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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.

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Massively OP Podcast Episode 260: New World needs new ideas

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Justin and Bree discuss Project Nova, Final Fantasy XIV, PAX East and the coronavirus, WoW subs, New World, and Daybreak, with mailbag topics on positive MMO stories, rogue servers, binge listening, and sandboxes.

Overwatch previews its new triple damage composition experimental mode

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As fine-tuned as Overwatch tries to be (you leave your own opinions about how successful that's been), sometimes you have to try some radical...
Hooray, no shouting LFG for hours, that's enticing.

EA becomes the latest studio to back out of a con over coronavirus concerns

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This week's Boston-based PAX East has already felt the effects of multiple companies, from Sony to Square Enix, backing out over coronavirus fears -...

Was J. Allen Brack right about fans not wanting WoW Classic?

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It was back in 2013 that now-Blizzard President J. Allen Brack issued his infamously condescending line of "You think you do, but you don't"...

Jukebox Heroes: Ten MMOs that strongly support their soundtracks

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It's one thing to put a lot of music in your MMORPG or even to release that launch-day album. It's another thing entirely to...

Ship of Heroes grants a look a new Martial Arts melee powerset in a video

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It takes a special kind of superhero to go into a fight against the forces superheroes face with nothing but your fists and feet,...

Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes welcomed me into MMOs

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As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...

Bethesda Softworks has also pulled its games from GeForce NOW

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It would appear that the GeForce Now games streaming service has lost another big publisher's support. A very brief post on the GeForce Now...

Visions of N’Zoth boosted World of Warcraft subs, but it’s lost tons since WoW Classic’s 2019 peak

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SuperData's January 2020 games industry revenue rankings are up, with only mild shakeups since December 2019. On the PC side, Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped...
When it comes.

WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – The Burning Crusade

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So it seems pretty likely at this point that we are going to keep going through the various World of Warcraft expansions with Classic servers...
Yip?

Massively Overthinking: How essential are hardcore gamers to an MMO’s health?

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Last week, there was a positively eyebrow-raising thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit that tied neatly into the overall MMORPG meta discussion many...
Phun phor the phamily.

Vague Patch Notes: Phantasy Star Online 2 might be in a better place than you think

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A couple years back (this being the definition where "a couple" means "I can't remember precisely how many"), I was talking with a friend...
You look trustworthy, join our party!

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has an encrypted alpha build out now

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Blizzard would probably like it if people stopped talking about how the latest World of Warcraft patch is not very good, or how Warcraft III: Reforged...
We got it back, after all.

Perfect Ten: Dead MMOs resurrected via rogue servers

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Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...
Prepare for bear.

Blizzard appears to have quietly launched a WoW Classic PTR

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We're all very accustomed to the test realm for World of Warcraft usually showing off every facet of a patch well in advance, sometimes taking...
More like Dia-BLOWs, right?

A LinkedIn profile adds more fuel to the Diablo animated series fire

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The rumor about a Diablo animated series has been running for ages now, and the latest bit of evidence that this is a real thing comes...

The Daily Grind: Does an MMO’s economy ever stop you from going back?

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I've written before about MMO economies and how badly handled inflation can wreck them because it's one of my pet favorite topics, but the...
Doom approaches.

Blackwing Lair’s first kill in WoW Classic happened less than an hour after the raid went live

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Technically, there was another race for a world first clear last week in World of Warcraft, specifically in WoW Classic with the opening of...
We're doing great, promise.

Acti-Blizzard games vanished from GeForce NOW over a ‘misunderstanding,’ Nvidia says

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Last week we reported on the sudden removal of Activision-Blizzard titles from GeForce Now, the streamed games service offered by Nvidia, with barely an...

Wolcen muddles through ongoing online server issues to mixed reviews and an active playerbase

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The optional co-op (co-optional?) ARPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, which released on Steam last week, has had a bit of a rough go of...

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