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A community-run Pride event in World of Warcraft is getting officially supported in patch 12.0.5

Regular fans of World of Warcraft are probably familiar with the annual Running of the Trolls, a community-led charity event that both celebrates Pride month and helps to raise money for The Trevor Project. Well, it looks like the 2026 version is getting official backing from Blizzard, as it’s being made an in-game event in patch […]
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World of Warcraft’s Holly Longdale speaks to future development: ‘We want to add dazzle to it’

Recently, World of Warcraft Executive Producer Holly Longdale sat down to do one of those fluffy interviews where much was said about the future of the game, almost all of it being very non-committal. You know those kinds of interviews? I think Blizzard gives its staff seminars on how to conduct them. In any case, […]
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One Shots: Presenting Sir Flufferbottom of Little Delving

Many of the bravest souls emerged from Lord of the Rings Online’s Shire — but it is less-well-known that some of the fluffiest butts also came from this pastoral paradise. Ladies and gentlemen and Free Folk of Middle-earth, presenting… Sir Flufferbottom of Little Delving! “I have my goat and my flowery outfit, time to talk […]
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Massively Overthinking: Is there a specific year of MMOs you’re glad you lived through?

This week’s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by something MOP reader Zulika said last month in comments about Smed’s new MMOFPS. “More and more I am just glad past me was around to experience MMOs starting in 2000.” OK, obviously Zulika was throwing deserved shade on some of 2025’s excesses, but let’s talk about more […]
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Vague Patch Notes: The ‘eternal now’ era of MMORPGs

So there was a fun meme that was going around about four years ago in which an image of Final Fantasy IV was posted as “what people think Final Fantasy looked like 20 years ago,” followed by a picture of Final Fantasy X as “what Final Fantasy actually looked like 20 years ago.” Of course, now it’s […]
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WoW Factor: Welcome to the age of Midnight

Here’s the crazy thing: It’s October 2025, and it already feels as though World of Warcraft: The War Within is completely over at one year and one month after its launch in August 2024. Back when the Worldsoul Saga was first announced, Blizzard said that these expansions would come faster than normal — but I […]
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World of Warcraft tackles Legion Remix problems and Midnight’s next alpha phase

It’s been quite the rollercoaster of a week for World of Warcraft — and I’m not merely talking “ups” and “downs.” There were helixes and spirals and some unintended brake runs where too much lag infested the new Legion Remix mode. To help with the performance, the studio did a server reset last night. But […]
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