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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Global Chat: Your complete LOTRO wedding guide
Is your mind whirling with all of the things to do with Lord of the Rings Online's new Midsummer Festival and the associated wedding...
The Daily Grind: If you had to start over with a new MMO account, what would you miss most?
Over the past month, I've been chronicling how I started adventuring on a brand-new World of Warcraft account after gifting my old one to...
World of Warcraft warns that ‘time runs short’ to prepare for Shadowlands
Time is running short to get ready for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands -- or so Blizzard would have you believe.
While there is no set...
Massively Overthinking: Contemplating the never-ending summer of not-E3
A couple of weeks back, I was reading a piece on RPS that jokingly lamented the way the game reveals of this summer have...
StarCraft II begins testing patch 5.0 with major co-op shake-up and new achievements
StarCraft II is preparing to celebrate its tenth anniversary, with patch 5.0 hitting the PTR with a wealth of new features. The biggest news here...
SuperData June 2020: Valorant had the ‘biggest launch ever for a free-to-play PC title’
It's time for our monthly check-in on how the games industry is doing according to SuperData's numbers, and don't worry - they're all still...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s outlook in the lead-up to Crimson Desert
I've played nothing but the Black Desert season servers in the last month. It's such a fresh breath of air, and it's something I...
World of Warcraft connects two EU realms while planning its Heroic raid testing for Shadowlands
It's almost time to make sure that heroic raids are sufficiently... well, whatever they're supposed to be in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It can't...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 280: Middle-earth practices social distancing
Justin and Bree discuss Funcom, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Nexon, No Man's Sky, and Skull and Bones, with adventures in LOTRO, Hearthstone, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on fidelity to artistic vision and phasing vs. immersion.
Not So Massively: Online ARPGs are the pizza of gaming
I spend a lot of time thinking about online ARPGs these days. It's always been a genre I've enjoyed, and since taking over the...
World of Warcraft has been post-Pandaria longer than it has been pre-Pandaria (in the EU)
When dealing with a long-running MMO, it's easy to sort its history into eras based on expansions. But it's also good to remember that...
Warframe of Mind: A history of TennoCon reveals, from The War Within to Heart of Deimos
I don't know about you, but there was a certain sadness hanging in the air on July 11th as I sat home instead of...
The MOP UP: Star Wars Galaxies Legends invites new players to a server far, far away
Thinking about getting into that Star Wars Galaxies that all your friends have been pressuring you to play since 2003? The Legends rogue server...
Global Chat: What gets us grumpy in MMOs
Whoever said "always look on the bright side of life" obviously never talked to gamers, because we are a notorious bunch for looking at...
World of Warcraft retools Shadowlands’ conduit destruction
Just because Shadowlands is sailing around in the bay of beta right now doesn't mean that World of Warcraft's developers aren't above taking the...
One Shots: Private retreats
Where do you go to get away from it all in an MMORPG? If you look hard enough, you might find a special private...
Into the Super-verse: Seven tips for designing amazing MMO superhero costumes
While we all know that the real endgame in any MMORPG is fashion, superhero titles take this much further than the rest of the...
The Soapbox: Where does WoW need to go beyond Shadowlands?
This expansion hype cycle, I've heard more about how to customize your character and less about raids than any other WoW expansion in recent memory, and I can't see that as anything other than good.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has officially moved into its beta testing phase
The bells have tolled, the signal fires have been lit, and the time is upon us: World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is now officially in...
Nexon has shut down its California studio, canceling at least one PC title
Nexon's main western studio is no more, as the gaming giant closed down its Irvine location this week and canceled the projects that teams...
