What would Thrall, Jaina and the average NPCs of World of Warcraft do on their imaginary YouTube channels? SlightlyImpressive shows us—with some amazing voice acting—that they would handle it pretty well. » 2/24/14 9:40am 2/24/14 9:40am

Who said World of Warcraft was dying? For the first time in a long time, the game's playerbase has stopped the rot, going from 7.6 million user last year to 7.8 today. » 2/06/14 6:06pm 2/06/14 6:06pm

The numbers may be shrinking a bit in recent years but, when you look at it, the sheer aggregate of people who've made a toon, joined a raid or bought a pet in World of Warcraft is still mind-boggling. » 1/28/14 4:00pm 1/28/14 4:00pm

During today's Sony keynote at CES, Sony's Kazuo Hirai went through a very detailed speech about what he thinks is unique about Sony, emphasizing a certain sense of "wow" as he put it. He spent a lot of time discussing the successes of their past as well as the creativity in their present, bringing up great examples to… » 1/07/14 3:30pm 1/07/14 3:30pm

Blizzard has identified a fake version of World of Warcraft's Curse Client add-on manager that secretly installs "trojan" malware onto users' computers, stealing account information and passwords. » 1/03/14 2:45pm 1/03/14 2:45pm

Late last week, in Zhejiang province's Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn't commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. » 12/23/13 7:00am 12/23/13 7:00am

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. » 12/10/13 11:30am 12/10/13 11:30am

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. » 12/04/13 4:00pm 12/04/13 4:00pm

Conan O'Brien took a trip to this year's BlizzCon to play World of Warcraft's next expansion and to try to understand one of the most popular MMOs out there. But he also stepped in as a commentator for the World of Warfract Arena Global Finals with, well, not much knowledge of the game at all. » 11/21/13 10:40am 11/21/13 10:40am

Blizzard Entertainment's upcoming digital trading card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, is eagerly awaited by fans all around the world. In China, the game is currently in a semi-open beta. Things aren't all sunshine and rainbows for Blizzard, however, as there are issues abound and competitors to squash. » 11/18/13 8:00am 11/18/13 8:00am

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. » 11/12/13 9:20am 11/12/13 9:20am

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. » 11/06/13 9:00am 11/06/13 9:00am

This is what happens when a GoPro camera is strapped to the back of an eagle. You get the world's greatest third-person (third-bird?) view. » 9/18/13 11:00pm 9/18/13 11:00pm

Christian Thurau and Anders Drachen have written an academic paper. A very important one. It's all about the patterns and significance of the names people give to their World of Warcraft characters. Their findings? That there are patterns. And that the most popular names are pretty terrible. » 9/11/13 11:00pm 9/11/13 11:00pm

Blizzard has released a statement revealing that there's been a "recent increase in unauthorized World of Warcraft account-logins". » 6/25/13 11:30pm 6/25/13 11:30pm