The latest World of Warcraft world first race, in which teams compete to finish a new Mythic raid faster than the others, has been settled: But the final boss was so anticlimactic that the winners almost surprised themselves (thanks, GR+). The War Within’s second season started on March 4, and the race to World First
(Image credit: Blizzard) World of Warcraft’s getting its own player housing, which’ll be dropping either on—or just a little before—the release of its next expansion, Midnight. Blizzard’s been drip-feeding details over the past few months, mostly by subtly elbowing Final Fantasy 14 for the woes of its own system. The styling-on-Square Enix is proceeding apace.
(Image credit: Blizzard) Blizzard has raised over $2 million for the charity CureDuchenne, using the seemingly irresistible lure of microtransactions for good. World of Warcraft players accomplished this via The Reven Pack (a cute little fox companion and a backpack to go with it), which Blizzard donated 100% of the purchase price of to CureDuchenne.
World of Warcraft’s controversial battle royale mode relaunched a week ago, once again pitting PvE mount and transmog collectors against hardcore PvP enjoyers. And this time around… almost no one is complaining. Blizzard made some smart changes to the way its pirate-themed Plunderstorm worked. The rate of earning plunder, the game mode’s currency, has increased.
(Image credit: Blizzard) World of Warcraft’s latest patch brought with it many returning activities and mechanics—and yet another type of currency to throw on top of the mountain of currencies it already contains. Virtually every game has some kind of gold or coins or points that you can exchange for goods or services. But none