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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Not So Massively: Grey Goo’s $75k tournament, Nexon’s LawBreakers
Valve announced that Dota 2's Reborn update will be released to the live servers in the next few weeks. Online RTS Grey Goo launched...
Here are a ton of tidbits about World of Warcraft: Legion
You've got questions about World of Warcraft: Legion. Of course you do. And Blizzard knows that it's got you on the hook, which is...
The MOP Up: Blizzard belongs in a museum!
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: Lucasfilm’s Habitat
Some of you reading this may simply never have known a world before the internet existed by virtue of your age. It's not your...
ESPN is hiring an e-sports editor
Remember a year or so ago when ESPN CEO John Skipper created a minor stink in the nerdosphere by pooh-poohing e-sports and intimating that...
Heroes of the Storm to downsize ranked match party size
The size of parties queuing for Heroes of the Storm's ranked play will be downsized come the next patch, Blizzard has announced.
A short post on...
Perfect Ten: The 10 MMO memories we all have
I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12Â years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...
Ask Mo: The state of Massively Overpowered
Ask Mo is back, and today Mo and I are answering a few meta questions about Massively OP itself. Our first question is from long-time...
The Daily Grind: What are your fall MMO gaming plans?
Hope you had a good summer, 'cause it's pretty much over. Yes ma'am, we're staring right into the pumpkin spice corridor known as "fall,"...
Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time
In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...
World of Warcraft welcomes players back to the skies
It's been a good while since World of Warcraft players have been able to fly in high-level zones, but as of today the skies...
Russian site leaks 40 seconds of the Warcraft movie trailer
World of Warcraft fans continue to eagerly await the release of the Warcraft movie trailer in a couple of months. If they -- or...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO testing experience you’ve ever had?
I know I'm not alone in feeling beta-fatigue. I hear the same things I feel from you folks in our comments and from our...
Not So Massively: HOTS’ ranking woes, LoL’s server move problems
League of Legends finished setting up its new North American server in Chicago, reducing ping times for east coast players but dramatically increasing them...
WoW’s 6.2.2 patch launches tomorrow
If you're still playing World of Warcraft, you may or may not be aware that the game's 6.2.2 patch debuts on September 1st. It...
WoW Factor: Wild guessing about Demon Hunters
So what's the deal with World of Warcraft's Demon Hunter? We just don't know yet. But the space to speculate is pretty awesome.
I mentioned...
Eco as an academic tool: Educating with PvE survival and permadeath
Like the idea of survival games, but not PvP? Wish your class involved video games? Maybe you want to doom humanity to choking itself...
Guild Chat: Finding MMO fun without your guildmates
Good news, everyone: I'm back with an unexpected edition of Guild Chat for you! Observant Massively Overpowered readers might have noticed that I rotate...
Blizzard joins S&P 500 stock market index
If it wasn't clear before now, Blizzard's debut on a stock index further goes to show that the game studio is one of the...
Perfect Ten: Amazing MMO cosplay
I have nothing but deep respect for cosplayers because on two levels they are performing activities that I cannot. First of all, they put...
