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.
blizzard entertainment
Destiny has 25 million registered users
The news from the most recent Activision financial report was not rosy for all online gaming fans, but it looks quite positive for Destiny...
War is coming: Check out the Warcraft movie trailer teaser
What's 45% of your MMO playerbase lost in less than a year when you have a blockbuster movie on the way?
https://twitter.com/warcraftmovie/status/661573910094155776
Eh, the clip is a...
Blizzard secures rights to Overwatch’s name
Overwatch's tagline is, "The world needs heroes." If we might amend that motto in light of a recent story, it should add "...but no more...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2015: World of Warcraft drops 100K subs, Actibliz buys Candy Crush dev for $5.9B
Strange things are afoot at Blizzard Activision.
Even while the studio is preparing for BlizzCon and the trailer reveal for the Warcraft movie, it announced...
Not So Massively: LoL pro Doublelift kicked from e-sports team (November 2, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
The Warcraft movie gets a teaser for a teaser
What's up, Warcraft movie? Long time no talk. Oh look, your Twitter feed has a teaser for a teaser! It says that "enemies will...
One Shots: Rainbow glory
Even the grimdark world of Diablo III has a cute, rainbow-colored side... and reader Zulika is the one to take us through the wardrobe...
Jukebox Heroes: An MMO Halloween playlist
Halloween is upon us, that spooky and magical time of year that exists both in real life and in many of our MMOs. While...
The Game Archaeologist: Seed
Seed is a game that I thought I must have dreamed up at some point. Do you ever have that happen? For years I...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Moral panic and online griefing
Welcome back to our ongoing exploration of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt’s book The Video Game Debate. As you can guess, the book itself focuses...
Perfect Ten: Ten really great races from MMOs
Here I go, here I go, here I go again. Girls, what's my weakness? Non-human races. But oh, so many MMOs let me down...
Take part in a BlizzCon auction for charity starting November 4th
Do you have a deep need to grab some rare Blizzard memorabilia? Do you have a large amount of disposable income? Do you want...
The Daily Grind: Do you think Blizzard will ever make another MMO?
So Overwatch is now in closed beta, which I imagine excites some people immensely. Any Blizzard product has that effect, I've noticed. But when...
World of Warcraft highlights the haunted places of Azeroth
There's a lot of ghostly stuff in World of Warcraft. Some of it, of course, is quite obvious. You fight a lot of ghosts,...
Overwatch knocks down the closed beta door
Heroes, suit up: Overwatch's closed beta test for both North America and Europe is now live.
While the test for the superhero-themed multiplayer shooter has commenced,...
Not So Massively: Destiny’s development woes (October 26, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Overwatch’s closed beta starts tomorrow
Good news for Blizzard fans: Players might get a shot of seeing the studio's newest game a little sooner than expected, as Overwatch is...
The MOP Up: The secret history of Destiny (October 25, 2015)
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...
WoW Factor: A decade of Blizzard’s bad habits
The funny thing about World of Warcraft - and I should note here that I'm using "funny" in this case as a synonym for...
Massively Overthinking: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and MMO raiding in 2015
Here we are in October, sandwiched between WildStar's F2P conversion and Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns launch, and it seems as if we're...
