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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.

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...
This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: Why Legion 2 wouldn’t win back the World of Warcraft crowd

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Let's talk about fan expectations and naked fanservice for a bit. In fact, let's start with the Power Nine from Magic: the Gathering, and...
It only became real very recently.

World of Warcraft Classic will allow up to 50 characters, regardless of your existing character count

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Imagine for a moment that you have 50 max-level characters in World of Warcraft right now. However, you also need to have 50 alts in World of...

Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs

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The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...

Activision-Blizzard Q1 2019: Revenue has dropped by nearly a quarter since last quarter

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It's now pretty clear that Activision-Blizzard's days of limitless growth and endless record-setting are over, at least for now, as the company's now-released financials...
So, bye.

Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are not the same as your single-player games with servers

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Recently, I've been trying to get into Bloodborne. This isn't a result of my disliking the Souls franchise as a whole, just that it's never...

Blizzard decides to skip Gamescom 2019 as part of cost-cutting efforts

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The con circuit has always been a sort of expected course for games companies to run, like the Tour de France except with less...

TERA is turning seven – here’s what it’s getting you for the occasion

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Wow, it's hard to believe TERA is turning seven in May, but here we are. En Masse has plenty of fun planned too, including...

Not So Massively: Yearning for an MMO future free of loot

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Throughout all of the Drama over Anthem's loot issues, I've just been rolling my eyes. Not because I think Bioware screwed up -- arguably...
Was there a guy? I thought there was a guy.

World of Warcraft backpedals on recent banwave

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Blizzard has announced that it's rolling back its recent wave of suspensions for World of Warcraft accounts found to be operating third-party software "that...
No galaxy brain here.

The Daily Grind: How do you explain MMORPGs to non-gamers?

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Last week, I did an interview trying to explain exactly what was going on with the whole City of Heroes drama. Almost immediately, the...
Kate, we have to go back!

World of Warcraft Classic will be using up-to-date items, but not all items at once

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Itemization is more of an issue than you might think of in World of Warcraft: Classic. Sure, there's a pretty clear progression of gear in...
Actually call it a comeback.

WoW Factor: What could win back the crowd for the next World of Warcraft expansion?

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So the conclusion to the Azshara raid has been mined out, and I'm just going to link it to you here. I don't want...
We know what we know.

Massively Overthinking: Is there a ‘do or die’ moment for MMOs now?

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This week MOP's Eliot and I were chatting about the wild summer the MMO industry is about to have, what with a whole bunch...
Here we go again.

BlizzCon 2019 announced for the start of November

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It's almost time! All right, it's nowhere near time, but it will be time when November 1st rolls around for BlizzCon. The convention dates have...
alexa play the gold saucer theme

Overwatch introduces the Workshop to build truly custom game modes

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Historically, one of the best parts of Blizzard's various single-player games has been building custom maps; it worked out well for Warcraft III, clearly, and...
Welcome to priority town.

Overwatch’s next hero is not Sojourn, but a lot of people wish she were

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You all remember how people were a little bit miffed about the introduction of Wrecking Ball/Hammond into the Overwatch lineup, right? To summarize very quickly,...
I'm not back on any BS, I never left it.

Perfect Ten: Things do prepare for ahead of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

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Let's be real, folks, Final Fantasy XIV's third expansion is not right around the corner. You have two months until that thing is even in early access,...
oh noes a bitey scratchus

World of Warcraft gets a new update on the patch 8.2 test server

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Sure, World of Warcraft fans don't yet know when the next major patch will be going live, but there's been another update to the test...

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