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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.

E3 2016: Master X Master might be the most MMO-like MOBA around

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Despite Eliot's positive experience with Master X Master at PAX East back in April, I went into my demo at this year's E3 expecting very...

Blizzard donates art to Seoul children’s hospital

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Blizzard's charity work is legendary at this point, and here's one more beneficiary: a children's hospital in Seoul, South Korea. The company apparently teamed...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO deserves a movie next?

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Now that the Warcraft movie is out and about and apparently its handlers are contemplating sequels, I have a burning question for you: Which MMO would...

The MOP Up: League of Legends fights in-house toxicity (June 19, 2016)

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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...

MMO Mechanics: Zonation and scaling mechanics in MMORPGs

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The recent E3 hubub about The Elder Scrolls Online new level syncing mechanics being extended has got me thinking all about the mechanics behind zones in MMOs,...

One Shots: Cave art

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True fact: One of the earliest attempts to screenshot the action in an MMORPG took place as prehistoric cave paintings in France. Another true...

The Game Archaeologist: The Shadow of Yserbius

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Really, I blame my parents for not being filthy rich. If they had been, we could've afforded the $130/month unlimited subscription fee to the ImagiNation...

World of Warcraft: Legion’s expansion cycle will be longer with more patches

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Remember all of those times that Blizzard said that it was going to speed up the rate at which it produced World of Warcraft expansions?...

Blizzard introduces an incredibly simple one-button authenticator

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When it comes to safety, people often weigh the security of taking preventive measures against the annoyance of having to use them. The more...

Guild Wars 2 debates deleting the Desert borderlands map, discusses raid boss fight

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Guild Wars 2's fourth and final developer video on the Stronghold of the Faithful features ArenaNet Game Designer Jason Reynolds discussing the design of...

Overwatch expects the new competitive play to change after release

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Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan took to the forums yesterday to share some of the plans for the game's continued development. Primarily on the table,...

Global Chat: Which mobs do you love killing in MMOs?

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Everyone has mobs that they particularly enjoy offing in MMORPGs -- sometimes so much so that we go out of our way to get...

Tamriel Infinium: The pros and cons of Elder Scrolls Online’s ‘One Tamriel’ level-syncing

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Despite being a two-year-old game, The Elder Scrolls Online has made a good showing at E3, which really shouldn't have surprised me -- but it...

World of Warcraft: Legion’s pre-expansion patch hits the test server

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While World of Warcraft players will have to wait until the very end of August to dive into the new expansion, a major event...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 69: WildSteam

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Justin and Bree discuss ESO, WoW, WildStar, Nostalrius, TSW, Star Citizen, Landmark, and FFXIV, with a mailbag question on MMO dungeons.
Oh, that's who she is.

Overwatch surpasses 10 million players

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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

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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

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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...
Oh, no, I have to list this among my past acting credits!

Editorial: The Warcraft film is absolutely awful

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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

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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...

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