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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.

Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time

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In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...

World of Warcraft welcomes players back to the skies

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It's been a good while since World of Warcraft players have been able to fly in high-level zones, but as of today the skies...

Russian site leaks 40 seconds of the Warcraft movie trailer

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World of Warcraft fans continue to eagerly await the release of the Warcraft movie trailer in a couple of months. If they -- or...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO testing experience you’ve ever had?

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I know I'm not alone in feeling beta-fatigue. I hear the same things I feel from you folks in our comments and from our...

WoW’s 6.2.2 patch launches tomorrow

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If you're still playing World of Warcraft, you may or may not be aware that the game's 6.2.2 patch debuts on September 1st. It...
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WoW Factor: Wild guessing about Demon Hunters

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So what's the deal with World of Warcraft's Demon Hunter? We just don't know yet. But the space to speculate is pretty awesome. I mentioned...

Eco as an academic tool: Educating with PvE survival and permadeath

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Like the idea of survival games, but not PvP? Wish your class involved video games? Maybe you want to doom humanity to choking itself...

Guild Chat: Finding MMO fun without your guildmates

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Good news, everyone: I'm back with an unexpected edition of Guild Chat for you! Observant Massively Overpowered readers might have noticed that I rotate...

Blizzard joins S&P 500 stock market index

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If it wasn't clear before now, Blizzard's debut on a stock index further goes to show that the game studio is one of the...

Perfect Ten: Amazing MMO cosplay

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I have nothing but deep respect for cosplayers because on two levels they are performing activities that I cannot. First of all, they put...

Mobile game replicates the World of Warcraft raid healing experience

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Healers are the often unsung heroes of any MMO raid, spending hours staring at health bars while the rest of the group gets to...

World of Warcraft unlocks Archimonde fight for raid finder

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There's now nothing standing between you and PUG raid success in World of Warcraft's Hellfire Citadel, except perhaps gear, skill, and ill-timed AFKs. Blizzard announced...

Global Chat: Returning to WildStar for F2P

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Many WildStar fans, past and present, are digging into the sumptuous buffet of the free-to-play patch on the test server for a better idea...

Diablo III patch adds new zone and the powerful Kanai’s Cube

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Diablo III players, your journey is not yet complete. Today, Blizzard released the game's 2.3.0 patch, giving adventurers more territory to explore and goals...
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Hearthstone launches The Grand Tournament today

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You could be forgiven for saying that The Grand Tournament sounds more like an event than an expansion for Hearthstone. But it is an...

Not So Massively: Path of Exile’s crafting scandal; Sins of a Dark Age’s sunset

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This week in Not So Massively games, League of Legends players revealed a reproducible exploit that causes skillshot projectiles to become invisible and may...

One Shots: Quiet grace

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When I take pictures of people in real life, I almost never ask them to pose. That feels so artificial to me; I'd rather...

The Game Archaeologist: Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE

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It became one of the most infamous moments in MMO history -- and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. For all that the MMO community...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO prison?

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Fictional prisons can be pretty fascinating to explore in books and video games. I've noticed that pretty much every MMO has at least one...

Why individual MMOs and MOBAs are their own market

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There's an interesting think piece on Medium that tackles misconceptions when it comes to trying to pigeonhole players and games into categories. The crux...

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