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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.

Blizzard cans another secret game after two years of development, this one a StarCraft shooter

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Add another game to Blizzard's development graveyard. According to Gamespot, the World of Warcraft studio decided to cancel an unannounced game project that has been...
Wake-up bomb.

Desert Oasis: Comparing Black Desert and Blade & Soul’s design philosophies

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One of my favorite MMO stories is how I got into Black Desert in the first place. It was right after I tried out...
Blood flight.

World of Warcraft clarifies Battle for Azeroth season timeline, still no date for Rise of Azshara

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I don't know why since I'm not even going to play it, but not knowing when Rise of Azshara is launching for World of...

Perfect Ten: SNES games that would have made for amazing MMORPGs

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I think many of us hold a fond nostalgic torch for a specific console or computer that meant a lot to us growing up,...

WoW Classic’s test server raises level cap and reopens Arathi Basin

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After the fourth or fifth million battle over the same tiny swath of farmland, the question of "is this truly worth the bloodshed?" comes...
Well, I feel daunted.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 223: Starbase Adrift

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Justin and Bree discuss Worlds Adrift's sunset, ESO Elsweyr's launch, Starbase, FFXIV Shadowbringers, and City of Heroes, with mail on old episodes and WoW Classic blowback.

Blizzard is aiming to fix Hearthstone’s messy 14.4 patch and login problems today

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It sounds as if yesterday's Hearthstone update didn't quite go to plan. Blizzard posted the 14.4 Rise of the Mech update yesterday afternoon, with...

Massively Uplifting: Supporting St. Jude Children’s Hospital and PRIDE month

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April showers bring May flowers, but big-hearted gamers bring forth good deeds any month of the year! And May was no different. Generosity with...

Fight or Kite: First impressions of Nexon’s new multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena

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Nexon's new crossplatform multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena came out of nowhere last month and surprised everyone with a closed beta this past week. It's...
Plays well with others.

Rumor: More high-profile esports figures are leaving Blizzard within the next two weeks

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Remember just last week when the commissioner of Overwatch's premiere and eponymous league left his position? That alone was a bit of a surprise, but...

The Daily Grind: Do you let an MMO’s worst community elements determine your server selection?

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Last week, on the heels of WoW Classic's latest stress test, I saw several discussions online about popular streamers and the game: Apparently, these...

The MOP Up: China’s getting Fallout Shelter Online, and that’s not fair

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For my money (and time), the best Fallout game of the past five years has been Fallout Shelter, a mobile base builder which has...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Freestyle 2, World of Kings, Dragon Raja 2, Ragnarok Masters

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!). First up:...

One Shots: Larger than life

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If there is one thing that MMORPGs are able to do regularly and impressively, it is to give us a sense of massive scale....

The Game Archaeologist: 1998’s Mankind

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In the annals of the MMO genre, the massively multiplayer RTS has had perhaps the worst go of any variations on these online games....

The Daily Grind: Are you drawn to MMO shapeshifting classes?

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When you think about it, one of the least-represented class archetypes in MMORPGs is shapeshifters. They only pop up here and there, such as...
Kick it down the road.

Lawful Neutral: Why Josh Hawley’s lockbox regulation Senate bill is dead-on-arrival

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There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin...
We're actual size, but it seems much bigger to see.

WoW Factor: Why do people remember classic WoW being so much harder than it actually was?

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As much as there's a moment of schadenfreude in the people compiling lists specifying that no, World of Warcraft: Classic being classic is not...
Depth perception is for fools, I guess.

World of Warcraft shows off its Benthic gear while the Classic server calls a wrap on another stress test

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Want to earn your new equipment in World of Warcraft by farming for items rather than praying for drops? The new Benthic gear available in...

Not So Massively: First impressions of Conan Unconquered

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I don't have any particular attachment to Conan the Barbarian as a franchise. I'm barely even familiar with it, in fact. But I do...

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