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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Warcraft Rumble Season 10 adds its first ‘split leader’ mini Sylvanas Windrunner
No, Sylvanas Windrunner being called a "split leader" in the mobile battler Warcraft Rumble isn't a reference to the fact that her story appears...
Fight or Kite: Age of Empires Mobile is a gacha-encrusted, overmonetized monstrosity
I’ve always been a bit of a fan of the Age of Empires IP despite not being MOP’s resident RTS gamer. That’s an honor...
Here’s everything you need to know about next week’s WoW Classic Classic launch
With yesterday's surprise announcement that WoW Classic is launching "Classic Classic" fresh start realms next week on November 21st, plenty of questions were raised...
Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs
So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other...
WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery server gets serious about Ahn’Qiraj next week
With all of the announcements flying out of the Warcraft Direct stream yesterday, news about WoW Classic's Season of Discovery servers got a bit...
Say hello to Ruckus, the team behind your new favorite co-op smash-and-grab survival game
If you're wondering who's making all that ruckus this morning, rest assured it's Ruckus Games: It's a new studio put together by former devs...
WoW Factor: Thoughts on World of Warcraft getting housing and Classic Classic fresh start servers
With no BlizzCon this year and a pretty full and constantly updating roadmap for World of Warcraft unfolding (including this month's 20th anniversary activities),...
Warcraft Direct: World of Warcraft Midnight has player housing, WoW Classic Pandaria in 2025, and WoW Classic Classic
Friends, today is not-BlizzCon, which is to say that Blizzard decided not to hold a BlizzCon event in the year when World of Warcraft...
Overwatch 2 launches Overwatch Classic, Diablo IV says way too many of y’all are playing Spiritborn
Blizzard fans eagerly awaiting the Warcraft Direct showcase later today already have plenty to tide them over thanks to two big drops from the...
World of Warcraft teams up with Washington Football for no apparent reason
Dear MMO studios, it's not too late in the year to get your entries in for the coveted MOP Transmedia Synergy award. Remember: The...
Here’s what may surface during tomorrow’s Warcraft Direct livestream showcase
Tomorrow is a big shiny broadcast date for fans of World of Warcraft in specific and the Warcraft franchise in general as Blizzard readies...
NCsoft Q3 2024: NCsoft teases Aion 2 for 2025, says Throne & Liberty sales ‘surpassed internal projections’
It's been one hell of a quarter for NCsoft - and we mean that for every interpretation of the phrase.
As readers might recall, in...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most interesting alchemy system?
You know, I am generally not the kind of person who goes for heavy mage-y things in MMOs, and that usually includes alchemy. I'd...
Overwatch Classic comes to Overwatch 2 ‘for a limited time’ starting tomorrow
For Overwatch players still feeling the sting of the forced transition to Overwatch 2 and a heavy sense of longing to return to the...
NetEase’s advertisements for World of Warcraft’s return to China are animal-filled madness
It would be very simple to believe that World of Warcraft making its return to Chinese players would be a happy enough ending, particularly...
One Shots: Gather those rosebuds while you may
Hope you're not allergic to jungle settings and giant plants spewing all manner of pollen and brain-altering parasites, because we're going to the thick...
The Daily Grind: What legendary MMO event wasn’t actually that great in the first place?
Time, nostalgia, and rose-tinted memories can alter our perception of notable events. Sometimes even false memories trickle into our heads, reshaping history itself to...
Massively Overthinking: How long should it take to level to endgame in MMORPGs?
Right after New World's Aeternum launched, we did a piece looking into how the game was faring - and one complaint I saw over...
WoW Factor: Is World of Warcraft’s War Within the ‘come back’ expansion Blizzard wanted it to be?
It was two years ago this month that World of Warcraft players were riding out the final days of one of its most disappointing...
World of Warcraft’s newest map, Siren Isle, will eventually allow some flight with tons of rep and token farming
Update: Fresh datamining of the latest PTR build released just after we published this renders it all moot, so flight folks can rejoice: Apparently,...
