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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World of Warcraft further tweaks invasion XP, gives a sneak ‘peak’ of Highmountain
More fine-tuning of World of Warcraft's demon invasions is coming today, as Blizzard said that it is making a couple of fixes to how...
Gamescom 2016: Overwatch’s Last Bastion short
Live at Gamescom today, Blizzard pushed out another animated short for Overwatch as promised. Called The Last Bastion, it covers... well... Bastion. Or uncovers him,...
Children of Ur adds localized weather
What's the weather going to be like today in your game?
You might just have to ask this if you're apt to play Children of...
Gamescom 2016: WoW Legion’s first patch, Return to Karazhan, will include 5-man Kara
At the Legion Cafe event at Gamescom today, Blizzard confirmed that World of Warcraft: Legion's first patch (7.1) will include an epic five-player dungeon...
Global Chat: Deaf gamers and MMO captioning
What is it like to play MMORPGs if you're deaf? Just ask Stars of the Spiral's Kelsey, who talks of her condition and why...
Blizzard makes radical adjustments to World of Warcraft invasion XP
What's scarier than demonic invasions raining down all across Azeroth? According to some players, it's when Blizzard removes incentive for fighting said invasions.
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Heroes of the Storm extends its first ranked season until September 13th
Do you feel an icy hand on your back as you play a match of Heroes of the Storm? If so, there are two...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 78: Hot dog!
Justin and Eliot discuss WoW, FFXIV, RIFT, No Man's Sky, Q2 financials, Path of Exile, and Trove, with mailbag questions on turn-based RPGs and console MMOs.
Gamescom 2016: Blizzard plans to show off Legion and new maps for Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm
Unless you're living in some sort of video game-proof hole, you are probably aware that the mighty Gamescom is kicking off tomorrow and running...
Overwatch stares down the barrel of buffs, nerfs, and competitive play changes
Buffs and nerfs. Nerfs and buffs. They're a fact of life in any online game, but when it comes to competitive environments, even a...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s Azsuna is a ‘broken land’
It's kind of a little strange to be reading zone previews of expansion areas, as you know that what is largely unknown and foreign...
The Daily Grind: How do you decide when MMORPG class revisions have gone too far?
A bunch of my guildies flocked back to World of Warcraft during its pre-Legion festivities. One of them mentioned in passing that he'd been...
The MOP Up: The Dota 2 forum hack (August 14, 2016)
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...
The Game Archaeologist: Six videos from MMOs that never launched
Whenever I compile lists or run articles on MMOs that never made it out of the gate, it seems as though talking about it...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most memorable MMO fight scene?
We've all been in so many fights in MMOs that they mostly blend together in a memory stew of numbers, phases, buffs, debuffs, animations,...
WoW Factor: The storm upon the Broken Shore
I sometimes get asked why I don't do more stuff within betas when I have access to them. To answer that, all I can...
The other faction’s Broken Shore cinematic in World of Warcraft can offer some lore revelations
If you've only done the Broken Shore scenario on one faction in World of Warcraft, you're missing out. Sure, you know what's going on...
Riot Games sues the makers of League of Legends hacks
Blizzard has quite happily gone after cheat-makers in court before, but now Riot Games is getting in on the act by suing the biggest...
One Night in Karazhan comes out today for Hearthstone players
Players have clamored for more to do within Karazhan for years, and the good news is that it's finally happening today. The slightly less...
World of Warcraft previews two of the dungeons of Legion
A lot is changing when World of Warcraft: Legion launches, but dungeons will work the way they always have. Of course, they will be...
