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For 20 years, World of Warcraft has dominated the online role-playing games space by providing its fanbase with frequent updates to gameplay and content, such as the popular Wrath of the Lich King and the imminent The War Within expansions.

Star Wars: Jedi Survivor was one of our favourite games of last year (here's our five-star review to prove it), so we couldn't resist the opportunity to ask a few questions to its composers at the BAFTA Games Awards.

Streaming is taking yet another step toward cable. Just weeks after combining its Hulu and Disney Plus services, Disney Plus is adding streaming channels, according to a report from The Information. This marks the latest push toward the old model of TV-watching from one of the world’s biggest streaming companies, and while that may sound like a step backwards, it’s probably a good thing in the long run.

The next step in Helldivers 2’s ongoing Galactic War is here, and it’s just about the most straightforward yet: kill bugs. Lots of bugs.

The latest Helldivers 2 Major Order is live, and it simply tasks Super Earth's soldiers with squishing two billion Terminids in right around six days.

On the first alpha build of The War Within, we were able to take a look at the pre-patch event for the first expansion of the Worldsoul Saga, Radiant Echos! This event will have you revisit old zones in Azeroth and face memories and enemies of the past. Check out all currently known details in this post!

Blizzard Entertainment has said that it still hopes to bring World of Warcraft to Xbox consoles one day.

The Isle of Dorn is the first zone players will explore in The War Within. Located on the northwestern portion of Khaz Algar, the Isle of Dorn hold the ancestral home of the Earthen. In this post, we preview some of the zone with screenshots of several locations.

There’s a fresh trailer for Zombie Army VR, teasing the game’s undead sniping antics ahead of a launch for PSVR 2, Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro, and PC VR via Steam later this year.

GameSpot has released a writeup of their hands-on experience with The War Within, citing it as more of the same Warcraft, but in a good way! GameSpot Hands-on The War Within

One of the new questlines in Patch 11.0 is a scenario where we see Magni once more! We completed the questline to bring you all the details.

The War Within first alpha build adds dozens of new mount models to the game, including Fireflies, Wild Unicorns, Lynxes, and more!

Brann Bronzebeard is our trusty companion for Delve groups in Season 1 of The War Within. As we explore Delves, Brann is able to help us with abilities, to the point where we can tailor him to be a DPS or a healer! Check below how to change Brann's role in The War Within, and what abilities he has on each role.

Similar to Dragonflight, The War Within is massively reducing the XP required to reach the entry point of the expansion, level 70. With War Within, you need only about 45% of the total XP required to reach 70 than you required in Dragonflight, with the biggest cuts in the level 60 to 70 bracket.

With The War Within Druids will be able to use their Flight form with Skyriding, the new name of Dragonriding. Check out our preview of the flight form in action. Remember that you're able to toggle between Skyridding and Steady Flight easily in your mount journal.

With the first playable The War Within Alpha build, the questline for the first zone, Isle of Dorn, is playable. We completed the questline to bring you all the details!

In a group interview with content creators in London, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas confirmed that Blizzard plans to allow Dracthyr to roll other classes besides Evoker in The War Within. During the Interview, Ion confirmed that while that's the plan for the expansion, it won't be a launch feature, but he's hoping they'll be ready early on in the expansion. A glimpse of this future happened on the BlizzCon Warbands preview, when Blizzard has a Dracthyr character wearing leather gear by accident.

Our look at War Within models continues with the Outdoor Arathor weapons and armor sets! This particular tribe of Arathi split from the original empire long ago, and arrived in Hallowfall guided by the vision of a falling star. Their armor and weapons reflect how their culture is completely devoted to the Light, and if you'd like to learn more about the Arathi, check out our lore overview - The Arathi in the War Within

The Earthen are a new playable Allied Race unlocked in The War Within. Here is our preview of all their customization options, including beards, gems, and hair styles! The Earthen is the first Neutral Allied Race available to both Alliance and Horde players, and boasts 10 playable classes--all classes save for Druid, Evoker, and Demon Hunters. While BlizzCon gave us a few teasers of this race, including beards on both male and female Earthen, now we can delve into all their appearance details. Before we dig into every single customization option, here's some random combinations of their options, so you can get a feel for how the race looks. And if you're inspired, you can create your own Earthen in our TWW Dressing Room and choose the perfect customization/armor combos! Create Your Earthen in the Dressing RoomEarthen Info — Racials, Heritage Armor, Pally Mount

We've datamined a preview of the Paladin Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined, but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

Towelliee has released a fantastic interview with George Velev and Andrew Desousa on the War Within discussing many popular topics including Mythic+ Affixes, Augmentation Evoker, Raid Buffs, difficult Mythic bosses and more!

