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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Splatoon is Nintendo’s first serious entry into online gaming
Gaming giant Nintendo is no stranger to online play, but its online play usually comes with distinct limitations on the game that features it. The Animal Crossing series takes...
One Shots: The infinite summons
One of the stranger Final Fantasy tropes is that the more powerful a summoned creature is, the longer it would take for any given...
The Game Archaeologist: The Matrix Online
It's not every year that a movie comes along that captures the pop culture zeitgeist so powerfully and so quickly as The Matrix did....
World of Warcraft inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame
If you had to pick six of the most influential video games in history, what would they be?
For a panel of experts at the...
World of Warcraft previews the bosses of Hellfire Citadel
It's been said that World of Warcraft's patch 6.2 will not be the end of the expansion's patch cycle, but boy, it sure does...
Overwatch shows off the turret-building gameplay of Torbjörn
Torbjörn, aside from having a name that's very satisfying to type when you're familiar with Unicode inputs, is a simple kind of guy. He...
Hearthstone welcomes new heroes to the table
Something intriguing is afoot over at Hearthstone. Blizzard. announced today that it's preparing to introduce new heroes -- not classes -- to its successful...
See Overwatch’s Reaper in all of his dark, billowing action
Reaper's life in Overwatch is pretty difficult. His whole schtick is being dark and mysterious and wraithly and so forth, but that can't work well...
The Daily Grind: Have you tried Heroes of the Storm?
So, Heroes of the Storm launched this week. And Infinite Crisis called it quits. That's an interesting and slightly regrettable one-two punch from my...
Heroes of the Storm gets an honest trailer
Surely you've heard of the honest trailer phenomenon, wherein a guy with an action movie trailer voice narrates footage of popular films, TV shows,...
World of Warcraft and Hearthstone get Heroes of the Storm cross-promotion items
Do you have any desire to play the newly launched Heroes of the Storm yet? What if we told you that you could get a...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs in a cultural decline?
An editorial over at Rock Paper Shotgun attempts to tie two topics together as one: why there will never be a World of Warcraft...
Global Chat: Blizzard’s war on flying
How is the MMO blogging community reacting to Blizzard's proclamation that flying mounts are grounded -- perhaps permanently -- in World of Warcraft? In...
Here’s the latest Hearthstone TV commercial
Have you seen the new Hearthstone TV commercial? It's up on the newly released MOBA's YouTube channel, in case you miss it on the...
A guide to Heroes of the Storm for MOBA newbies and MMORPG fans
So you've heard about MOBAs by now, right? Maybe you tried League of Legends, or the idea behind DOTA 2 was too confusing to inspire a...
World of Warcraft’s Ashran expands to a new area in patch 6.2
If you've been taking part in the battles over Ashran in World of Warcraft, it's understandable that you could be a little tired of...
Not So Massively: Heroes of the Storm’s launch; Need for Speed’s online DRM
Nintendo's quriky new online paint-battle game Splatoon officially launched this week to very positive reviews. Monster-battling game Moonrise entered early access and promises Pokémon-like...
SuperData’s Van Dreunen on tomorrow’s Heroes of the Storm launch
Tomorrow's the big day for Blizzard's entry into the crowded and uber-competitive MOBA market. Heroes of the Storm officially launches on June 2nd, and...
What World of Warcraft would look like in Unreal Engine
Many words have been spilled about World of Warcraft's relative immunity to aging due to its stylized graphics. And while that art style is...
Heroes of the Storm gears up for launch with double XP, launch streaming, and Blizzard brawling
Are you ready for Heroes of the Storm to launch? It is launching, tomorrow, and there's a lot of stuff going along with that...
