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Diablo III’s Darkening of Tristram ‘retrovision’ anniversary event is live

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Classic ARPG Diablo has made its presence known across Blizzard's many franchises this week as it celebrates its 20th birthday, from a new cow level...

MMO Year in Review: New Eden free-for-all (November 2016)

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This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
Overpowered.

Perfect Ten: Biggest MMORPG surprises of 2016

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Back at the beginning of December, I posted a list of what I considered to be the biggest MMORPG stories of 2016. However, there...
FEEL THE NOISE

The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day

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Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...

25000 people have signed up for the new Nostalrius server so far

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According to a tweet by the original folks behind Nostalrius, the new version of the World of Warcraft classic emulator has already (or only,...

Elysium gears up for Nostalrius emu character transfers and relaunch

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Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a threat, demanding that the game studio create official vanilla...
It also featured fewer Dwarven Shaman, simply because the WIldhammer just did their own things.

Nostalrius is resurrecting next week. Your move, Blizzard.

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After a yearlong saga that involved the shutdown of an illegal World of Warcraft emulator, fan outcry, Blizzard's high-profile meet-and-greet with the emulator's devs,...
Everybody dies.

WoW Factor: Looking forward to World of Warcraft 7.2

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It's been a little while, friends, but that happens. Last time I was making bets about what we'd see for World of Warcraft at...
Oh. Good.

The Daily Grind: Will players always trump NPCs as MMO PvP adversaries?

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Prolific MOP commenter Sally Bowls posted a note last week that stood out to me as something we should all be seriously considering. Most...
Yes, yes it is.

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016

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As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...

Global Chat: Recapturing the MMO magic

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I suspect that much of the willingness of players to pour money into MMO Kickstarters is out of a strong desire to see games...
It was a different time.

World of Warcraft datamining points to new WoW Token use in patch 7.1.5

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Do you remember BlizzCon 2016? It was just a couple of weeks ago, surely you do. One of the topics on discussion was letting...

World of Warcraft’s post-BlizzCon debrief

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It's safe to say that Ion Hazzikostas has emerged as the face of World of Warcraft's development team, particularly following his rundown of all...
Are we doing the time warp?

Leaderboard: How would you rate BlizzCon 2016?

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During this past week's podcast, Justin, Eliot, and I debated the overall tenor of BlizzCon 2016 -- and found it more or less lacking....
Everyone expects

Blizzard discusses the failings of the Sombra ARG for Overwatch

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The ARG surrounding Sombra's reveal in Overwatch was a bit dicey, even if you overlook stuff like players hacking other player accounts out of...
THIS IS ALL YOU GET

Massively OP Podcast Episode 90: BlizzConcerns

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Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss BlizzCon 2016, WoW's new cadence, Diablo III's content plans, the Nostalrius legacy server standoff, Funcom's financials, and Revelation Online.

Blizzard co-founder returns to the company after a 12-year absence

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Over the past weekend of BlizzCon news, you might have heard someone exclaim, "Oh my goodness, Allen Adham has come back to Blizzard!" This...

The Daily Grind: Can WoW really keep up a rapid content cadence?

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At this weekend's BlizzCon, Blizzard reps reiterated to fans and journalists alike that while the company is already working on the next World of...
It's all gone to hell!

MMO Week in Review: BlizzCon 2016 (November 6, 2016)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! This...

Nostalrius releases WoW emu source code to community, Elysium plans Nostalrius shards

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Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the now-sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a vague threat. "If Blizzard doesn’t make an announcement...

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