Humans, Blood Elves, and several other races are receiving point and round ear customization options in The War Within. Below you can see how the new Point ear customization options look like on Humans and Kul Tirans.

In looking through the War Within customization data, one race stood out as a mystery--the Harronir. While we expected to see the Earthen Allied Race show up with many new customization descriptions, seeing so many options for the Harrionir took us by surprise. While we haven't encountered the Harronir in War Within announcements and demos so far, based on their appearances we suspect they might be a race we'll interact with in higher-level zones, with aesthetic elements reminiscent of Trolls, Elves, and Venthyr. No confirmation that they'll be a playable Allied Race, but in past expansions, NPC races with numerous customization options--think Nighborne or Vulpera--later became Allied Races. And while you can't play a Harronir in-game, you can create your own in our TWW Dressing Room, fully customize them, and dress them up in armor! Harronir Customizations in Dressing Room The Harronir customization options you see below are a promising start, but they'd still need some work to be a true Allied Race, as they're lacking some player-favorite options like a variety of hair styles or colors. Either way, we can't wait to see them in War Within and learn more about this shadowy race's backstory!

With our continued alpha test datamining, we've discovered legendary trinkets associated with none other than our longtime friend Brann Bronzebeard, famed explorer and designated Delve companion in Season 1 of The War Within! While we don't have a lot to go off of right now, this appears very different from most legendaries we are used to. Most interesting is the relation to Bann Bronzebeard, who we already know is the designated Delve companion for Season 1, though the fact that the trinket either summons Brann or buffs him if he's already present suggests that the trinket isn't just meant for use during Delves where he would always be present anyway. There's also a potential hint within the flavor text, in that the trinket is «Entrusted to you by Brann Bronzebeard himself.» We may be reading a little too far into it, but that sounds an awful lot like the trinket could be a reward for maxing out some kind of level, friendship, or reputation track with the explorer.

With Warbands arriving with The War Within, Blizzard is experimenting with more achievements that possibly require multiple characters. One example is the new Algarian Dungeoneer, which requires you to complete a Mythic Dungeon performing each role. This achievement is supported by three others: Algarian Dungeon Tank, Algarian Dungeon Healer, and Algarian Dungeon Damage Dealer. Each requires you to complete a Mythic Dungeon with each of the game's roles. Completing Algarian Dungeoneer also rewards the Versatile Peddler transmog set, which can be seen below.

We've datamined all the Death Knight Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined, but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

The War Within features eight new dungeons including 4 Level-Up dungeons and 4 Max-Level Dungeons. We have our first look at all the encounters in each dungeons and raids, including all of the NPC abilities!

Fallout helmer and Bethesda boss Todd Howard once again confirms that yes, the TV show adaptation is canon.

World of Warcraft's The War Within expansion spotlights one of the MMO's most ancient yet unexplored races: a group of antagonistic arachnoids known as the Nerubians. While that's exciting for lore heads everywhere, it also requires Blizzard to solve an age-old design dilemma – what about the players who don't like spiders? 

World of Warcraft's executive producer says "the dream remains" regarding the long-running MMO coming to Xbox one day, even if you're likely facing a wait to see that happen.

With the introduction of Warbands, the Human Racial Diplomacy will be reworked, no longer providing bonus reputation. Blizzard stated in their War Within Warbands Preview post that the beloved Human racial, long used by players to gain an edge on Reputation grinding, will be reworked due to Warbands affecting alt and account progression:

We've datamined all the Evoker Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

We've datamined all the Hunter Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

We've datamined all the Monk Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

The War Within first alpha build adds dozens of new mount models to the game, including Fireflies, Wild Unicorns, Lynxes, and more!

Homeworld 3 has suffered a number of delays on its road to launch, but it seems the game is actually sticking to its May release date. In fact, publisher Gearbox is detailing the game’s post-launch content, which will focus on the game’s roguelike-flavored multiplayer mode, War Games, with additional free challenges and three paid DLC content drops which you can acquire via the game’s $20 Year One Pass.

We've datamined the Druid Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

We've datamined all the Warrior Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

We've datamined the Rogue Tier Set appearances coming in Season 1 of The War Within. Season 1 Tier Sets will be available from the Nerub'ar Palace Raid featuring eight bosses, culminating in a showdown with Queen Ansurek, the Nerubian ruler who's leading her people down a dark path. First Look at the Nerub'ar Palace Raid Tier Set bonuses are still unavailable to be datamined but stay tuned for updates when they become available.

