The Latest Breaking News from Ion Hazzikostas

Player housing is coming to World of Warcraft after 20 years, though you'll have to wait until the next expansion: 'It's a tremendously large undertaking'

Our house, in the middle of Warcraft.

PC Gamer · Nov 13, 2024

World of Warcraft's next major patch will let you drift in a car '4 to 5 times faster' than a normal ground mount, all while learning 'more about goblin culture than ever before'

Patch 11.1, Undermine(d), will be drifting into the game early next year.

PC Gamer · Nov 13, 2024

World of Warcraft: The War Within added "training wheels" to buff new players, but accidentally went too far with a bug that's letting them constantly "cheat death"

It should be fixed "in the coming days"

GamesRadar · Oct 3, 2024

'It's time to rebuild some foundations': Shadowlands forced Blizzard to rethink World of Warcraft's oldest ideas to make it a better MMO, director says

Player feedback has fueled several core changes to the MMO as it nears the release of its 10th expansion.

PC Gamer · Jul 9, 2024

WoW's devs will continue to use private auras, which limit UI addon functionality, in The War Within: though they'd like to be selective to avoid cures 'worse than the disease'

"A lot of what it boils down to is reclaim some design space."

PC Gamer · Jun 20, 2024

'The concerns about claustrophobia were a major aspect' of desiging World of Warcraft: The War Within's underground zones, says director

Blizzard didn't want Azeroth's caves to be drab.

PC Gamer · Apr 18, 2024

The next World of Warcraft expansion features an ancient race of spider people, so ahead of The War Within, the MMO is getting an arachnophobia mode to turn them into crabs instead

That's good news for WoW fans and plenty on the development team

GamesRadar · Apr 17, 2024

Blizzard quietly had World of Warcraft players test run The War Within's biggest new feature last year: underground zones

Dragonflight's Zaralek Caverns were the blueprint for what's coming in the next expansion.

PC Gamer · Apr 17, 2024

No matter how many years you've been away, World of Warcraft: The War Within is a perfect jumping on point for the MMO

After playing The War Within alpha, I'm almost certainly going to renew my subscription to the famed MMO later this year

GamesRadar · Apr 17, 2024

WoW: The War Within will tell its main story via delves and dungeons 'when it makes sense', giving me hope for an escape from 2 decades of raid-centric storytelling

That's the World of Warcraft that you play (on YouTube).

PC Gamer · Apr 17, 2024