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Major gaming studio, responsible for World of Warcraft and the Warcraft franchise, Diablo III and the Diablo franchise, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch.

Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s radically casual new endgame

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Today we're going to be dusting off Second Wind, a column where we revisit MMOs of the past. It's an older column, sir, but...
it's not even on a teevee

Global Chat: How much is Fallout 76 benefiting from Amazon’s Fallout series?

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MMO blog Tales of the Aggronaut looked at the recent phenomenon of Amazon's popular Fallout series and any correlating increase in the games' populations,...
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: There’s probably never going to be a World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’

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As I always do when discussing World of Warcraft (and anything else, really), I am putting my cards on the table here: I am...

Diablo IV’s upcoming loot patch will ‘fundamentally change how you engage with items’

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Promising "the biggest update to Diablo IV since its launch," Blizzard said that Season 4: Loot Reborn will deliver many "evergreen" improvements to core...

The Daily Grind: Are you a map completionist in MMOs?

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A few weeks ago, my husband was playing Guild Wars 2, and suddenly he sat back and declared that he'd finally, after all these...
Also, let's just put this out there, how about more robots?

Into the Super-Verse: A toast to City of Heroes’ 20th birthday

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How does you mark your first true MMO experience? Anarchy Online technically was the first MMO I ever played, although I was on dial-up,...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever

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As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...

Diablo IV’s S4 Loot Reborn launches on May 14th – here’s what’s in it

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All right, Diablo IV fans, this is it: the loot overhaul you've been waiting for. Blizzard formally announced today that D4's fourth season -...

WoW Classic Cataclysm patch notes are up ahead of tonight’s prepatch launch

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So we've been over the fact that World of Warcraft fans will find that WoW Classic is rolling plenty of hashtag ch-ch-ch-changes into Cataclysm...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 467: The end of an ArcheAge

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Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge's sunset, the cancellation of BlizzCon 2024, Escape from Tarkov's no good very bad day, Age of Water's early access launch, and the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Fallout 4, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on defensive characters in MMOs and whether Crowfall has any kind of future.

Blizzard recaps #SomeChanges coming in today’s WoW Classic’s Cataclysm prepatch

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Everyone's long since given up on #NoChanges, right? We've all just accepted that World of Warcraft Classic was never #NoChanges and was always going...

Blizzard laid off prolific World of Warcraft writer and lore queen Christie Golden

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Among the many people affected by Blizzard's massive layoffs in 2024 was Christie Golden, the rare games writer whose name a whole lot of...

The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘old-school’ MMORPGs?

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One of the topics that comes up every year come award time is how we decided which MMORPGs are old enough - whether by...

One Shots: …and that’s how I became hoarse

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While you may be completely freaked out when confronting an enemy six times your size, it's important not to show fear. In fact, one...

Hearthstone’s latest balance patch focuses on nerfing cards that ‘remove player agency’

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If you've played a collectible card game of any stripe, you're probably familiar with card combos and deck strategies that effectively make it impossible...
Dudes

The Daily Grind: What’s the 2024 expansion that has you the most excited?

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While the launch dates for upcoming MMORPGs are a tricky and uncertain affair, what's more assured is an array of expansions that are on...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?

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Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...
don't you have phones

World of Warcraft is retiring the Companion App as it looks forward to the Cataclysm Classic conversion

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If you're still salty about being asked this ages ago, don't worry, World of Warcraft fans. Blizzard no longer cares if you have a...
See, not all things are the same.

As Warcraft turns 30, Blizzard has preemptively canceled BlizzCon for 2024

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Well, you can read the headline: There's no BlizzCon this year after all, in spite of the fact that this is Warcraft's 30th anniversary...
WRONG!

Vague Patch Notes: When MMO designers build traps for players

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So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very...

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