The MMORPG World of Warcraft has been available on PC for many years, but an official console release has not yet happened. However, there is still a way to play WoW on consoles.
Recently, a modder known as 01cedric (@Skillsofcape) shared a short gameplay recording of WoW: Wrath of the Lich King on PlayStation 4 on social media.
01cedric announced that he released update 1.61 for the “WoWPS” project, which is dedicated to natively running World of Warcraft on a hacked PlayStation 4 console:
I have put a lot of effort and sleepless nights into this project to bring it to a state where it runs without major crashes and performance issues.
The modder emphasizes that WoWPS is not a streaming client or an emulator of the PC version of the game, but a native client for PlayStation 4: “It is written in C++ and compiled for the console's hardware, using a custom Vulkan 1.0 driver that runs on top of low-level console GNM/VideoOut.”
01cedric published the source code of the “WoWPS” project on GitHub for everyone to replicate the experiment. There's a catch: to avoid infringing on Blizzard Entertainment's copyrights, he did not include game files in the archive – players need to provide a legal copy of the game themselves.
The gameplay recording can be viewed at the following link.
The RTS direction of the franchise is also popular. Recently, a fan-made enhanced mod campaign for Warcraft III about Sylvanas with new story content was released.