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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.

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World of Warcraft previews the Crucible of Storms raid ahead of its release next week

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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

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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...
The yeller.

Perfect Ten: Suggestions to make World of Warcraft Classic feel more authentic

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One of the things that I tell people going back to Final Fantasy XI now is that the game is, well, a different animal...
Oh gosh.

Hearthstone: Rise of Shadows goes live with plenty of freebies

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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

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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

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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

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(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...

Blizzard lays out its plans for PvP in World of Warcraft Classic, teases Rise of Azshara stream

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Last month, Blizzard dished out the deets on how World of Warcraft: Classic's content will be divvied out in six discrete phases, but the...

The Daily Grind: How much does trust for other players matter in MMORPGs?

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My husband is a dedicated Overwatch player, and lately he's been watching videos about improving his skill that frankly seem to have just as...

Diablo III’s Season 17 content hits the public test server

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Considering the last Diablo III update's round of public testing reportedly went over so well, the devs have continued the trend with Patch 2.6.5,...
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World of Warcraft welcomes the Darkmoon Faire and its new rollercoaster

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The faction war is supposedly more urgent than it's ever been in World of Warcraft. We say "supposedly" because, well, it's hard to believe...

The MOP Up: Hearthstone’s pre-Rise of Shadows patch arrives

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The next major expansion for Hearthstone is almost upon us (and will, in fact, be here Tuesday), but for now you can get ready...
If you look to your left, you will see a sad person.

Global Chat: Do you think you could design a better game than World of Warcraft?

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Let's be honest: We all are so egotistical and opinionated that we totally think we could design a better MMO than World of Warcraft....

Lawful Neutral: The future of MMO game design in a streaming gaming world

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It’s been an interesting few weeks for gaming. We saw the announcement of Google’s game streaming service, Stadia, and then Apple’s subscribe-to-access game service,...

Massively Overthinking: If an MMO item is buyable with gold, does that excuse its presence in the cash shop?

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This week's Overthinking topic comes from longtime MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls. It's about monetization, but it's a nuanced argument we don't see...
lol so randum

World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas explains the philosophy behind Azerite now and in the future

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It turns out that even if you liked World of Warcraft's Artifact Weapons and how they were designed, their front-loaded nature was very bad. That's...
Tinkering.

Perfect Ten: MMO celebrations that didn’t rip off real-world holidays

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Does it ever slightly bother you that in these alternate fantasy and science fiction worlds that we explore there just so happens to have...

Check out this 4K version of the original Diablo II intro cinematic made with AI

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We're seeing quite a number of HD remasters in video games and retellings of classic movies, so perhaps it was only a matter of...
Take with one hand and give with the other hand.

World of Warcraft Classic is all about old-school spell batching

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In the quest to bring back as close to an authentic vanilla era experience as possible, Blizzard is returning a system that players probably...
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Diablo III kicks off testing for patch 2.6.5 on April 5

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It's time for a little testing in Diablo III starting on April 5th (that's how you know it's not a joke) when patch 2.6.5 arrives...

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