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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.

Emmy-winning composer Russell Brower talks about making Tarisland’s soundtrack

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Whatever concerns or qualms you might have about Tencent's upcoming Tarisland, the soundtrack shouldn't be one of them. That's because the game signed on...
Sure, great, very efficient.

Vague Patch Notes: What does the future of MMORPGs look like?

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the history of MMORPGs as a market and PC gaming in general, suggesting at...
Sunset on original ideas.

WoW Classic Hardcore schedules self-found mode for Leap Day

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It's not every year that you get a Leap Day, so why not make that bonus day a little extra special? WoW Classic is...

Overwatch 2 makes a series of character tuning updates for its latest season

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With Overwatch 2 now into its hero-changing ninth season, the devs of the PvP shooter have begun the process of tuning character balance in...

WoW Classic dev explains sharding and layering strategies for Season of Discovery

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As WoW Classic left #NoChanges abandoned on the side of the road hundreds of miles ago, the legacy server trekked on to forge its...
great work, guy!

Xbox’s Phil Spencer insists Microsoft’s mass-layoffs position it for future growth, somehow

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Everyone just loves Phil Spencer these days, right? Oh, right, all the layoffs. Probably not, then. But according to a recent interview with Game...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs stop making us heroes?

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The other day I was watching a rather excellent 40-minute video of a RuneScape player who dived head-first into all of the versions of...

Diablo II: Resurrected sets up a new ladder season this week

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It's time to go climbing that ladder into -- or is it out of? -- hell once again in Diablo II Resurrected. Blizzard announced that...
Among all the many, many ways you are terrible.

Microsoft’s layoffs will result in over 800 cut Activision-Blizzard jobs in March

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As Microsoft workers reel from news of impending mass-layoffs of 1900 employees, we've received more clarity on which specific Activision-Blizzard teams are being slashed...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG’s graphics hold up long past their due?

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When Dark Age of Camelot first hit beta a million years ago, I remember being super impressed with its graphics. Up until that point,...
The fanboy mines are harder to work all the time.

Argentinian World of Warcraft players say the game is ‘dead’ after January pricing changes

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Argentinian fans of World of Warcraft are sounding the alarm over Blizzard's decision to change both the cost of subscription to the MMORPG and...
Flips

The Soapbox: Why I’m OK with ‘missing’ attacks in City of Heroes

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The other day in the MassivelyOP work chat, we were talking about City of Heroes. Shocking, I know. But I've mentioned before that I...
big storm

Blizzard is laying off over 126 people from its support center in Ireland

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The massive culling of 1,900 workers by Microsoft looks to have had a significant global impact, as Ireland's minister for foreign affairs Michéal Martin...

Global Chat: What are the top dragons in EverQuest?

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If you were pressed to put together a top 10 list of the most famous and infamous dragons in EverQuest, which beasties would you...

WoW Classic details class changes coming to Season of Discovery February 20

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The second phase of the Season of Discovery in WoW Classic is already well underway by now, but players may want to pay attention...

Diablo IV lands on Xbox Game Pass March 28, Sea of Thieves will expand to PS5 and the Switch

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During the much-touted Xbox podcast this afternoon, we learned not just that only four Xbox titles will be set free for other consoles but...

Haven is a co-op focused MMORPG being built by Blizzard, EA, and Turbine veterans

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Merriam-Webster defines the word "haven" as "a place of safety offering favorable opportunities or conditions," but one might argue that most MMORPGs aren't...
It just keeps happening.

WoW Factor: Steve Danuser was not really the problem with World of Warcraft

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So I don't want to sit here and say "oh, things were going so great" before the news that Steve Danuser had actually left...

Diablo IV releases its uber unique crafting system, tries selling portal effects for $30

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How much would you pay to get some differently colored portal effects in Diablo IV? Evidently Blizzard believes that fans will shell out $30...
This went over great.

Narrative director Steve Danuser quietly left World of Warcraft last fall

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It turns out that World of Warcraft's narrative director left Blizzard last November and no one said anything about it. No, that doesn't mean...

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