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Karazhan Returns On 25 October News

World of Warcraft players will be able to jump into Karazhan once more this coming October 25th with Legion content patch 7.1 Return to Karazhan. Karazhan marks the first major content patch since the release of the highly successful expansion World of Warcraft Legion.

World of Warcraft's 'Emerald Nightmare' Ushers in the 'World First' Race News

As the Emerald Nightmare finally opens its corrupt doors, as do the bloodthirsty heroes of the of Horde and Alliance. The race to a world first clear has begun. Through typical MMORPG fashion, the release of a new raid scenario means every available group begins to devour crazy hours to claiming 'World First' clears of both individual boss encounters and the slaughterhouse as a whole.

Goodbye, Battle.net! Hello... Blizzard News

Officially releasing with the original Diablo, Battle.net has been the staple service of Blizzard's catalogue of classic games since the late 90's - but its days are now numbered with Blizzard set to move on from the name in the new future. While its clear to have already happened with the likes of Blizzard Streaming - a tie-in with Facebook - and Blizzard Voice the company has stated how it made sense to call the service Battle.net all those years ago when online multiplayer was still fresh out of the gate.

Blizzard's Chris Metzen retires from games industry aged 42 News

Chris Metzen was only twentie years old when he started working for Blizzard as an animator and an artist back in 1993. Since then he's gone on to achieve incredible things, by providing voice talent and overseeing the stories for Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft, to becoming the Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development at Blizzard.

Almost Nineteen year's after it was cancelled, pre-release build of Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans appears for download News

Back in 1997 after the release of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, Blizzard Entertainment started working on its first point and click adventure game known as Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. The game was out-sourced to an american company called Animation Magic, who created over twenty-two minutes of fully animated sequences, along with the games artwork, engine and sound effects. Blizzard worked on the designs, the world backgrounds, storyline and sound recording, but unfortunately it just wasn't meant to be. Just after a year of development, it was decided that Warcraft Adventures would be cancelled. Rumours started putting the cancellation down to the deteriorating of the adventure game genre in 1997, but Blizzard said in a press release that it was about quality.

World of Warcraft is rejuvenated with 3.3 million sales of Legion expansion News

Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft: Legion, the sixth expansion for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, has sold more than 3.3 million copies since its launch on the 30th August. This milestone means that Legion has matched the all-time record achieved by previous expansions, marking the highest launch-week player concurrency since Cataclysm released back in 2010. This also makes it one of the fastest selling PC games ever.