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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.

The Daily Grind: Do you think WoW Classic is destined for greatness or utterly doomed?

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Since the formal announcement this week that WoW Classic is launching in August, I've seen multiple mainstream games journos opine that, well, you think...

Diablo III adds new Torment levels, introduces season 17 buff in latest patch

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The latest update for Diablo III is live on PC and consoles, and it's full of terrible torment and bovine bedlam, among other things....

World of Warcraft Classic launches August 26, with CBT tomorrow and stress tests beginning next week

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Here we go, folks: World of Warcraft Classic is now set to launch on August 27th - actually, in the US, it's the evening...
Bear bomb!

World of Warcraft is putting its Recruit-a-Friend program on hiatus

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Farewell, Recruit-a-Friend program. You've helped us introduce a small number of friends to World of Warcraft and helped a large number of multiboxers boost up...

The Dalaran Heist solo adventure lets Hearthstone players be E.V.I.L.

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It's good to be bad, or in the case of Hearthstone's lore, it's great to be E.V.I.L. Players of the online CCG can now...

The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about the future of Amazon’s New World?

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When Amazon Game Studios announced last week that it was taking New World's always-on alpha offline "to design major new features" that are "large...

Diablo III’s Season of Nightmares arrives this week

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When's the last time that you were excited about Diablo III? It's been a pretty quiet spring for the ARPG, but Blizzard is about...

One Shots: What am I looking at here, exactly?

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I guess I was asking for pure nightmare fuel when I issued a challenge last week to create the most disturbing and deformed avatars...

Nexon’s huge first quarter financials made EA and Blizzard look downright shabby

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While EA and Activision-Blizzard reported truly meh first quarter 2019 earnings, Nexon was out there making the case for why somebody ought to pay...
Just absolute galaxy brain

WoW Factor: Guessing at the next World of Warcraft expansion announcement using math

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Here's the genesis of this particular article: I saw speculation over on Blizzard Watch that we were about a year too early for a World...

The Daily Grind: Are we watching the AAA video game market burst?

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About four years ago, I wrote one of the pieces I'm still most proud of: It essentially argued that the MMO industry was suffering...

Massively Overthinking: Do you play MMO characters you like – or characters that are objectively good?

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Earlier this week, some Massively OP writers were hanging out in team chat talking about favorite City of Heroes powersets from back in the...

MMO Business Roundup: Bonfire Studios’ new multiplayer game, EA Access on PS4, and Pokebrains

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Welcome back to another quick roundup from the land of games industry business... Remember in 2016 when former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo...

Overwatch brings its new Havana escort map online

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If you didn't get enough of the location during the Storm Rising event in Overwatch, then you're in luck. The new Havana escort map...
hnn... colonel

EA sees quarterly and yearly revenue dropoffs, plans to port Apex Legends to mobile

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Activision-Blizzard wasn't the only company to see a weak start to 2019: EA also saw a drop off in revenue for Q1 2019, with...

The Daily Grind: What would get you to throw money at your MMO?

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Forget sparkleponies and loot boxes: Sometimes what game studios try to monetize isn't even remotely close to what we truly would like to buy....

Massively OP Podcast Episode 219: The 64-bit generation

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Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard financials, City of Heroes, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Classic, EVE Online, LOTRO, and Guild Wars, with mailbag topics on Blizzard, everythingboxes, genderlocking, and dad jokes.

World of Warcraft’s Anduin Wrynn brings his pretty face to Heroes of the Storm

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Of all the fictional authority figures in the World of Warcraft universe, King Anduin Wrynn is easily one of the prettiest. At least in...

Gamers warn that the AXS Mobile App needed to enter BlizzCon is ‘spyware level bad’

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Those who are headed to this year's BlizzCon event are being required to use the AXS Mobile App as part of efforts to deter...

The Game Archaeologist: Minions of Mirth

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While large teams with big budgets and studios backing them are expected to push out smash hit MMORPGs, to me it's always vastly more...

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