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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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...
Nostalrius admins to meet with WoW execs
Earlier this week, Blizzard responded to calls for a vanilla World of Warcraft server by suggesting it wouldn't do a vanilla server but would...
Global Chat: What can MMORPG devs do to foster community?
One of the neat aspects of the MMO blogosphere is how writers will often interact and collaborate with each other. Recently, four bloggers ganged...
Hearthstone announces 50 million registered players
The latest Hearthstone expansion release coincides with another bombshell for the game, with an official announcement from Activision Blizzard boasting that the game has...
Massively Overthinking: Trinities and quaternities in MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic was inspired from Jake, who wrote in to us wondering about roles in MMORPG classes and group content:
"What happened to roles?...
Perfect Ten: Ten City of Heroes systems every MMO should have stolen by now
Today, City of Heroes turns 12Â years old. Except it doesn't; the game shut down three years ago, it never lived until it reached twelve,...
The Division’s cheating plague may be a result of its bad network model, consultant argues
The Division just can't catch a break.
Glenn Fiedler, a former lead network programmer for Sony and Respawn and current games tech consultant, says that...
Stormwind Park will (finally) be rebuilt in World of Warcraft: Legion
For the past six years, World of Warcraft's Stormwind Park has been a smoking crater in the otherwise beautiful city thanks to Deathwing. Players...
Massively OP’s guide to understanding video game research
I noticed two strange things in the comments section of our lengthy Exploring the Video Game Debate series: People were angry at research that...
World of Warcraft: Legion is bumping the gold cap up to nearly 10 million
Are you a high roller in World of Warcraft? Do you frequently make it rain on lesser players? Do you see things that cost...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Blizzard’s idea of a ‘pristine’ WoW server?
Yesterday's big news in the ongoing Nostalrius saga was a message from Blizzard's J. Allen Brack, who suggested to players that in lieu of...
