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.
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Massively Uplifting: Dragon Con and The Game Awards demonstrate the rise of awareness, accessibility, and inclusion
It is not uncommon to spend the beginning of a year reflecting back on the old while looking forward to the new. That's something...
Vague Patch Notes: The day I deleted a character in anger in Final Fantasy XI
Today, I'd like to tell you about how your characters in MMOs aren't real, and you know that, but I want you to think...
World of Warcraft game designer shares the full backstory of the Mists of Pandaria Warlock revamp
While Mists of Pandaria isn't exactly the talk of the World of Warcraft scene right now, it may be when Mists Classic is invariably...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records
I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it's somewhere between "for amusement value" and "stone cold...
Casually Classic: Is it worth playing into World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm Classic?
Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there's nothing on that would hit the...
World of Warcraft previews eight more Hero Talent Trees
If you're eager to check out the Hero Talent Trees in World of Warcraft's next expansion, well... you're going to have to wait until...
Overwatch 2 heralds more competitive players in Season 9, promises further PvP-focused improvements
The current competitive season of Overwatch 2 has apparently been well received according to the latest missive from game director Aaron Keller, who writes...
One Shots: What am I looking at here?
Sometimes a screenshot ends up in my lap that I stare at for a long time and still have no idea what's going on...
Emmy-winning composer Russell Brower talks about making Tarisland’s soundtrack
Whatever concerns or qualms you might have about Tencent's upcoming Tarisland, the soundtrack shouldn't be one of them. That's because the game signed on...
Vague Patch Notes: What does the future of MMORPGs look like?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the history of MMORPGs as a market and PC gaming in general, suggesting at...
WoW Classic Hardcore schedules self-found mode for Leap Day
It's not every year that you get a Leap Day, so why not make that bonus day a little extra special? WoW Classic is...
Overwatch 2 makes a series of character tuning updates for its latest season
With Overwatch 2 now into its hero-changing ninth season, the devs of the PvP shooter have begun the process of tuning character balance in...
WoW Classic dev explains sharding and layering strategies for Season of Discovery
As WoW Classic left #NoChanges abandoned on the side of the road hundreds of miles ago, the legacy server trekked on to forge its...
Xbox’s Phil Spencer insists Microsoft’s mass-layoffs position it for future growth, somehow
Everyone just loves Phil Spencer these days, right? Oh, right, all the layoffs. Probably not, then. But according to a recent interview with Game...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs stop making us heroes?
The other day I was watching a rather excellent 40-minute video of a RuneScape player who dived head-first into all of the versions of...
Diablo II: Resurrected sets up a new ladder season this week
It's time to go climbing that ladder into -- or is it out of? -- hell once again in Diablo II Resurrected.
Blizzard announced that...
Microsoft’s layoffs will result in over 800 cut Activision-Blizzard jobs in March
As Microsoft workers reel from news of impending mass-layoffs of 1900 employees, we've received more clarity on which specific Activision-Blizzard teams are being slashed...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG’s graphics hold up long past their due?
When Dark Age of Camelot first hit beta a million years ago, I remember being super impressed with its graphics. Up until that point,...
Argentinian World of Warcraft players say the game is ‘dead’ after January pricing changes
Argentinian fans of World of Warcraft are sounding the alarm over Blizzard's decision to change both the cost of subscription to the MMORPG and...
The Soapbox: Why I’m OK with ‘missing’ attacks in City of Heroes
The other day in the MassivelyOP work chat, we were talking about City of Heroes. Shocking, I know. But I've mentioned before that I...
