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 Game Archaeologist: Fury
Back in 1997, Australian game developer Auran arrived onto the scene with the real-time strategy title Dark Reign. While it wasn't exactly Command & Conquer...
Diablo III patches in Season 16 while investors see a bright potential future for Diablo Immortal
The latest patch for Diablo III is currently available, and it adds the game's sixteenth season to the game. Of course, that's not all...
Blizzard lays out World of Warcraft’s esports 2019 plans, will crowdfund part of prize pools
Although Blizzard may have cut back on esports support for Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft's esports scene is back and bigger than...
WoW Factor: No, Activision is not the reason you’re unhappy with World of Warcraft
There's a narrative that's been making the rounds for a little while now among the World of Warcraft community, buoyed a lot by the fact...
Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a World of Warcraft 2?
Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...
ArcheAge rolls out update 5.1 as players call ‘bait-and-switch’ over normalized mounts
As promised, Gamigo pushed out update 5.1 for ArcheAge yesterday, complete with its hero system revamp, tweaks for pirates, the Abyssal Library do-over, and...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019
Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
After telling Blizzard to cut spending, Activision pays $15 million bonus to new CFO
Hey, do y'all remember a little bit back when Activision told Blizzard that it had to start cutting back on its spending? Oh, and...
World of Warcraft outlines the item reward changes arriving in the game next week
Next week sees the opening of a new raid in World of Warcraft on Normal and Heroic difficulties, which means you'll be getting some more...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s Battle at the Binary Stars heats up
Star Trek Online has a serious crush on Discovery right now -- and why not, since the show has propeled the franchise back into...
LOTRO Legendarium: A requiem for trait lines
Back in last October when Standing Stone Games announced that it would be launching the legendary server type, one of the most contentious points...
Activision investors are now investigating whether the Bungie split involves securities fraud
Two days ago, Activision and Bungie announced an early split of their long-running partnership, a split that transferred publishing rights for the franchise back...
For Science: The psychology of online gaming toxicity, fanpersonism, and gamer identity
Over the holidays, I bumped into some great video material from author and YouTuber Caleb Ross that seems useful for online gamers in particular....
Storyboard: What makes an MMORPG a good home for roleplaying?
Guess who's back.
I gave Star Wars: The Old Republic a lot of grief over the course of 2018 for the fact that its server merges...
Blizzard and Netease will be cranking out games together at least until 2023
Chinese gaming giant Netease has popped up in the news over and over this past year. It poured money into SpatialOS and is building...
World of Warcraft smacks Monks, Shamans, and Druids with PvP nerfs
To help bring some fairness and balance to the relentless, never-ending warfare of World of Warcraft, the folks at Blizzard have recently made some...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2019
With nearly all of our end-of-2018 content finally and blissfully behind us - seriously, I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when it's...
Hearthstone takes a wrench to the guts of Rumble Run
There's nothing wrong with playing by yourself, you lonely soul you. There must be quite a few like minds, because Hearthstone continues to pour...
Vague Patch Notes: The fads and the curious (and why Overwatch’s star is fading)
So it's beginning to look a lot like the Overwatch fad has faded. It was a crazy couple of years there, but the fact that...
Excelsior! Bereft Blizzard boasts big boost with stupendous Stan Lee stand-in wandering World of Warcraft!
Greetings, heroes of Azeroth! Many MMO and other multiplayer titles mourned the much-missed and many-storied media mogul Stan Lee when he passed away in...