In an interview, Blizzard revealed that «Heroic Week» is returning in The War Within. Dragonflight changed the raid release schedule for the first time in a while, removing «Heroic Week» — a one week period where Mythic raids and the full loot pool of Mythic+ were not open. While removing «Heroic Week» had upsides for certain players, such as not having arbitrary caps for 1 week, it has been criticized by others for:

The WoW The War Within Physical Collector's edition is now available for pre-order on the Blizzard gear store for $180 USD. The Physical Collector's Edition comes with a trove of collectibles including an iconic Gryphon Rider statue, Commemorative Pin featuring Anduin, Alleria, and Thrall, and Hardcover Art Book. Pre-Order The War Within Physical Collector's Edition According to the Blizzard Gear Store: 'This is a pre-order product and is not available to ship until December 2024.'

Blizzard has released new products in the Blizzard Gear Store, including Alliance and Horde Signet Rings and a Mouse Mat for The War Within! Whether you're looking for something simple to wear during The War Within, or something a bit more flashy to express your faction pride, these new products have something for everyone.

Blizzard released a massive blue post giving an official preview on Warbands, one of the main features of The War Within!

We've uploaded all 6 new Hero Talent Trees as well as updated all our talent trees from the War Within Alpha! Preview the new trees for Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, and Warlock. All New & Updated Hero Talent Trees in The War Within

With Alpha upon us, we got an early preview of the new 10v10 Battleground, Deephaul Ravine, coming in the The War Within.

One of the main features of The War Within is Delves, small scenarios that can be done with groups of 1 to 5 players. With the first build of The War Within alpha, we played through Delves to take a first look at what they have to offer!

A new quality of life feature coming in The War Within is Arachnophobia Mode, allowing players to dynamically change spider creature models into crabs! Defined as the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions and ticks, arachnophobia is estimated to affect 3.5 to 6.1% of the global population, and given that we already know The War Within takes us deep beneath the surface of Azeroth and into conflict with the Nerubians within, it's no surprise that The War Within contains quite a lot of spiders! A completely seamless toggle found within the game options, Arachnophobia Mode doesn't even require a game reload. However, it is clearly still a work-in-progress, as many of the more humanoid looking nerubian models are not yet affected, nor are bosses, pets, or mounts.

At the very beginning of The War Within, players are dropped into a familiar location. While we don't know exactly what's going on yet, the area is easy to recognize...

Wowhead is happy to announce that our The War Within Talent Calculator is now live and updated for all classes & Hero Talents! Plan, theorycraft, and share your talent builds including all Hero specs! Wowhead's The War Within Talent Calculator

There are new Account-Wide leveling rewards in War Within. Hitting 80 with multiple characters grants you bonus experience on future characters and a new Bank Toy!

Continuing our datamining of The War Within Alpha, we have important NPCs and unique models. These include Alleria Windrunner and Anduin, with their updated models from the War Within key art, and the dwarven family Magni, Moira, and her son Dagran, all grown up! Make sure to use our table of contents to navigate along the post.

We've datamined the War Within Mythic+ dungeon rotation for Season 1 which includes the return of Shadowlands Dungeons and Siege of Boralus. The War Within marks the return of Shadowlands dungeons to the Mythic+ dungeon pool, with 2 returning in Season 1. Cataclysm's Grim Batol is returning as well, as well as the dreaded Siege of Boralus from Battle for Azeroth.

The Warband bank is one of the features arriving with The War Within, which allows you to utilize resources account-wide and share them easily between alts. We've had a chance to play with the Warbank on Alpha and test some of its features. Warbands BlizzCon Feature Preview

Here's a list of all 464 flying mounts that are able to Dragonride in The War Within! In-game, you are able to toggle between dynamic flying (Skyriding) and regular flying (Steady Flight) in your mount journal window.

Correctly, Blizzard loves to start new World of Warcraft expansions with a Big Explosion of some sort. In Legion, Khadgar teleports an entire city to float above an island chain. In Battle for Azeroth, there's a tense ship battle influenced by a demigod. In Shadowlands, basically everyone dies. Seriously. Now, with The War Within on the horizon, Blizzard has conceived of another way to kick off an expansion with some proper fireworks, by completely demolishing a beloved in-game location.

Back in 2022, I previewed World of Warcraft's last expansion, Dragonflight, in a press pre-alpha situation. Though I'm always hesitant to glowingly recommend an entire MMORPG expansion based on brief early alpha storyline play and not the sum of its content, Dragonflight felt exceptional out of the gate, and was, largely thanks to the transformative new dragonriding mechanic and other major changes that shook off the dust from the widely panned Shadowlands expansion. Blizzard designed the Dragon Isles with bombast in mind, and my very early experiences zipping around them adequately conveyed the sense of increased scale and majesty that would carry throughout the entire expansion.

Blizzard has just given the wider public its first proper look at The War Within, the next expansion to World of Warcraft coming later this year and the start of its three-part, MCU-like Worldsoul Saga.

