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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World of Warcraft updates companion app with guild and community chat and calendars
If you guys do, in fact, have phones, you are exactly the target audience for the latest update arriving for the companion app for World...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO minipet?
Minipets: Either you love 'em and collect 'em like crazy, or you don't care for 'em and resent that I've been shortening "them" for...
World of Warcraft begins testing Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara
Ready, set, test! A week after Blizzard unveiled the full offerings for World of Warcraft's next major content update, the studio rolled the 7.1...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 216: Star Wars frenzy
Justin and Bree discuss big SWTOR expansion news, plus news from WoW, Blizzard, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, TERA, Albion, Blade & Soul, and DDO, with a mailbag question on MMO expansion difficulty.
Overwatch assigns a new co-op mission today, code-named Storm Rising
Despite what you may think, Overwatch's heroes aren't always at each other's throats while endangering the populace around them. Not always. Once in a...
Fan recreates classic Guild Wars’ Ascalon City in RPG Maker
Remaking your favorite online world in a different program seems to be a hobby of some fans, which is why we get (for example)...
The MOP Up: Grab your Harry Potter nickname now!
When Harry Potter: Wizards Unite arrives later this year, by which name will you be known and feared? Lord Scooby? Mr. Cheddar? Fluffybutticus? The...
Into the Super-verse: Trying DC Universe Online for the first time
While this column will no doubt be looking at the superhero MMO releases that are currently in development, it's also here, as we said,...
Blizzard says negative fan feedback won’t divert the course of its storytelling in World of Warcraft
Sometimes a statement can be both the right and wrong thing to say at the same time, and if you're thinking that sounds like...
WoW Factor: The level squish isn’t the whole solution for World of Warcraft
To be entirely honest, you might have expected this column a little bit earlier because it's been a hot minute since Ion Hazzikostas once...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a ‘port in the storm’ MMORPG?
Yesterday, we covered the news that Elder Scrolls Online is actually implementing queues and adding more capacity and new hardware to handle what its...
World of Warcraft details the new zones and new Heart of Azeroth upgrades for patch 8.2, Rise of Azshara
It's almost time for players to start testing World of Warcraft's patch 8.2, the Rise of Azshara. But you won't be going into testing...
Vague Patch Notes: The community is and is not the MMO
The community is not the MMO. That should be obvious. There is a game to League of Legends that exists without any of the toxic...
World of Warcraft previews the Crucible of Storms raid ahead of its release next week
Something sinister stirs beneath the Shrine of the Storm, and in World of Warcraft's upcoming Crucible of Storms raid, it will be up to...
Blizzard bribes female employees to track their sex, pregnancy, and moods
Big Brother was so 1984. Now in 2019, it's all about Big Blizzard.
Read this report over at Games Industry based on a new WAPO...
Perfect Ten: Suggestions to make World of Warcraft Classic feel more authentic
One of the things that I tell people going back to Final Fantasy XI now is that the game is, well, a different animal...
Hearthstone: Rise of Shadows goes live with plenty of freebies
Hearthstone has always represented the more light-hearted side of the Warcraft franchise, but now that goofy tone is, well, getting even goofier now that...
PAX East 2019: Elder Scrolls Online Elsweyr makes playing the bad guy feel very good
During this year's PAX East, freelance games journalist Sam Prell - you might remember him from his time at Joystiq and GamesRadar - took...
Adventure Academy is an ‘educational massively multiplayer online game’ launching May 1
Adventure Academy is going to mystify the typical gamer: There are no dragons to fight and no lockboxes to fight over. But if you're...
Overwatch announces its upcoming Archives event, Storm Rising, with new lore teasers
(We've updated the end of this piece with the formal announcement.)
The folks at Blizzard have dropped a pair of mysterious Overwatch lore teasers, serving...