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: Are you concerned about the future of World of Warcraft?
Given the week that Activision-Blizzard just had - capping off a record financial year by haphazardly firing 800 employees, literally provoking union groups to...
One Shots: Your moment of zen
When life -- and even gaming -- gets too hectic, where do you retreat to in order to find some peace and quiet? We...
Blade & Soul loses Producer Jonathan Lien
Rabbit Man is sad today because Rabbit Man heard the news that Jonathan Lien is leaving his post as producer for Blade and...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard of: Tales of Wind, Era of Legends, and Darksburg
Welcome back to another run-down of MMOs and other online games you've probably never heard of. We love doing these! Here's some stuff...
The Game Archaeologist: Terra, SubSpace, and Sovereign
In the MMO industry, science fiction has always taken the role of the overlooked little brother to big sister fantasy's popularity. Sure, there have...
The Daily Grind: When have you bumped into MMOs in real life?
The other day I was driving through my neighborhood and I happened to look at a cross-street that read WESTFALL. And, being the former...
Battle Bards Episode 138: Wild wild westerns
Boy howdy, is it time for another highfalutin Battle Bards episode? Shucks, looks like! In this week’s show, the trio saddle up for a...
Video game unionization effort starts petition to remove Bobby Kotick from Activision-Blizzard
After calling for Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to resign on Wednesday, video game industry unionization group Game Workers Unite has now put together a...
The Daily Grind: How much does nostalgia drive your MMO play?
Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity recently pointed us to a Kotaku article on the subject of video game nostalgia. Author Alyse Knorr maintains...
Massively Overthinking: Showing up vs. showing off in MMOs
Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if...
Vague Patch Notes: On play conditioning and the lecture of experience in MMOs
Yes, it's another week in which we talk about abstract concepts that underpin the way we play video games, this time inspired by a...
Blizzard devs characterize layoffs as a ‘bloodbath’ as pro-unionization effort calls for Bobby Kotick’s resignation
A day after Activision-Blizzard announced record earnings and began laying off a reported 800 people, we're finally getting a clearer picture of the...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2019
It's still early enough in 2019 to do articles about the upcoming year, right? Well, I'm doing this one anyway, so if it's too...
Nexon had a record-high 2018, but it’s got only mobile titles coming westward in 2019
If you were hoping for some eye bleach after the financial reports from Blizzard and NCsoft yesterday, then I'm sorry - Nexon...
Activision-Blizzard posted another record-high quarter and year, layoffs begin anyway
Activision-Blizzard's financial reports have been rather dull affairs for MMO gamers over the last few years, ever since the company stopped reporting World of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 208: Blizzard’s chilly forecast
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard's troubles, New World, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 1, Tibia, RIFT, Elder Scrolls Online, and Astroneer, with mailbag questions on WoWfugees and the abandonment of Diablo III.
Hearthstone previews the Brawl of Champions as the Season of Rastakhan draws near
Although things might not be looking too great for Activision-Blizzard as of late, it would appear that it's still business as usual...
World of Warcraft: Europe’s anniversary, Patch 8.1.5 details, and Arena championships
While World of Warcraft officially turned 14 years old last November, astute historians might remember that it wasn't for several months after that...
The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about New World’s setting?
When New World was announced back in 2016, the MMO community went to work dissecting everything, from its PvP system to its...
Heroes of the Storm devs emerge with plan to make all collection skins buyable with gems
With the threat of mass layoffs now hanging heavy over Blizzard, you might have forgotten about the doom that befell Heroes of...
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