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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One Shots: Slipping between shadows
I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...
The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live
The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...
Heroes of the Storm previews its upcoming Chromie, Medivh, and hero skins
If you feel like Heroes of the Storm is lacking in powerful spellcasters, your reasoning isn't particularly solid, but you can take heart in...
WoW Factor: Content gaps, polish, and the Legion release date
The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2016: Activision-Blizzard posts results ahead of WoW Legion, Overwatch
Activision-Blizzard's first quarter 2016 financial report just hit the internet, and the company is declaring "better-than-expected" financial results.
"For the quarter ended March 31, 2016,...
Overwatch open beta is live until May 9th
Tired of just watching the people who get to shoot their way through Overwatch in its more selective test phases? You don't have to...
China gets the Warcraft movie two days before everyone else
Want to be among the first in the world to see the Warcraft feature film? Then you best be buying a ticket to China....
World of Warcraft kicks off Children’s Week
Are you just sitting around in your Garrison these days in World of Warcraft, waiting for the Burning Legion to stop farting about and...
The Daily Grind: Have you revisited an old MMO character lately?
The Gnome Warlock you see in the above header is the original Syp, created pre-Burning Crusade in October 2006. She's probably one of my...
Diablo III adds its five-year sword as a transmog reward
How long do you have to work at your current job before you get a sword? If you worked for Blizzard Entertainment, the answer...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry
Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
The Nostalrius team on hopes for a legacy World of Warcraft server
For those who can't get enough information about what led to the creation and maintenance of the Nostalrius World of Warcraft server, the site...
Rumor: Warcraft movie tix may include WoW for free in some regions
French World of Warcraft website Mamytwink.com is reporting that the purchase of Warcraft movie tickets through French cinema maven Kinepolis will be accompanied by...
Overwatch’s Winston: Are you with us?
Overwatch's Winston should probably not quit his day job, but you gotta love him anyway.
Blizzard has a new Overwatch trailer out today featuring our...
Check out a fan-made recreation of World of Warcraft’s Duskwood in Unreal Engine 4
A lot of graphical improvements have happened for World of Warcraft over the years, but the game is still using the same fundamental graphical...
The Daily Grind: Are you ever sad when you levelcap in an MMORPG?
I recently levelcapped another character in Guild Wars 2, my Asura Guardian, and yet as soon as she dinged, some of the spark of...
The MOP Up: Allods’ Gibberling Festival (May 1, 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...
The Daily Grind: What could get you to love a MOBA?
I am very admittedly not a fan of MOBAs, despite the fact that I quite liked the map type that birthed the genre in...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO business models
Not too long ago, there was all but one way that you would pay for an MMO, and that was as a monthly subscription....
Leaderboard: What must a classic WoW server have to make you play it?
Word yesterday that Blizzard has invited the "progressive vanilla" Nostalrius emulator team to Blizz HQ, presumably to discuss World of Warcraft and not the...
