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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Choose My Adventure: Black Desert should have gotten MMO of the Year
I can admit when I'm wrong. It happens often enough, that's for damn sure, and part of learning from a mistake is admitting that...
Diablo III previews its 20th season, arriving on March 13
Ready for another season in Diablo III? You've only got about two weeks to be ready, because it's due to land on Friday, March...
Not So Massively: First impressions of Wolcen, a familiar but fun ARPG
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem isn't a game whose development I followed super closely, but I'd seen it on Steam aways back and thought it...
Riot Games’ multiplayer FPS Valorant is officially unveiled with new screens, details, and gameplay footage
Looks like the cat has been officially released from the bag. Valorant, the CSGO-like multiplayer FPS that was hitherto known as Project A, has...
The Daily Grind: Do old MMOs perform so much better now than at launch that they’re actually easier?
MMO blogger Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob fame recently posed us a question about old vs. new MMOs. "Our WoW Classic group has been...
The MOP Up: Red Dead Redemption’s puke rope saves the day
Puke may have ended Elvis Presley's life, but it could save yours -- if you're playing Red Dead Redemption 2, that is. Polygon posted...
Global Chat: Neverwinter is ‘damn good fun’
You know what's an interesting trend among MMO bloggers lately? It seems that many of them are heading back to Neverwinter -- and enjoying...
The Game Archaeologist: Tabula Rasa
The story of Tabula Rasa begins, as so many others do, with 1997's Ultima Online. Raph Koster and Richard Garriott's online fantasy sandbox proved...
Blizzard has now bowed out of GDC 2020 over coronavirus fears
At this point, it might be easier to just write a post on the companies that are going to attend this year's Game Developer...
Lawful Neutral: Cheating, copyright law, and the WoW Glider lawsuit
I have fond memories of using the Game Genie on my NES. To my seven-year-old self, it was a godsend. So many Nintendo games...
WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Wrath of the Lich King
The downside to a project like this one, where I'm going through each of World of Warcraft's expansions one by one, is that it...
WoW Classic offers another guide to starting out as the WoW Token rolls out to China’s version
You there! Do you know about starting out new in WoW Classic? Probably yes, if you had an interest in it, but Blizzard has still...
PAX East 2020: Hands-on with Cryptic’s Magic Legends
I’ll be honest, Magic: The Gathering is one realm of geekdom that I’ve never really gotten into. I know a bit about it, but...
Massively Overthinking: What one piece of knowledge would you like to impart to new MMO gamers?
A while back, I was reading on a non-MMO subreddit some comments from some younger people that made my head spin: They were informing...
Vague Patch Notes: Contemplating MMORPG exit barriers
In episode 13 of season 9 of The Simpsons, after having spent far more time than she wants in the Movementarian cult, Marge angrily...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands continues its march of encrypted alpha builds
In the abstract sense, it's really not unheard of that we as of yet don't know more about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It's not all that...
Diablo IV team dishes on inventory revamp, PC vs. console UI layout, and cannibals
Blizzard's just dropped a "quarterly update" for Diablo 4, the first of apparently more planned blog posts from the team, this one focused on...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 260: New World needs new ideas
Justin and Bree discuss Project Nova, Final Fantasy XIV, PAX East and the coronavirus, WoW subs, New World, and Daybreak, with mailbag topics on positive MMO stories, rogue servers, binge listening, and sandboxes.
Overwatch previews its new triple damage composition experimental mode
As fine-tuned as Overwatch tries to be (you leave your own opinions about how successful that's been), sometimes you have to try some radical...
EA becomes the latest studio to back out of a con over coronavirus concerns
This week's Boston-based PAX East has already felt the effects of multiple companies, from Sony to Square Enix, backing out over coronavirus fears -...
