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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World of Warcraft offers an extra 30 days of subscription time for Dragonflight gift purchases through December
Blizzard: So it turns out that after releasing two terrible World of Warcraft expansions back-to-back, we've ensured nobody actually trusts us to release another...
Epic MMO Battles of History: Azeroth vs. Final Fantasy XIV antagonists
Not every single game is comparable to every other game. That's just the reality of things. Comparing every Mega Man game to every Castlevania...
Members of US Congress send letters to game companies about combating extremism in online gaming
According to a December report from the Anti-Defamation League, extremism in online gaming is on the rise for the fourth year in a row....
Diablo IV dev livestream talks up seasons, battle passes, and the Codex of Power system
With Diablo IV still eyeing its June 6th open beta early access release date (in spite of reports of crunch casting doubt on that...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Chris Metzen returns to the World of Warcraft team as a ‘creative advisor’
Who had this on the "biggest surprise" bingo card? Blizzard has apparently rehired Chris Metzen to work on World of Warcraft and its extended...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s proposed Trading Post actually sounds good so far
I could, in theory, spend today's WoW Factor talking about the launch of the first endgame season in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, but quite...
Overwatch 2 launches Winter Wonderland this week
It's time to mark the wintery season in both Hearthstone and Overwatch 2 as both games have lined up their seasonal events for the......
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2022
I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...
The Daily Grind: Do you log into MMOs you’re not playing to get Christmas presents?
It's come to my attention that certain things are happening at this specific time of year. Egg noggy things. A world coated with peppermint...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 400: A fireside chat with Justin and Bree
Justin and Bree discuss The Game Awards, Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Nightingale, Wayfinder, Dune Awakening, the FTC fighting Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard merger, ZeniMax's unionization effort, and Black Desert's Calpheon Ball, plus an epic Daily Grind showdown with topics ranging from the MMO regrets to the best elves.
World of Warcraft launches Season 1 of Dragonflight’s endgame today
If you've been enjoying the lack of pressure to get in on weekly clears and such in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight thus far... well,...
Diablo Immortal adds a new zone, more Hell Difficulties, and a holiday event in latest update
Terror's Tide is crashing across Diablo Immortal, and with it comes a large-scale update for the mobile MMO, with new content, updates to existing...
Blizzard says it’s still working on finding a new Chinese publisher for World of Warcraft
Blizzard General Manager John Hight has posted a video and now a written message to Chinese players in the wake of last month's announcement...
World of Warcraft plans new currency and stipend for monthly ‘Trading Post’ cosmetic shop
The concept of cosmetics seasons, cosmetic shops, and monthly stipends aren't remotely new in MMOs, but Blizzard is blending elements of all three in...
The MOP Up: ArcheAge attempts to end the year on a high note
This past week, ArcheAge's devs talked about the game's December plans and how the sandbox fantasy MMO is going to close out the year.
"We...
One Shots: Make yourself at home!
You all know that we here at the One Shots Studyological Laboratories are partial to pictures of player housing. This goes doubly for any...
World of Warcraft increases its quest log to 35 slots
One of World of Warcraft's most stable features got a major improvement this week. Blizzard announced that it increased the size of the quest...
WoW Factor: The curious treatment of alts in World of Warcraft Dragonflight
So now that first impressions are out of the way and I can focus on other things like making sure that my alts get...
Activision-Blizzard’s new lawsuit is another attack on the state agency pursuing it for discrimination and harassment
Activision-Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against California's Civil Rights Department (fka the DFEH) alleging that the agency "slow-walked" and "unlawfully redacted" documents the company...
