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7 features that still make World of Warcraft awesome for relative newcomers like me in 2026 — as Blizzard Entertainment celebrates its 35th anniversary

With Blizzard's 35th anniversary and World of Warcraft: Midnight on the horizon, it's time I looked back on how I finally learned to enjoy this historic MMORPG by listing 7 seven major gameplay aspects that grew me after so many years of avoiding it.

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My 5 wishes for Blizzard Entertainment in 2026 range from a single-player Overwatch to the return of Starcraft — they may never happen, but a man can dream

Blizzard Entertainment is gearing up for its 35th anniversary later this year. In honor of this event, I'm going to list 5 things I wish to see from that may be impossible, but are worth dreaming about including improvements exisiting games or bringing back a dormant franchise.

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World of Warcraft: Legion Remix was supposed to be full of lawless fun, but it turned out to be awfully grindy

The juiced up old expansion shows the disconnect between developers and players.

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World of Warcraft takes home decorating in MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and adds the freedom of The Sims 4 building to it, letting you "resize and rotate stuff" using 3D software made to look more "WoW-like"

World of Warcraft's in-depth home decorator originally looked "too much like a software," so Blizzard "changed the art to feel like magic"

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World of Warcraft leads talk to us: Player Housing, Horde vs. Alliance, future classes and specs, player identity, the elusive 'Xbox version,' and more

We caught up with Ion Hazzikostas and Holly Longdale to talk about the past, present, and future of World of Warcraft.

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World of Warcraft: Midnight expansion confirmed to be fully revealed at Gamescom 2025 — Blizzard will show off an opening cinematic, story, gameplay, player housing public demos, and more

Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that it will fully unveil the World of Warcraft: Midnight expansion at Gamescom with an opening cinematic, gameplay deep dives, and more.

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Blizzard announces release date for World of Warcraft: The War Within's 3rd major content patch — a patch that will feature the largest, city-sized raid boss in MMORPG history

Blizzard Entertainment has announced the release date of 'Ghosts of K'aresh', the third major content patch for World of Warcraft: The War Within that will feature a new dungeon, new delves, new loot, a new raid, and more.

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Blizzard ends new content development for Warcraft Rumble and lays off staff: Former employee says 'most' of the team has been let go

Warcraft Rumble will continue to operate with in-game events and bug fixes, but further development is over.

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Xbox Game Pass Just Quietly Added The Most Influential Strategy Series Ever On PC

Three games in the most influential strategy series ever are coming to PC Game Pass, and each is a look at RTS history that still holds up today.

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Here's our very first look at the Rogue Trooper movie Warcraft director Duncan Jones said he was doing 7 years ago

The film was announced not long after Rebellion's 2017 shooter Rogue Trooper Redux fizzled out, and work has continued ever since.

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While World of Warcraft players wait for bad-loot-luck protection, I have a humble suggestion for Blizzard

Bad luck sucks. But there's a solution better than Dinar that would fix it for both raid and dungeon loot.

PC Gamer

Diablo 4 fans react poorly to its roadmap reveal — for things Blizzard should've already learned from

Blizzard fans already hated "borrowed power" in World of Warcraft. So why is it now core in Diablo 4?

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'We clearly need to have a car', Blizzard developers open up on the philosophy behind World of Warcraft's massive new Undermine(d) update

Two Blizzard developers explain the thoughts and influences behind the World of Warcraft's massive Undermine(d) update.

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Bobby Kotick reckons the Warcraft film was 'a terrible idea' for Blizzard, and in the end 'was one of the worst movies I've ever seen'

"It took a lot of resources and distracted them."

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WoW's Plunderstorm battle royale mode is much more popular the second time around: 'I can just play and screw around'

Changes to how players obtain items and how fast they earn them have pleased most would-be pirates.

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World of Warcraft has a currency problem: more than 500 kinds of tender can currently be used in the 20-year-old game

Things pile up in an long-running game, especially the items you hand over for goods.

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World of Warcraft's most recent patch soars with fun additions that last just long enough

Content update 11.0.7 added the new Siren Isle of short-term fun to entertain players until Plunderstorm 2.0.

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World of Warcraft's competitive dungeon mode is struggling

Blizzard is making class balance, dungeon and mechanics changes as Mythic Plus participation plummets.

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Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot

Good old GOG.

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20 years later, World of Warcraft is still on top

Achievement unlocked: 20 years of MMO domination

Inverse

20 Years Ago, 'World of Warcraft' Threw Everything But the Kitchen Sink At Us

It's been 20 years since 'World of Warcraft' changed the way people play together online, and Blizzard isn't close to running out of steam.

International Business Times

'World Of Warcraft' Still Going Strong As It Celebrates 20 Years

As it celebrates its 20th birthday, online video game "World of Warcraft" has demonstrated a rare longevity thanks to its loyal following and constant evolutions.

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World of Warcraft: The War Within still hasn't figured out Delves, its mini dungeons desperate for an identity

Warcraft's latest solo-dungeon experiment is a muddled mess.

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Warcraft 3: Reforged's 2.0 patch temporarily blocked access to the original RTS, with players who've owned the classic version for decades told that their license isn't valid

Thankfully, it's not an intentional change

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30 Years Ago, One Real-Time Strategy Game Revolutionized How We Play Today

'Warcraft: Orcs & Humans' helped turn a little-known developer into a gaming juggernaut, and revolutionized an entire genre along the way.

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