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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Overwatch’s Eichenwalde map and Season 2 are live (gg ez)
Last night's Overwatch patch was hard to miss: It introduces a brand-new map, Eichenwalde, and implemented competitive play season 2 -- almost a week...
The Daily Grind: How would you judge WoW Legion’s launch?
MMORPG launches seldom go to plan. Trainwrecks are inevitable. Never spend a vacation day on an MMO release date -- that's the conventional wisdom.
And...
World of Warcraft lets players experiment with classes before boosting
Players paralyzed with indecision over which class to boost to level 100 in World of Warcraft now have a way to sort out their...
Overwatch plans freebie weekend on console starting September 9th
Overwatch has a free-play weekend coming up for those five gamers out there who don't yet own the game -- at least if they're...
World of Warcraft previews the max-level zone of Suramar
Four out of the five big new zones in Legion can be entered at any level and will scale up or down appropriately. But...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Legion, part two
When last we left off, the world was screwed. World of Warcraft: Legion doesn't tell you that you're facing a huge threat, it just...
The Daily Grind: Do you play MMORPGs as a single main character or as a stable?
Long ago, I used to be a two-character kind of MMORPG player. I had a main, and then later I'd make a chief alt,...
Global Chat: How should studios sunset MMOs?
When it comes time for whatever reason to put an MMORPG to pasture, how should a studio do it? For Brian "Psychochild" Green, this...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 80: Enter the Legion
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Guild Wars 2, RIFT, Trove, EverQuest II, Wargaming, Funcom, Star Citizen, SOTA, and TERA, with mailbag questions on gaming/life balance and dungeon bookmarks.
Someone is already 110 in WoW Legion, plus faction roadblocks for old Druids
If you were a Druid eagerly looking forward to World of Warcraft: Legion who also had a particularly odd set of pre-expansion decisions, you...
Happy World of Warcraft: Legion launch day and roundup
The time is here. After a few weeks of fighting against demonic invasions, World of Warcraft players can access the Broken Isles and start...
The Daily Grind: What are your first impressions of Legion?
Well, it's here. World of Warcraft: Legion has been out in the US for five hours now (more for Europeans!), which in internet time is more...
New report says South Korean MMORPG companies are ‘facing a crisis’
The Financial Times blog has a doom-and-gloom report out this week on the gaming market of South Korea, specifically the MMO genre.
"The country’s online...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Legion, part one
It was around the time that I was burning my way through drakes that I found myself nodding in appreciation. This was it, I...
World of Warcraft: Legion launch trailer and launch schedule
Tick, tock.
World of Warcraft's Legion expansion drops in eight hours for EU players, 17 in the US -- which of course is the middle of...
The MOP Up: Going on a pirate hunt (August 28, 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...
World of Warcraft’s Stormheim stars you in a Norse epic
If you are fascinated with World of Warcraft's winged Vrykrul, then your first stop in the Legion leveling process should definitely be Stormheim. The...
The Game Archaeologist: The silent world of Tibia
If I were to tell you that there's a Western MMO out there that's as old as Ultima Online and yet still has a...
WoW Factor: Sticking the landing of the Legion expansion
Next week, folks, it's go time. The expansion arrives, and so forth. My impressions of the expansion will start going out on Monday, but...
Superdata’s July 2016 data show Guild Wars 2 surging, Pokemon Go on top
Superdata's July report on online gaming revenues is in, and there are some predictable bits and some surprises. On the P2P MMO front, the...
