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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.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 169: Farscape and RuneScape

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Trove, Secret World Legends, RuneScape and Jagex, Amazon's New World, PWE MMO sunsets, Star Trek Online's new business model, SWTOR, and ESO, plus mailbag topics on the Guild Wars 1 graphics update and crafting MMOs. And yes, we talk Farscape too!

World of Warcraft DDOSer sentenced to a year in prison, Blizzard chats about Battle for Azeroth’s latest round of faction wars

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Blizzard is not messing around with DDOS attacks. The BBC has a piece out on a World of Warcraft player from Romania, Calin Mateias, who...
Glorbo?

The Daily Grind: What small details in MMOs have you noticed?

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Because I'm always playing the World of Warcraft auction house, I spend a lot of time hanging out in the Stormwind branch as a...
Yay?

Warcraft movie props are being auctioned off on May 14

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If you have a few hundred dollars to burn and are eager to get World of Warcraft-esque movie props in your home, you're in...

Choose My Adventure: In which Ultima Online makes its displeasure known

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So... this is an interesting situation for me. I've had a number of games that I've played for Choose My Adventure that I haven't...
Good news, this isn't bad as it looks!

Activision-Blizzard talks battle royale and saving Destiny 2 as stock slowly recovers after Dow Jones snafu

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Yesterday we teased ActiBlizz for putting out another boring quarterly financial report about its ever-growing piles of money, but even with World of Warcraft...

Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding

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Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while. "I have noticed raiding tends to...

Hearthstone revives Noblegarden for another hop around the bushes

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No, your eyes do not deceive you: Noblegarden is coming back a month after its run in World of Warcraft. This time around, Hearthstone...
Yes, it was this bad. It was always this bad.

Overwatch hackers see jail time in South Korea while competitive season 10 begins and Rialto goes live

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If there was any remaining question, let's make sure you know that you really do not want to be an Overwatch hacker in South...

Activision-Blizzard Q1 2018: WoW is actually outperforming expectations – time for a fourth yacht or no?

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Reporting on Activision-Blizzard's endless piles of money is about as much fun as reporting on how fifty-bajillion-zillion people are playing fork knife. No, I...
I'm not exaggerating when I say that I had Highmountain unlocked without any intent of ever using it.

World of Warcraft outlines the advantages and drawbacks for its upcoming War Mode

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The changes coming to world PvP in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth means that it's no longer a gap between servers, but a...

Battle Bards Episode 120: Short stuff

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Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...
hooray sorta

Diablo III patches its console versions up to speed with the PC

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Oh, it's Diablo III! Remember that game? Probably you do if you want to play a roguelike hack-and-slash on console. The good news for...

Perfect Ten: MMOs with different (camera) perspectives

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By the time that World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, the MMORPG industry had already gravitated toward standard when it came...

Massively OP Interview: Dual Universe demo shows off advances in city building, space travel

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When you work in video games, you often get asked what new titles you are looking forward to. While experience has been teaching me...

The Daily Grind: Do you make an effort to be positive and friendly in MMORPGs?

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Despite concerns about the pervasiveness of toxicity in gaming, most gamers are not toxic. Outside of extremely social MMOs, I suspect most people probably...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy

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Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.

World of Warcraft needs you to babysit again

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Oh great, you're here. We'll be out late, at least until 11, so make sure that the kids are in bed by 7:30 with...
Money dollars.

World of Warcraft offers a guided tour of the Zandalari capital, Zuldazar

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The Zandalari trolls are allied with the Horde in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, but their society has long endured without outside interference....

Chinese authorities arrest 15 more accused PUBG hackers, fining them over $5M

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Bluehole and PUBG Corp are apparently continuing their government-backed crackdown on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds cheaters. Last week, PUBG Corp told Steam players that it takes cheating...

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