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: How could Blizzard make World of Warcraft more appealing to former players?
Eliot's column about World of Warcraft feeling like a dead mall struck a chord with our commenters, many of whom agreed with the feels...
Call of Duty is getting a board game – with a Kickstarter planned for this fall
There's a point in the movie Spaceballs where it lampooned a certain franchise's merchandising zeal, but it likely didn't account for the Call of...
World of Warcraft discusses goals and plans for Mythic+ affixes and dungeons
The Blizzard developers who make up the team behind World of Warcraft's Mythic+ dungeons took an hour out of their day to hold a...
Blizzard says Diablo IV ‘is not intended to be played forever’ and teases a ‘pinnacle boss’
Those who had daydreams of playing Diablo IV 'til doomsday might be disappointed to learn that there is an apparent end to its progression...
NetEase is suing Blizzard for 300M CN¥ over licensing agreements [Updated]
We've updated this story at the end as NetEase's name has been removed from the lawsuit. The original article follows.
If you thought the NetEase...
Tencent’s World of Warcraft clone, Tarisland, plans global rollout
The vacuum created by World of Warcraft's closure in China back in January created an opportunity for a new title to fill that void:...
Overwatch 2 is fighting cheaters, fixing matchmaking, and saving Lifeweaver
Overwatch 2 has kicked out multiple dev blogs this week, and they touch on matters that are likely important to a vast swath of...
Global Chat: Black Desert is the MMO sandbox to beat
Those who wrote off or skipped by Black Desert on the way to other MMOs may be missing one of the best sandboxes on...
Warcraft Arclight Rumble devs talk XP level curve and exaggerated animations
While most of the eyes in the Blizzard universe are looking forward to WoW's 10.1 or some floofy Diablo sequel, there are a few...
Diablo IV is running a ‘Server Slam’ stress test the weekend of May 12
This morning, we noted the rumor that Blizzard might be plotting another Diablo IV beta, and during the studio's stream this afternoon, that's exactly...
World of Warcraft prepares more UI improvements and Diablo IV events
There's a whole lot coming with World of Warcraft's Update 10.1 early next month, but buried under all of the big ticket items will...
Diablo IV hints that a possible extra open beta test is coming soon [Update: Yep]
Diablo IV is up to something sneaky. You can tell because the game's Twitter account has been dropping some hints that seem to suggest...
Rumor: Throne & Liberty has been delayed to fall 2023, CBT arrives in May
Korean media are reporting today that NCsoft's Throne & Liberty has been delayed yet again, though of course since we've been waiting since 2014...
World of Warcraft previews Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible and flight in Zaralek Cavern
You there! Are you excited for Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible in World of Warcraft? Or, as you more likely remember it being called if...
Perfect Ten: 10 ways World of Warcraft feels like a dead mall
There was a time that I lived next to a very small mall that's tucked kind of out-of-the-way in a part of my state....
BlizzCon 2023 is still happening, Blizzard’s Mike Ybarra tells Twitter fans
Blizzard's fan-centered live event BlizzCon used to be one of the highlights of the year for the MMORPG genre - until COVID drove it...
Here’s how World of Warcraft’s cross-faction guilds will work in Embers of Neltharion
World of Warcraft players who've waited almost two decades to put all their toons from both sides of faction war into the same guild...
World of Warcraft producer claims Blizzard is bleeding talent and creating ‘crisis maps’ for feature releases
It would appear that another bout of brain drain is afflicting Blizzard as a whole and World of Warcraft in specific. One of the...
World of Warcraft Dragonflight readies events, articles, and a cinematic ahead of Embers of Neltharion’s launch
This week in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is understandably all about the run-up to the Embers of Neltharion update, which means the next few...
The Daily Grind: What are some demonstrably wrong things about old MMOs that people insist were true anyway?
A while back, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit arguing that "minmaxing an information abundance has ruined MMORPGs" and posited that devs...
