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 do you think about NPC party members in MMORPGs?
I've been thinking a lot about classic Guild Wars lately -- the anniversary always does this to me. And one of my favorite parts...
Surprise: Overwatch gives an extra day of open beta to all
Has your Twitter feed been inundated with talk about Overwatch this past weekend? You can thank Blizzard for making the game's beta open to...
World of Warcraft fan mods the restoration of Blood Elf zone Quel’Thalas
All hail the modders, doing bizarre things for our fun! Today's modding hero is a World of Warcraft fan named Hayven, whose YouTube video is...
Empyrean is building ‘MMOs you can beat’
Empyrean Interactive is coining a new acronym this season: PCA, which stands for persistent cooperative adventure, a "radically different" take on the MMO genre.
Studio...
Nostalrius team surveys community about a World of Warcraft legacy ruleset
As we've been reporting, the team from the shuttered Nostalrius World of Warcraft emulator has been appointed as "ambassadors" of a sort to represent...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite type of grind in an MMORPG?
Grind is not a thing people generally love in MMORPGs, but what's actually considered to be grind varies wildly from player to player. You...
Get a look at World of Warcraft’s new Stormwind park
Has the creation of a park in an MMORPG ever caused such excitement?
When World of Warcraft: Legion arrives at the end of August, it...
The MOP Up: Setting a VR world record (May 8, 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...
One Shots: Slipping between shadows
I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...
The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live
The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...
Heroes of the Storm previews its upcoming Chromie, Medivh, and hero skins
If you feel like Heroes of the Storm is lacking in powerful spellcasters, your reasoning isn't particularly solid, but you can take heart in...
WoW Factor: Content gaps, polish, and the Legion release date
The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2016: Activision-Blizzard posts results ahead of WoW Legion, Overwatch
Activision-Blizzard's first quarter 2016 financial report just hit the internet, and the company is declaring "better-than-expected" financial results.
"For the quarter ended March 31, 2016,...
Overwatch open beta is live until May 9th
Tired of just watching the people who get to shoot their way through Overwatch in its more selective test phases? You don't have to...
China gets the Warcraft movie two days before everyone else
Want to be among the first in the world to see the Warcraft feature film? Then you best be buying a ticket to China....
World of Warcraft kicks off Children’s Week
Are you just sitting around in your Garrison these days in World of Warcraft, waiting for the Burning Legion to stop farting about and...
The Daily Grind: Have you revisited an old MMO character lately?
The Gnome Warlock you see in the above header is the original Syp, created pre-Burning Crusade in October 2006. She's probably one of my...
Diablo III adds its five-year sword as a transmog reward
How long do you have to work at your current job before you get a sword? If you worked for Blizzard Entertainment, the answer...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry
Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
The Nostalrius team on hopes for a legacy World of Warcraft server
For those who can't get enough information about what led to the creation and maintenance of the Nostalrius World of Warcraft server, the site...
