraft-themed collectible card game
Blizzard has just announced Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a free-to-play collectible card game set in the universe of Warcraft.
PAX East kicks off this morning in lovely scenic Boston, beginning with the big Blizzard Entertainment Presents panel from 10:00 to 10:30 Eastern. Or at least I am assuming it's big. Perhaps I should just stick with "new" until the mystery is solved.
