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 162: The Morninglight wants you
Justin and Bree discuss Project Gorgon, RIFT, Trove, Secret World Legends' South Africa, ArcheAge's progression servers, Black Desert on Xbox One, World of Warcraft, and Bless, with mailbag entries on classic Guild Wars and RIFT Prime.
GDC 2018: Game developers push for unionization in Game Workers Unite
Back in 2016, we covered the voice actors guild strike against multiple game companies in its an attempt to secure better compensation and working...
GDC 2018: Hearthstone’s Witchwood goes monster hunting
Massively OP is at GDC 2018 this year, and like Hearthstone, we're kicking things off with a bang: with monster hunting! No, not the dino-esque...
Leaderboard: Do you speculate on WoW Tokens or other legal MMO RMT currency?
Is Call of Duty the next Activision franchise to migrate to Battlenet? Very likely. As Eurogamer broke earlier this month, players are now able...
The MOP Up: Enter the Phantom Halls — if you dare! (March 18, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
One Shots: Don’t you forget about me
I think that we can all agree that Hirku seems like he'd be a pretty fun-loving dude to hang out with in World of...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood pandemic
It began with an exploitable glitch. It exploded into an uncontained nightmare of death. It established a meme as strong as Leeroy Jenkins. It...
Blizzard teases decks in Hearthstone and characters in Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm
It's time for a whole lot of new characters to smash into the fray in Blizzard's various multiplayer offerings. Hearthstone doesn't have characters, per...
World of Warcraft confirms that Mag’har Orcs and Kul Tiran Humans are joining the allied races
The rumors and speculation are true, according to the most recent World of Warcraft live Q&A. Ion Hazzikostas revealed that both Mag'har and Kul...
Massively Overthinking: The war on MMO chat toxicity
This week, The Ancient Gaming Noob posted up an image of RIFT Prime, where Trion asks people to... play nice. "Just a neighborly reminder...
WoW Factor: The Kul Tiran Druid ‘problem’ in World of Warcraft
One of the important things to note about World of Warcraft lore is that it's never been static. It will retcon itself six ways...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth opens up island expeditions for testing
One of the big features of World of Warcraft's next expansion is available for testing now, the island expeditions. If you've wondered what it'll...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth sells physical pre-purchases in Europe
Why would somebody want to pick up a physical box with a digital game code inside of it in 2018? It's hard to say,...
Hearthstone announces The Witchwood expansion with Blair Witch-esque video
Speculate no more: Blizzard just announced Hearthstone's next expansion right smack on Twitter. It's called The Witchwood, and it launches in April.
"Be warned, the...
Blizzard’s Overwatch League addresses toxicity with fines and suspensions, while the Dallas Fuel drops a toxic player
Last week, we covered an ESPN piece in which the author called out Blizzard for sitting on its hands after an Overwatch League player...
Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 4
We are getting right down to it in our look at the top 32 best World of Warcraft tracks. In today's column, we'll be...
First impressions of RIFT’s Prime progression server
The best word to describe what was happening on the launch day of RIFT Prime was "surreal." It was absolutely surreal to see crowds...
WoW Factor: Examining the composition of the Horde
Last week, we looked at the composition of the Alliance in World of Warcraft. This week, we're looking at the Horde. Makes sense, doesn't...
Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?
This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...
