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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.

Lockbox roundup: MMO studios on ‘elegant’ lockboxes, legal issues, and the ‘cosmetics only’ angle

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You know the lockbox thing is reaching saturation when there are so many things to cover we have to resort to a roundup. Nevertheless,...
Swipe left.

World of Warcraft is patching in a way to purchase Legendaries directly in patch 7.3.5

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One of the most ongoing issues in World of Warcraft's current expansion has been the preponderance of Legendary items and the general difficulty of...
I'm not dead and get new models biannually

Michele Morrow calls out BlizzCon gender pay inequality

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Michele Morrow, one of the most recognizable faces in gaming thanks to her long career as a show host and actress and World of Warcraft...

The Game Archaeologist: Neocron

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It's the distant future. The high-tech battle armor you wear sharply contrasts with the ruins of civilization that you traverse. You spot an enemy...
I suppose this is a problem I'm happy to complain about.

World of Warcraft’s allied races are an account-wide unlock — and here’s how you can get them

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With Battle for Azeroth a ways down the road for antsy World of Warcraft fans, a lot of attention from the community has settled...
No, you don't get it, she has no eyes.

WoW Factor: The fate of the class orders post-Legion, part 2

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Back before the winter break, I took a look at how the various class orders are going to handle the increased conflict between the...

Blizzard has dispatched free Hearthstone packs as Kobolds and Catacombs dailies bug compensation

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Stretch your mind back into last year just a few weeks and you'll recall that Hearthstone suffered an irritating or blessed bug, depending on...
Guns and ships.

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018

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One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
Throw wide the gates to let us pass once more.

Food and video games, two great tastes together at last!

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If you thought that the World of Warcraft official cookbook was a stupid idea, then you may not be the target audience for the...
Race!

Check out the starting cutscenes for the first four Allied Races in World of Warcraft

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When are the first four Allied Races arriving in World of Warcraft? They're a big feature of Battle for Azeroth, but evidence increasingly points...

A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2017

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In all our many roundups at the turn of the year, we've never done one on the legal dramas that have affected the MMO...
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Heroes of the Storm previews the upcoming hero Blaze

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Considering the pedigree of StarCraft II and the MOBA genre in general, you would think that Heroes of the Storm would have featured heroes...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2017

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Last year was positively stuffed with updates, expansions, and cool stuff. A lot of years I struggle to remember which major updates happened in...

Overwatch’s 2018 includes new heroes, maps, and better competitive play

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Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan barely has recovered from his marathon chair-sitting session over the holidays, but the scruffy-looking nerfherder is back in front...

Exclusive: Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the superhero MMORPG genre

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Ship of Heroes is super-jumping right into 2018 with two documents of note. The first is a retrospective of what the Heroic Games team...

Here’s everything you need to know about World of Warcraft’s Patch 7.3.5

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With the community consensus that World of Warcraft's Patch 7.3.5 will be coming out prior to January 21st, some excitement and interest has been...
Manatastic?

Kingdom of Loot offers a video preview of its upcoming overworld map

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Remember Kingdom of Loot? It's cute, it's pixelated, and it's Secret of Mana meets Diablo in early access. So how is that working out?...

MMO Year in Review: WoW Classic and the doom of Marvel Heroes (November 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...

The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2017

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Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2017, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...

Global Adventures trots into closed beta, lures players in with promises of rewards

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Is one of your 2018 resolutions to try new games? Well here's one that looks pretty interesting, and it just went into closed beta. Global...

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