World of Warcraft




World of Warcraft MMORPGDeveloper: Blizzard Entertainment

Genre: Fantasy

Status: Released

Release Date: November 23, 2004

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Four years have passed since the aftermath of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and a great tension now smolders throughout the ravaged world of Azeroth. As the battle-worn races begin to rebuild their shattered kingdoms, new threats, both ancient and ominous, arise to plague the world once again.

World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. World of Warcraft is a "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game" which allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory.


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PC System Requirements

OS: Windows XP / Windows Vista (with latest Service Packs)

Processor:

Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2

Memory:

Minimum: 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista users)
Recommended: 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista users)

Video:

Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better
Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better

Sound: DirectX-compatible sound card or motherboard sound capability

Mac System Requirements

OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer

Processor:

Minimum: PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo processor
Recommended: Intel 1.8GHz processor or better

Memory:

Minimum: 1 GB RAM
Recommended: 2 GB RAM

Video:

Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 64 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 class card or better
Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA 7600 class card or better

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Controls: A keyboard and mouse are required. Input devices other than a mouse and keyboard are not supported.
Connectivity: You must have an active broadband Internet connection to play.
Mouse: Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel recommended.
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB free hard drive space


World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (January 2007)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (November 2008)
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (TBA)

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With World of Warcraft: Cataclysm in stores, Blizzard revealed some info on the future of its acclaimed MMORPG. A forth expansion was finally mentioned officially...

World of Warcraft: 4th expansion planned - October 25, 2010
Even though Cataclysm isn’t out yet, Blizzard is already planning the fourth expansion for World of Warcraft. John Lagrave, Senior Producer on the MMORPG, said that there’s a central theme for...

World of Warcraft: 12 million subscribers - October 8, 2010
By the start of the year, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft's subscriptions remained stale during 2009. The acclaimed MMORPG had 11.5 million subscribers.

Blizzard: naughty police in WoW - August 6, 2010
The Goldshire Inn is becoming extremely famous in the North American role-playing server Moon Guard. This is a building in the humans starting area and is attracting a lot of naughty players.

WoW movie: slow but sure - July 24, 2010
The much anticipated World of Warcraft movie is still going, but the progress has slowed. According to Blizzard’s Vice president of creative development, Chris Metzen, speaking at Comic-Con...

Sam Raimi is a WoW player - June 28, 2010
With the World of Warcraft movie in the hands of director Sam Raimi, you would expect him to know a bit about the Blizzard MMORPG. And he actually does! Sam Raimi told Collider.com...

Cross-game chat for World Of WarCraft - June 24, 2010
The latest patch for World of Warcraft includes a new tool for cross-game chat. It's called Real ID. With Real ID, friends can now chat cross-game, cross-realm, and cross-faction across all supported Blizzard games.

WoW Remote Auction House - May 20, 2010
Blizzard Entertainment will launch soon a software that allows players to access the World of Warcraft Auction House remotely, from any web browser or mobile device.

Blizzard: WoW on consoles is unlikely - March 9, 2010
The huge World of Warcraft success on PC regularly raises a valid question: what about a console version of the famous MMO? Even though they think about it all of the time, Blizzard...

WoW: Only 30% new players pass level 10 - February 15, 2010
In an investor call, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime revealed that only 30 per cent of new World of Warcraft players actually make it past level 10.

WoW: no real evolution in 2009 - February 11, 2010
World of Warcraft reached an impressive 11.5 million subscribers worldwide, this new high reached following the November 13, 2008 release of the game’s second expansion.

World of Warcraft poster contest - February 2, 2010
Blizzard is promoting a new contest for World of Warcraft. This time players are invited to go to the PrintWarcraft.com site, create one unique poster of their character...

Taiwanese player 'beats' World of Warcraft - December 25, 2009
A Taiwanese player called "Little Gray" has pretty much beaten World of Warcraft, if we can put it that way. This player from the TW-Wrathbringer guild has...

World of Warcraft Anniversary Website - November 25, 2009
Blizzard is obviously proud of the Warcraft series and as such they opened a World of Warcraft Anniversary Website. World of Warcraft is celebrating 5 years...

WoW: future is on micro-transactions - November 6, 2009
According to VG247, Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime sees a bright future for micro-transactions, something that started for World of Warcraft players with the Pet Shop.

World of Warcraft Pet Store - November 5, 2009
Blizzard enters the realm of micro-transactions with the creation of the Pet Store for World of Warcraft, a new way for players to obtain in-game pets.

WoW 5 year sweepstakes - November 4, 2009
Blizzard has every right to be proud, because this year marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of World of Warcraft on November 23, 2004.

Blizzard with dev chat on Twitter - October 20, 2009
Blizzard is going to host a developer chat with World of Warcraft’s director of production and game director on Twitter. It starts on Thursday, October 22, at 3:00 PM PDT.

WarCraft movie with Saving Private Ryan screenwriter - October 13, 2009
Sam Raimi, the director of the eagerly awaited Warcraft movie spoke with MTV News about some of the details surrounding Blizzard's adaptation to the big screen.

World of Warcraft: The numbers - September 21, 2009
There's so much needed to run a powerhouse like World of Warcraft, but sometimes we just have no idea.

World of Warcraft Faction and Race change - September 4, 2009
The new World of Warcraft Faction Change service is now live, according to Blizzard. Players will be able to change from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance for a fee.

WoW: New phishing ploy - August 29, 2009
There is a new ploy for stealing World of Warcraft accounts. Hackers are targeting players by inviting them to a fake WoW website...

World of Warcraft: The Magazine - August 20, 2009
Future and Blizzard partnered to the release of World of Warcraft: The Magazine, a new publication devoted to the leading MMO.

Two new races for WoW? - August 11, 2009
WoW.com claims that the new expansion for World of Warcraft, possibly called Cataclysm, will feature two new races: Goblin (Horde) and Worgen (Alliance).

Ozzy Osbourne at BlizzCon 2009 - August 9, 2009
Ozzy Osbourne has been confirmed as a presence at BlizzCon 2009. It's not confirmed if the Prince of Darkness will be performing at the famous convention - let's hope so!

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