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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The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest MMO peripheral you’ve ever seen?
Massively OP is heading to GDC this year, which means we're being deluged by PR from techware and software companies that'll be on site....
Massively Overthinking: MMOs belong in a museum!
Let's talk game preservation. We've been covering MADE's attempt to convince the government to tweak its interpretation of the DMCA to basically allow museums,...
World of Warcraft emulators forge forward in a post-Classic announcement era
Curious about what's going to happen to all of those World of Warcraft legacy emulators with WoW Classic on the way? It doesn't look...
Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan explains Brigitte’s design, while Hi-Rez implies she’s a Paladins ripoff
If you're the analytical type, you probably started formulating a playstyle for Overwatch's upcoming hero Brigitte as soon as you read about her abilities...
World of Warcraft’s Seething Shore is a new battleground available now
The next expansion for World of Warcraft is going to have a lot of focus on the faction conflict, so why not get geared...
Battle Bards Episode 116: There be dragons
Mighty and majestic, scaly in hide and shrewd of mind, smoking with fury unabated… these are the Battle Bards! Also, dragons. Yes, in today’s...
Hearthstone is planning three expansions for 2018’s Year of the Raven
Watching any Hearthstone video is always a weird experience for me since Blizzard's Ben Brode looks and sounds and acts exactly like my brother-in-law,...
Overwatch gives love to old heroes and reveals Brigitte in new origin video
Yesterday's Overwatch patch was all about the love -- at least, if you care about Mei, Sombra, and Doomfist. The three characters each got...
SuperData says ‘pay-to-play’ MMOs declined again in January 2018
SuperData published its January recap of the worldwide digital games market this week, and the analytics firm doesn't have much good to say for...
Heroes of the Storm is testing balance changes for Sonya and Medivh
The next patch for Heroes of the Storm is arriving on March 6th, but you can test the patch on the test server until...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 159: Panda punching
Justin and Bree discuss all the new stuff coming in March, plus news from TERA, RIFT Prime, H1Z1, Black Desert, Guild Wars 2, and secret projects, with mailbag questions on the fast pace of the site and MMO terminology.
MMO Business Roundup: EA Spouse 14 years later, PUBG poaching from Riot, and Funcom financials
Welcome back to another edition of our informal business roundup, where we wedge all the fun MMO industry tidbits that pile up in our...
World of Warcraft has a new PvP talent UI and (possibly) no Zandalari paladins in Battle for Azeroth
It's important to note at this point that World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth has not yet revealed the classes for Zandalari or Dark...
Overwatch posts an in-universe letter hinting at its next hero
So, who's the next hero for Overwatch? We don't know yet, but there's plenty of room for speculation... and there's a little more food...
Warcraft movie director says the production experience was ‘traumatic’
During an interview with SyFy about his upcoming movie, Duncan Jones dishes on his experience directing the 2016 Warcraft film based in the universe...
Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 3
In our third part of this five-part countdown of World of Warcraft's best music (at least, you know, in my opinion), we'll be heading...
One Shots: The Elvish temptation
I'm sorry to have to begin this week's column with a public service announcement, but this has been a long time coming. Friends, beware...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Mac
In 2003, Sony Online Entertainment tried an experiment to reach out to the (then) small-but-growing community of Mac users. The company released EverQuest Macintosh...
The latest World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth build brings even more hints of Mag’har Orcs
We don't yet have all of the allied races promised to us for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth available in the test builds....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most useless crafting system?
Yesterday Blizzard Watch's Anne Stickney penned a wee piece on crafting in World of Warcraft whose title just grabbed me. "Are you still crafting...