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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The best Massively OP MMO community polls of 2018
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don’t often get from our other articles - at least when they aren’t being brigaded...
Overwatch releases a new short story and confirms that yes, Soldier 76 is gay
Poor Ana, she got a bit short-sold on her own short story. Yes, Overwatch's healing sniper gets her own bit of short fiction, but...
A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2018
Last year, we started a new end-of-the-year tradition: a recap of all the legal and political dramas that have affected the MMO genre over...
The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2018?
So here's a fun-slash-depressing annual Daily Grind we've been running for the past few years thanks to DK, who originally proposed it.
The knee-jerk answer,...
The MOP Up: Diablo III’s anniversary dungeon returns
Anyone who missed out on Diablo III's anniversary dungeon can get back in on the fun and rewards thanks to its reprise all month...
Global Chat: Little things that add up to a great MMO
Ever find yourself running down a list of "little things" that impress you and keep you busy in an MMO when you're trying to...
The Game Archaeologist: Project Copernicus
In the end, one of the biggest shames of the whole 38 Studios fiasco is that the MMORPG it was creating and the people...
Blizzard is investigating Overwatch team’s ‘social experiment’ hoax [Updated]
The first female member of an Overwatch Contenders team is now also the first female player to leave an Overwatch Contenders team. Ellie had joined the...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s most underused zones in Classic
No, I'm still not done with thinking about the game's zones and how they relate to Classic. Because while I've already covered the zones...
The Hearthstone leads Blizz lost last year just scooped up the Marvel IP with their new studio
Blizzard had a rough year losing key figures at the company last year - heck, this week it lost its CFO to Square Inc....
Battle Bards Episode 135: Battle for Azeroth
It’s Battle Bards vs. Battle for Azeroth — and only one victor will come out of this alive! Actually, the podcast trio is delighted...
World of Warcraft’s next raid, Battle of Dazar’alor, starts unlocking on January 22
It turns out that the next World of Warcraft raid won't exactly have sections differentiated for the two major factions; as the raid preview explains,...
Imperius, the Archangel of Valor, joins Heroes of the Storm as its 85th hero
Although Heroes of the Storm fans got some rather disheartening news late last year when Blizzard announced that it would be slowing down the...
Vague Patch Notes: How to make your points and exit gracefully from online debates
It's 2019, people. Let's do this. And by do this I of course mean learn to actually debate things in a way that might wind up changing...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2018
We can't do an accurate "most popular MMORPG articles of 2018 by pageviews" list as we usually do thanks to skewed data from MOP's extensive...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2018
A not-inconsequential part of me misses the days when every MMO would pump out boxed expansions. I like buying boxes of stuff I like...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO freebie you’ve ever gotten?
I, like 99.99% of the world's population, loves free swag. I love me dorky t-shirts I'll never wear, I crave stress balls that pop...
The best Massively OP community Daily Grinds of 2018
Assuming the archives are correct, the first Daily Grind ever was penned by Krystalle Voecks on November 3rd, 2007, a day after Old Massively...
World of Warcraft fan creates a greatly improved Wrathgate cinematic
While Blizzard is undeniably masterful in its creation and use of cinematic cutscenes to propel the plot of World of Warcraft today, back in...
Activision Blizzard’s CFO is ousted and appears to be getting hired by Netflix
It's a new year, but we've still got some last vestiges of last year's corporate ongoings to close out the events of 2018. Isn't...
