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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Overwatch surpasses 10 million players
Blizzard just announced via Twitter that Overwatch has surpassed 10 million players -- that's 10 million boxes sold, at least half of them to...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s third raid wing
Forsaken Thicket is set to get much larger and... lanier... today: I was given the opportunity to test out the third wing of Guild Wars 2's...
How World of Warcraft raiders are helping the community get epic moose mounts
Here's your feel-good gaming story for the day: When Blizzard gated a prestige mount behind World of Warcraft's toughest raid, the community responded with...
Editorial: The Warcraft film is absolutely awful
A film does not have to be good to be entertaining. I hold that as a pretty firm truth. Snakes on a Plane, for...
Landmark bombs on Steam while WildStar fans deliver positivity
It was probably inevitable that Landmark's official launch on Friday afternoon -- against the Warcraft movie and pre-E3 hoopla and following basically zero PR...
Warcraft film hits a roundly disappointing $24.4 million opening in the US
It might seem a bit baffling that the Warcraft film was released in China well before it was released in the United States (which...
The MOP Up: EverQuest gets hardcore (June 12, 2016)
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: Fire + ice = mess
What do you get when you mix fire and ice? A steamy combination of incredible pictures... and an awful mess.
Steampower Girl noticed that in...
The Soapbox: Sharing MMORPGs with my kids
"Dad, can I pilot your ship tonight?"
I turn around to see my seven-year-old son giving me Bambi eyes with his hands clasped because, somewhere...
WoW dev vows ‘richer patch content lineup for Legion’
More news is emerging from the Blizzard summit in Irvine this week. Kotaku's World of Warcraft interview touches on a number of topics, including...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with distinct visual styles
Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly...
World of Warcraft: Legion is getting an animated Illidan short
Considering that Illidan Stormrage is the origin of all of the Demon Hunters double-jumping around in World of Warcraft: Legion you wouldn't be surprised...
The Daily Grind: Will you go to see the Warcraft movie?
Technically, the U.S. launch of the Warcraft movie is today, but in larger cities there were special showings all week, to say nothing of the...
Superdata: WoW, Lineage, SWTOR, TERA, and Blade & Soul top April P2P online games revenues
Superdata has a new seasonal report out on the state of the digital games market. The research firm's April figures show that World of...
The Warcraft movie is going gangbusters in China
Poor overall film reviews or no, Warcraft is most certainly going to make some nice bank this summer. The movie opens in the US...
Nostalrius team believes Blizzard ‘want[s] to have legacy WoW servers’
The World of Warcraft vanilla emulator team Nostalrius, which undertook a mission into the depths of Blizzard's HQ this past weekend, has returned and...
Overwatch’s updated competitive play system will be ‘much more skill-based’
With launch and meteoric success under its belt, Overwatch and its team are hard at work on the game's next big update, which should...
Global Chat: Is casual raiding important for MMOs?
When it comes to the subject of raiding, one might get the impression that there are only two factions involved: those who are hardcore...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 68: Dark and light
Justin and Bree discuss Darkfall, Landmark, Marvel Heroes, ArcheAge, Neverwinter, and ESO, with mailbag questions on community negativity, streaming, and commenters.
Warcraft movie premieres in the US, racks up huge ticket pre-sales
This is a huge week for the Warcraft movie. After releasing overseas, the motion picture adaptation of Blizzard's video game universe will be coming...
