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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.

She has ideas.

Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs in 2020

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While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...
Going nowhere, going nowhere

Catch up on World of Warcraft’s overall story arc in just one and a half minutes

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Yes, you read that title right: This one and a half minute video will get you fully up to speed on World of Warcraft's...

Chapter 1 of Galakrond’s Awakening arrives to Hearthstone on PC, is inexplicably delayed on mobile

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Yesterday was launch day for the first chapter of Hearthstone's latest expansion, Galakrond's Awakening, but it arrived with an odd asterisk; the update landed...
Just marking time after all.

World of Warcraft kicks off the last season of Battle for Azeroth item level increases

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We're all still up to date on the fact that World of Warcraft's Visions of N'zoth patch is a bit of a mess, right? Well,...
Whistle

Nexon exec Jon Jelinek reminisces about WildStar and World of Warcraft

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Previous web designer on World of Warcraft and executive producer on WildStar (and now Nexon OC general manager) Jon Jelinek recently sat down for...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio had the best communication in 2019?

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I am in the weird position lately of finding that my favorite live MMOs are not necessarily made by my favorite studios. I find...

Not So Massively: Magic: Legends isn’t at all what I expected – it’s better

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When we first got word of an MMO in the setting of Magic: The Gathering years ago, a Diablo-style ARPG probably isn't what anyone...

Battle Bards Episode 160: MMO cover songs vol. 2

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For the first time since Episode 50, the Battle Bards crew returns to the theme of cover songs of MMO tracks. Several extremely musicians...

The Game Archaeologist: Super-early versions of MMORPG websites

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One of the absolute best things the internet ever generated has been the Internet Wayback Machine. Through this site, snapshots of millions of websites...

One Shots: Abusing emote spam

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Emotes: They're a privilege, not a right. Well, they actually come pretty standard in most online games, so I guess they're more or less...
Multi-digit division.

Global Chat: Why player representation in games matters

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The recent flap over Escape from Tarkov's public pronouncement of "no icky girls" (my paraphrase) as playable characters in its game elicited more than...
We're fine.

World of Warcraft’s Visions of N’Zoth is kind of a ‘horrific’ mess – where’s the old ‘Blizzard Polish’?

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One popular World of Warcraft YouTuber is calling this past week's Visions of N'Zoth Blizzard's "buggiest patch ever" as a result of the WoW...

New World just took a hard turn away from a PvP slugfest, and hardcore PvPers are not happy

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Even knowing it was slated to arrive, I was still surprised last night when Amazon Game Studios dropped New World's latest dev blog well...
Do this differently.

WoW Factor: There is (not) much to do in World of Warcraft

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Here's a fun question for you: How do you count discrete activities in World of Warcraft? It's a more complex concept than you might...
It's all riding rats.

World of Warcraft bundles its new Year of the Rat mount, Squeakers, in with a six-month subscription

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Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an effort to distract you from what will no doubt be at...
Not the chess maneuver.

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG bugs ever

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This week's Massively Overthinking discussion topic is inspired by Crowfall's J Todd Coleman, who last fall tweeted about the time playable spiders almost became...

Hearthstone previews Galakrond’s Awakening adventures, Overwatch brings on the Year of the Rat event

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It's time for Blizzard game news that doesn't involve WoW! No, I'm not writing about anything new from Diablo III. That'd just be silly....
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Vague Patch Notes: Guild Wars 2 might be the MMO that defined the last decade

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It's been about a week or so since we did our Overthinking on the best MMO of the decade, and I ultimately rattled off...

Crowfall’s UI is getting less survival-y and more MMO-y with February’s test patch

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Call me weird, but user interfaces in games are among my favorite things to dig into, and Crowfall's has been of particular interest to...
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Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

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This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...

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