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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The Game Archaeologist: Dark Sun Online
Computer RPG players in the late '80s and early '90s were surely familiar with Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) and its now-famous Gold Box series....
WoW Factor: Cataclysm was bad, but revamping the world isn’t
For about four years, Cataclysm handily defended its title of Worst World of Warcraft Expansion, coming in behind all of the actual expansions as...
Perfect Ten: Weird questions that I want answered before I play an MMO
Jumping into a new-to-me MMO can be a heady, nerve-wracking event. I think there's a reason why we find our "comfort" games and feel...
World of Warcraft and RuneScape make Twitch’s top games list for September
Don't put much stock in what people are playing on Raptr? What about what people are watching on Twitch?
The streaming giant recently released its September...
Overwatch designer Geoff Goodman on characters, balancing, and community maps
The experience of developing Overwatch is very different from that of other Blizzard games; it's a new IP for the company, and it's a...
Global Chat: Why is Blizzard so sluggish?
World of Warcraft: Legion and Blizzard's recent decisions were at the forefront of a couple of recent MMO blog posts as of late, their authors...
Not So Massively: Cloud Imperium threatens a lawsuit (October 5, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Sword and Bored: Costume designer
Mo gets to mess around with his MMO's cosmetic outfit system. Amilya "helps" him, of course.
The Game Archaeologist: The assassination of Lord British
At the end of August 2015, the fledgling Shroud of the Avatar community gathered together for a massive PvP fight. This wasn't to be...
Choose My MOBA: LoL vs. Dota 2 vs. SMITE
A while back I became a fledgling MOBA fan thanks to Infinite Crisis. Unfortunately for me, Turbine decided to kill its DC universe battler...
World of Warcraft prepares for its annual Halloween event
It's the most wonderful time of the year, everyone. No, not December; it's October and a month full of Halloween-related festivities. World of Warcraft...
Perfect Ten: Why big MMO expansions are a good thing
I'm not really on board with the trend of saying that big expansions are back. They never left. Sure, we have one coming out...
Massively OP’s first impressions of Devilian
Call my stance on Trion World's upcoming Devilian "oh-so-cautiously interested."
Personally, I think Trion invited more grief than it wanted with the importation of ArcheAge to...
World of Warcraft adds stuff to its cash shop
Blizzard has added a bunch of character services to World of Warcraft's cash shop. Apparently being able to buy them all "from the comfort...
WoW Factor: A wishlist for World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion
We're going to find out a lot about World of Warcraft:Â Legion in November. Not just because I expect that'll be around the time we...
Jukebox Heroes: Your top 20 favorite MMO soundtracks
I've been a sneaky columnist, my friends. Oh yes I have. In my last Jukebox Heroes I posted my top six favorite MMO soundtracks,...
The Daily Grind: How often are your MMO goals thwarted?
I logged into Ultima Online over the weekend absolutely determined to achieve a very specific thing: imbue some gear for my Tamer. But first I wanted to...
Diablo III, Ark, and Warframe all climb on Raptr’s August stats
Raptr's monthly stat summaries remain the best possible way to track the popularity of games among the people who actually use Raptr. And it's...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOTCGs really MMOs?
We're coming down to the last few Kickstarter-submitted Daily Grind questions, and I admit I've been sitting on this particular one a while because...
Perfect Ten: Ten well-known voice actors behind SWTOR’s characters
When it launched, Star Wars: The Old Republic was one of the biggest video game voice-over projects that BioWare or any studio had ever...
