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World Of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is an MMORPG from Blizzard Entertainment. It is the world's most popular MMO with millions of players worldwide and it is considered as one of the biggest games of all time.
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Diving into fishing mini-games from five different angles

Stardew Valley screnshoot of female character fishing on a pier
Hook. Check. Line. Check. Sinker. Check. Video games have tried to contextualise fishing through play on many occasions, with varying degrees of success. All the perks of a fisherman's day, without enduring the pests of real-life weather.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth air drop and bounty systems

Screenshot of an Orc looking at an air drop in Battle for Azeroth
Blizzard previously announced the arrival of new PvP ranking system in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth and now it's world PvP's turn. The changes take the form of War Mode and features tied to it, such as air drops and bounty system.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is overhauling PvP ranking

Picture of a bunch of Hordies on a poster for Battle for Azeroth
Blizzard have revealed more World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth changes, this time aimed at the PvP ranking system. This includes new PvP rank tiers, skill and participation rewards as well as end of season reward criteria changes.

WoW: Battle for Azeroth will bring massive Warrior changes

Horde and Alliance versions of the Warfront Tier 3 plate armour sets
Fury Warriors have fallen out of favour with the global cooldown changes as they impair the ability to keep stacking several different buffs at the same time. Blizzard are now hoping to change that with World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

World of Warcraft Battle for Lordaeron and Draenor ramifications

High Overlord Varok Saurfang is completely baffled by Sylvanas
There was talk about weird things happening on Draenor last week and now the insanity seems to have spilled into Azeroth, all thanks to the build-up to Battle for Azeroth. This does make me wonder how crazy the final conflict will be.

Blizzard have put a DDoSer behind bars after eight years

A dwarf is flying on a gryphon in World of Warcraft.
Calin Mateias is, or was, a World of Warcraft players from Romania that had the bad habit of DDoSing people he didn't like. Blizzard have accused him of crashing their servers back in September 2010 but the process took eight years.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth sales are running wild

Sylvanas Windrunner and Anduin Wrynn are looking angrily at each other.
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth hype seems to be rather high as Blizzard's executives have confirmed that preorders for the expansion are going "strong" and "ahead of plan" during a financial report with the company's investors.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth potential story directions

Bolvar Fordragon as the Lich King
Recent patches to the Public Test Realm have revealed some possible outcomes of Battle for Azeroth's story. None of this can be said for certain, but Blizzard has been known to love foreshadowing. What we can do is give educated guesses.

WoW's new expansion will take the Marksmanship Hunter in a new direction

Sylvanas and Saurfang standing next to each other
The changes to Marksmanship Hunters aren't a new thing, as Blizzard have changed the way other classes work in previous expansions. Now they're creating a new playstyle for hunter players which will be a more tactical approach to the class.

GTA is not the most profitable commercial entertainment product, World of Warcraft is

Characters from World of Warcraft and Trevor from GTA V
Circling the headlines yesterday were news of GTA V being the most lucrative commercial entertainment product ever but the lads over at GameWatcher disagree with beancounters at MediaWatch, claiming it's not GTA - it's World of Warcraft.