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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.

Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft

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Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose. The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...

The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

One Shots: The rat race

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At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...

Hearthstone’s Kobolds and Catacombs dungeon run treasures are ‘blatantly overpowered’

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Just because Hearthstone is a multiplayer card game doesn't mean that Blizzard is ignoring its solo player community. In fact, the upcoming Kobolds and...
Awesome. Very impressive. Great job.

The Soapbox: The long tail of game development isn’t an excuse for gouging

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Don't be too mad at Star Wars: Battlefront II. It's a symptom of a problem, not the cause. I mean, be mad at people...

Australia turns up the heat on lockboxes

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The controversy over lockboxes and their legal status continues to draw more attention from governments, with Australia now weighing in on the issue. Not...

Massively Overthinking: What are you grateful for in the MMORPG genre?

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I've been keeping a gratitude journal for the first time in my life this month, and it turns out that it's freaking hard. Why?...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017

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Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
From the past.

The Daily Grind: Are you celebrating World of Warcraft’s anniversary?

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Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, but unlike many such years, it's not "just another Thursday" to everyone else. No, this marks the...
What can I say except ''you're welcome''

Perfect Ten: MMO things to be thankful about this year

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It's kind of hard to be thankful this year. Sure, some good things have happened this year, but we also have some things that,...

MassivelyOP’s 2017 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic

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With the new expansion, official vanilla servers, and all of the other news from BlizzCon this year, it's a great time to be a...
A dispatch from the days when I bothered.

World of Warcraft previews the Burning Throne

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Next week, players can start entering the raid that closes out the first storyline ever explored in the World of Warcraft universe. The raid...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master

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Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
A CHAMPION

World of Warcraft kicks off Pilgrim’s Bounty while time-locking its anniversary transmog

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Here's the good news: World of Warcraft has turned on Pilgrim's Bounty once again, which means that you can jump through some holiday achievement...

The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?

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Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...

The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?

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Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...

The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Global Chat: Why you need to be playing Warframe

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You know what's one MMO that seems to be capturing the interest of a lot of gamers these days? Warframe. It seems to be...

One Shots: Gassy and bloated

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I do think that we, as a culture, have become disturbingly obsessed with selfies, but I will always make an exception for anyone who...

World of Warcraft lead doesn’t want to talk about Classic, but confirms ‘vanilla means vanilla’

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Right out of the gate in the recent World of Warcraft Q&A, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas said that WoW Classic wasn't going to be...

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