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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Mortal Online devs announce Mortal Online 2 (again) – check out the trailer!
Way back in February, Mortal Online developer Star Vault announced it was following up that first MMORPG and its 2018 battle royale spinoff with...
Hearthstone’s Descent of Dragons expansions launches while Overwatch gets Christmasy
With a name like Blizzard, you gotta know that this studio loves its winter season. It's a busy week for the company, starting with...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2019
Everyone is healthy! Good news! Every game is super healthy and absolutely no one has a terminal playerbase disease that may result in the...
Warsong Gulch, Alterac Valley, and plugin nerfs are live in WoW Classic
It may be too late for the WoW Classic folks who've already abandoned ship - or at least their PvP servers - but battlegrounds...
Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: MMO Story of the Year
Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2019 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Story of the Year, which was awarded to the Daybreak/Columbus Nova saga...
World of Warcraft’s gobbos and doggies are getting heritage armor
Are you excited about next year's Visions of N'Zoth content release for World of Warcraft? You might be more so if you play a...
The Daily Grind: How much do you mind loading screens in MMOs?
Maybe I'm showing my old-school nature here, but loading screens don't bother me all that much. I cut my MMO teeth on games like...
At least one WoW Classic PvP server now appears to be 100% Horde
Did you think that the faction war in WoW Classic could never actually be won? Turns out it can, since it appears that the entirety...
The Daily Grind: What MMO deserves its own movie or TV show?
In going through our annual posts ahead of our December awards and whatnot, I noticed a bunch of stories about movies and TV shows...
Hearthstone details its December 10 Descent of Dragons expansion
Dragons are coming to Hearthstone, and they're angry. Why are they always angry? Why can't dragons be more chill like Puff or the one...
The Daily Grind: What MMO will change its business model dramatically in 2020?
It used to be our tradition around the end of the year to speculate on which MMORPG that hadn't yet gone free-to-play would be...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2019
It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst MMO dev quotes...
WoW Factor: A history of itemization in World of Warcraft
Huh. You know, I really thought I'd written about the whole Corruption system in World of Warcraft's upcoming 8.3 before now in a format more...
WoW’s alpaca adoption promo, Hearthstone’s Winter Veil, and Heroes of the Storm’s Deathwing update
Diablo IV isn't the only thing getting big news from Blizzard this week - the studio's busy in most of its other big games...
Blizzard promises ‘deep and rewarding’ itemization in Diablo IV
When you dive through the gates of Hell once more for Diablo IV, you are not going to find the same-old itemization system that...
Editing tags may reveal the identity of a character in the Diablo IV cinematic trailer
It's going to be a long while before we have any sort of release date for Diablo IV or anything more than scraps of...
Overwatch 2 promises to deliver a ‘complete story with beginning, middle, and end’
The sequel-cum-expansion Overwatch 2 has a number of things for players to look forward to, especially those who are more eager to try out...
The MOP Up: Settlers of Catan goes alternate reality
If you are anything like my family and friends, then you probably have a copy or three of Settlers of Catan in play on...
Hearthstone Battlegrounds takes a deep dive into how the game determines your rating
Many game devs are extremely mum about how they come to determine a player's competitive rating. Not Hearthstone, which seems to be all too...
WoW Factor: A brief history of allied races (and when a grind is not a grind)
All right, calm down, this is not actually going to be done in the same format as a brief history of flight, if for no...
