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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Blizzard commissioned artists to paint an entire chapel with Diablo IV’s gothic art
Blizzard is chugging along the train tracks to Diablo IV's beta this month with a drop of several new trailers and a new AMA...
The Daily Grind: Do you experience MMO ‘expansion endorphins’?
Back in December, MOP's Justin wrote an article about being excited to play World of Warcraft Dragonflight, and in that piece, he wondered whether...
The MOP Up: SWTOR gets swoopy and plaguey in March
Star Wars: The Old Republic may not have a big patch coming out this month, but the MMO does have a couple of events...
Battle Bards Episode 222: World of Warcraft Dragonflight
Will our fascination with giant, skyfaring, flame-belching lizards subside? World of Warcraft bets not, as it’s currently soaring through its Dragonflight expansion. Will the...
One Shots: Welcome to your adorable nightmare
So where do you come down on the subject of Final Fantasy XIV's Lalafells? There's no middle ground here; either you're in love with...
Global Chat: How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacted EVE Online?
While the effects of real-world events on video games certainly isn't as important as the lives, livelihoods, and freedoms of actual people, it is...
Lawful Neutral: What MMO gamers need to know about Section 230
You might have seen something in the news last week about a thing called Section 230 and lots of panic over the "end of...
The FTC grants Microsoft’s request for Sony docs as leaks say the EU will approve ABK merger
Remember back when Sony accused Microsoft of "harassment" for requesting internal documents from Sony that would aid Microsoft in defending its Activision-Blizzard merger before...
World of Warcraft previews the new adventures on the Forbidden Reach in patch 10.0.7
Raszageth is gone in World of Warcraft. She's not here any more. But her legacy lives on... specifically, her legacy of being the reason...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft is just coasting down the mountain
In November 1994, Marvel Comics launched a new comic book spin-off from the main X-Men series. Generation X, written by Scott Lobdell, was in...
Mad World is on track to launch ‘before June,’ isn’t worried about Diablo IV
Mad World has been cooking for a long time; it was originally intended to launch in 2018, then 2020, then 2022. "We are 99.9%...
CWA files charges against Activision-Blizzard over latest unionbusting efforts
Activision-Blizzard's unionbusting reputation precedes it, I'm afraid, as the company has been playing a very public whackamole game with its burgeoning workers' movements over...
World of Warcraft previews the multiple variants of Orc and Human heritage armor coming with 10.0.7
While World of Warcraft is not a game lacking in playable races by any stretch of the imagination, Orcs and Humans are the two...
Diablo IV discusses the focus, timing, and extra details of its upcoming March beta tests
We already know that the month of March means two beta tests for Diablo IV, but before those test phases can begin, the devs...
The Daily Grind: What has the MMO genre lost in its push to progress?
Having played both World of Warcraft retail and WoW Classic pretty extensively over the past few years, I can conclusively say that, for me,...
World of Warcraft level designer issues second printing of tell-all development tome
Back in 2018, we reported on a Kickstarted coffeetable book written by World of Warcraft's first 3-D level designer, John Staats. The published work...
Overwatch 2 players question Season 3 balance, find an invincible statue, and beg for a Mei-killing homing grenade
Yes, we appreciate that headline is a melange of weird and disparate pieces of Overwatch 2 news, but some of these things are a...
Diablo III welcomes Season 28 while Diablo Immortal goes fishin’
Resolutely ignoring the looming presence of Diablo IV on the horizon, the other Diablo titles are keeping pretty busy these days. In fact, Diablo...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
