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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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s housing design is exactly what we need
I haven't weighed in on this tiny little insignificant World of Warcraft housing news since it dropped last November, mostly because I've been waiting to...
Overwatch 2 unveils new perks system, third-person game mode, new heroes, and the return of lockboxes
It would appear that the blowout success of another team vs. team hero shooter has helped prompt Overwatch 2 out of stagnation and into...
World of Warcraft offers a short audio story ahead of Undermine(d)’s release
So there's a new video out ahead of the next World of Warcraft patch, except it isn't actually a video. It's what amounts to...
Don’t expect a Diablo IV expansion this year: Blizzard now says it’s aiming for 2026
Changing its mind is a downright Blizzard tradition in these here parts, so let's not act too surprised that the studio decided to go...
The Daily Grind: What MMO promotion did you miss that you wish you hadn’t?
Recently we reported on how a one-month charity drive in World of Warcraft resulted in players effectively raising $2M to cure a rare form...
Legacy Steel & Sorcery, an extraction-focused ‘mini MMORPG’ from former WoW devs, just hit early access
As promised, extraction RPG Legacy Steel & Sorcery is officially hitting early access today, and it's one we've paid a bit more attention to...
NCsoft Q4 2024: Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are doing great, with Aion 2 waiting in the wings
The MMO company financial news just keeps coming this week as now we've got NCsoft's Q4 2024 financial report, and no, this one isn't...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO games, events, and ideas hitting the decade mark in 2025
A decade is a long time. It's kind of weird that we don't think much about games or shows or whatever hitting the decade...
Obituary: World of Warcraft and SWTOR sound artist John Kurlander has passed away
You may not be overly familiar with the name John Kurlander, but we promise you that your ears have experienced his work. Kurlander was...
Diablo Immortal tasks players with literally stealing hearts in its Feast of Valenti event February 12
Usually when someone says they stole a person's heart, they're talking metaphorically, as in they captured the affection of their partner. That's not going...
World of Warcraft’s Undermine(d) is going live February 25
Ready to drive cars around, work for a cartel, and wander the city streets? No, World of Warcraft is not sending you to New...
Choose My Adventure: Mulling over the many (many!) playable variants of Aion
This past weekend didn't see me touch Aion at all for Choose My Adventure - partially because I have had some projects line up...
Diablo luminary David Brevik argues fast levels and loot in modern ARPGs ‘cheapen the experience’
Why do you play ARPGs? Is it to face swaths of monsters to mow them down and get showered in digital gore and shiny...
The MOP Up: Villagers and Heroes invites you to test-drive a raptor
Villagers and Heroes posted a preview of its upcoming Patch 5.40.5, with Sugarsweet Summithas, raptor mounts, lots of changes to frontier zones, raid balancing,...
World of Warcraft’s charity fox raises over $2 million for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research
Last December, we reported on how Blizzard started selling a special fox-and-backpack bundle in World of Warcraft to raise funds to help cure Duchenne...
LOTRO Legendarium: Baubles are the stealth feature LOTRO needed
Cast your memory back to last fall when Lord of the Rings Online's current expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, was announced. While there was excitement...
Casually Classic: Why vanilla Classic’s quest system was an industry revolution
In every retrospective covering World of Warcraft's explosive success out of the gate, there's a lot of effort spent trying to put a finger...
Vague Patch Notes: How long do online games truly get to live?
I'm going to start this article by asking a question I don't actually want an answer to: How long has Minecraft been popular?
Objectively there...
‘We are designing it to last for decades’: Stars Reach is hoping for ‘a few hundred thousand players’
Are you feeling the hype yet from the approach of the Stars Reach Kickstarter? Because Playable Worlds is kinda going all out with blogs...
WoW Classic Cataclysm heads into its final hour… of Twilight
The original WoW Classic servers -- how weird it is to type that -- now are cruising down the final stretch of Cataclysm Classic's...
