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World of Warcraft Dragonflight Is Launching This Year (Question Mark)

Today the pre-orders for the next WoW expansion went up, with a bold declaration – that the expansion will be launched and running by December 31st, 2022.… Read more “World of Warcraft Dragonflight Is Launching This Year (Question Mark)”

Diablo Immortal is an albatross around the metaphorical neck of Blizzard Entertainment. The game’s announcement, as the marquee announcement at Blizzcon 2018, lives in infamy. The game… Read more “Diablo Immortal, The Blizzard Legacy, Monetization, and How We Discuss Addiction”

The Dragonflight expansion announcement last month was…odd. It was weird because of a confluence of factors – COVID-19 delays to Shadowlands’ entire content pipeline, how late it… Read more “What If Being Good Isn’t Enough? Dragonflight and the Looming Specter Of Activision-Blizzard News”

There definitely wasn’t anything else in the news around WoW or Blizzard that was worth discussing this week, right? Okay, okay – that…thing also happened, but I… Read more “World of Warcraft’s Social Contract And The Reaction”

We knew the announcement was coming today and people had their theories, but now we know for sure: the first entry of Warcraft as a mobile experience… Read more “Warcraft’s First Mobile Game Is Announced: Arclight Rumble”

Over the last few months, I’ve written quite a bit about becoming disenchanted with World of Warcraft (generating an Eternal Crystal in the process). The game was… Read more “The Thing I Want Most in The World of Warcraft 10.0 Reveal Event”

(Editing note: this post is long, and will be the first of a three part series looking at WoW analytically in light of the coming conclusion of… Read more “Is The World of Warcraft Community, Like, Okay?”

This is going to be a short one, because I think it is worth noting and discussing in brief. (edit: lol 2,122 words) Yesterday was investor call… Read more “The Revelation of A Warcraft Mobile Game For 2022”

I was in the middle of a whole other draft post, but wow, this needs to be addressed. Today, Blizzard announced that in patch 9.2.5 (an update… Read more “Cross-Faction Gameplay In WoW Is Real and Coming Soon (TM)”

It’s not news I expected to wake up to, but news all the same. Today, Microsoft announced a tentative deal with Activision-Blizzard to acquire the company in… Read more “Microsoft Buying Activision-Blizzard And What The Future (Could) Hold”