New is not always better. World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, took the world by storm and sold record numbers of copies only to see a gigantic dip in subscriptions months later. Gamers, fed up with Cataclysm, were eager to finally get it out of the way, shoving it onto the back burner [...]
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World of Warcraft Patch 5.3 Preview
On the public-test-realms now, World of Warcraft patch 5.3 is a story, balance and solo (or small-group) content patch. Some of the data has already begun pre-downloading on the Background Downloader for the live servers, so the patch is likely only a few weeks away now. Besides the reduction in the number of Lesser Charms [...]
World of Warcraft Patch 5.2 Rise of the Thunder King Preview
World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, moves closer to the release of the first major PvE and raid content patch of the expansion, 5.2. This patch, Rise of the Thunder King, is similar to the Sunwell patch in that it provides a new island, the Isle of the Thunder King, with a new [...]
World of Warcraft’s Fight Club: The Brawler’s Guild
Throughout World of Warcraft‘s long life, one of the most common requests on the forums has been single-player dungeons, in which players could solo more of the powerful enemies typically found in such places. Though it might have taken a few years, Blizzard has finally introduced a feature allowing players to take on enemies with [...]
World of Warcraft: The Sound of Pandas Fighting
World of Warcraft‘s newest expansion Mists of Pandaria has been keeping players busy with new features for months. What might go unnoticed however is the quality of Mists’ soundtrack and how it brings an Asiatic swing to everyone’s favorite MMO. This is perhaps the most complex and intricate score to come from Blizzard’s World of Warcraft franchise [...]
Forge (PC) Review
Initially, Forge will strike players as an MMO. Forge looks like something ripped out of World of Warcraft or anything else with fantasy elements attached to it. Though the genre is common, it allows for the most flexibility. After all, it’s more believable to watch people wearing enormous sets of armor and horned helmets shoot [...]
World of Warcraft Patch 5.1 Landfall Review
Blizzard released the well-anticipated 5.1 Patch, Landfall, for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria on Nov 27. The main focus of this patch is story content, specifically questing and scenarios, but 5.1 does bring some much-demanded balance changes to PvP as well as the new Brawler’s Guild. Because of the slow nature of unlocking access [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic – Free to Play or Free to Fail?
In the world of massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG), World of Warcraft holds all of the power. Over the years many small MMOs have tried to challenge WoW’s total control. At the end of 2011, Bioware‘s Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) tried to challenge WoW’s dominance. However after a few months, several major [...]
Gaming in WoP (the World of Politics)
Politics are as vicious as any PvP game out there. Political opponents will trash talk with the best of them, political allies will quickly turn on one another if something goes wrong with their team, and on occasion, you may even get the occasional troll showing up at political rallies, trying to ruin the proceedings. [...]
Pamela Horton, Playboy’s Miss October, Talks Gaming
Pamela Horton will be appearing on the cover of Playboy‘s October issue earning her the title of Miss October on the popular magazine. As it turns out, Pamela Horton is a huge gamer, going back many years to the days of the Nintendo 64. Ms. Horton’s PR department alerted our team here at Gaming Illustrated [...]
