Ion Hazzikostas

After the World of Warcraft What's Next panel, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas took 10 minutes out of his busy schedule to talk (briefly) with BlizzCon hosts Michelle Morrow and Alex Albrecht about the upcoming patch, Tides of Vengeance.

Now that we're finally past the launch of Battle for Azeroth and patch 8.1 is on the PTR for testing, Ion Hazzikostas sat down with Forbes Magazine and did an interview post-mortem on the launch and how Blizzard feels it went.

Just to be frank, I've had difficulties with Azerite Armor pieces.

Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Community Manager Josh Allen did a Q&A today to address everything from balance hotfixes, scaling issues, and Azerite gear being locked to whoever looted it.

Patch 8.0 brought together several changes to player stats, mob scaling, and sharding (the technical wizardry used to separate players).

There was an IGN stream at this year's E3 with World of Warcraft Production Director John Hight, and a slip of the tongue made there has gained so much traction that Ion Hazzikostas had to deny it on last Thursday's live Q&A on the Warcraft Twitch channel.

In last week's Battle for Azeroth alpha update, several players noticed that combat felt a bit...

You probably have questions about Battle for Azeroth, right?

Blizzard is shoveling coal into the Battle For Azeroth hype train's engines.

As they plan a new expansion, the World of Warcraft developers look at the current expansion's systems.