World of Warcraft: The War Within is out later this year, and at launch will be trying something new for a WoW expansion: a three-day, paid early access period. When this was announced, a lot of people were pretty upset! But in an interview with IGN ahead of the game's alpha launch, game director Ion Hazzikostas defended the decision, calling it an "experiment."

Get a closer look at the new Warbands System with the World of Warcraft development team.

World of Warcraft®: The War Within™ arrives this year1, and the wings of a grand new adventure will spread widely across the next three expansions.2 Be a part of the epic story that commemorates the first 20 years of World of Warcraft and sets new foundations for Azeroth's future!2 

Join Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Associate Art Director Tina Wang as they sit down with Community Manager and host Bethany Stout to take you into The War Within™.

Public Alpha testing for The War Within, the tenth World of Warcraft expansion, is about to begin. Ahead of this important development milestone, Wccftech joined a roundtable Q&A session featuring Blizzard's Michael Bybee (Production Director on all World of Warcraft), Sean McCann (Senior Content Designer), and several colleagues from the press for an hour-long conversation.

This month, the “Darkness Unleashed” Update arrives in Arkesia, and with it the Thaemine Legion Raid, new Transcendence progression system, Veskal Guardian Raid, and so much more!

People constantly debate who the strongest and weakest Avengers are, both by those in the Marvel Universe and by fans trying to argue their favourite character’s case. But, of course, every Avenger has strengths and weaknesses. While some may be physically stronger, others find their strength in their intelligence or sarcasm. So, who is the strongest Avenger?

Ghost of Tsushima is the first PlayStation-made game to utilize PS features like Trophies and Friends lists on PC.

An unofficial Star Wars horror game has showed us what a zombie apocalypse would be like in a galaxy far, far away, and it's just as disturbing as you're expecting. 

Star Wars Outlaws will have an optional Ultrawide display to make it "one of the most cinematic games of all time."

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is set to introduce a bunch of new characters to the long-running franchise, from Owen Teague's primate protagonist Noa to Freya Allan's human Mae. It'll also welcome a new villain, too: Kevin Durand's Proximus Caesar. 

While not all of us engage in the eternal console war and lose our minds when PlayStation owners are given the opportunity to play older Xbox exclusives, odds are you have a favorite. Whether it was the console you've decided to hang your hat on this generation, or it was simply what was available and you've grown to love it. There are ways you can rep your favorite outside of talking them up whenever you get the chance, and the latest of those ways is via a new Puma x PlayStation collection.

A bloody new trailer has arrived for Blood of Zeus season 2, which sees an all-out battle for ultimate rule of the heavens.

Fansipan just dropped its latest title, Mutant Llama, which is as wacky as it sounds. It’s a free-to-play casual idle game with elements of creature collection and battles. Fansipan has previously brought us titles like Shadow Knight: Ninja Game War, Family Farming: My Island Life, Stickman Survivor: Epic Soul and Summoners Era: Idle RPG Heroes.

The lineup of Lego Star Wars sets for May 4 (e.g. Star Wars Day) has been revealed, and it includes kits I have waited years to get my hands on.

Star Wars Outlaws is not out for a few more months, but as the release date slowly approaches, the game's ESRB rating summary revealed that a popular and nearly-forgotten card game is set to return as a playable mini-game.

Somehow, I'd managed to miss the Helldivers 2 Factory Striders the first time around, but it seems that my time living in ignorance has come to an end. A new report claims that the monstrous, bot-spewing machines are back, and in far bigger numbers than ever before.

The ESRB rating for Star Wars Outlaws has arrived, and while it's largely what you'd expect from an action game in the sci-fi franchise, it has revealed one notable detail: Sabacc is finally going to be playable in a Star Wars video game.

Ubisoft confirms that buying the expensive Star Wars Outlaws special editions will not be the only way to experience Jabba the Hutt missions in the upcoming game. 

Ubisoft has commented on the controversy surrounding Star Wars Outlaws after it was revealed that one of its missions will be behind a paywall from day one. Ubisoft argues that the mission in question, Jabba's Gambit, is "optional", defending the decision to lock it to a season pass.

Summoners, can you believe it’s been 10 years already? Yes, Summoners War: Sky Arena is hitting its 10-year mark! A whole decade has flown by and Com2uS is rolling out a hefty update to celebrate Summoners War: Sky Arena 10th Anniversary.

Star Wars Outlaws will feature a Jabba the Hutt mission, but it's locked behind the game's season pass.

Ubisoft has responded to the ongoing backlash against the Star Wars Outlaws season pass, insisting Jabba the Hutt is part of the experience for all players.