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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Overwatch 2 steps up its technology game with a DirectX 12 beta
Overwatch 2 is taking steps this week to stay on top of the technology curve, as Blizzard announced that it's running a beta for...
Blizzard lays out the design pillars for World of Warcraft’s accessible neighborhood housing
The news that World of Warcraft is getting housing with its next expansion, Midnight, shocked the whole MMORPG genre - and us too, as...
World of Warcraft’s state of the game vows an improved new player experience and social initiatives
World of Warcraft is surprisingly chatty this Wednesday, with an article on Patch 11.1's cartels earlier today and a housing preview (!) in a...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs (and MMO-adjacent games) you can play on Nintendo Switch in 2025
In our family, there's an ongoing joke that I was the one who got the Nintendo Switch as a birthday present a few years...
World of Warcraft previews the cartels you’ll align with in the Undermine(d) update
Look, you might think that you get to be a big shot, don't ya, get to open up your mouth in World of Warcraft......
Massively OP Podcast Episode 504: The legacy MMO devs leave behind
Justin and Bree remember Project Gorgon's Sandra Powers, with discussion on EVE Online's roadmap, World of Warcraft's Undermine(d), No Man's Sky's and Worlds II, plus adventures in LOTRO, Project Gorgon, WoW Classic, and The Sims 4, and of course mailbag topics on removing and adding things to MMOs to make them better and identifying the major features MMOs just won't do.
Love is in the air in World of Warcraft through February 17
It's funny how the people who insist that World of Warcraft is named World of Warcraft and somust be all war, all the time...
Diablo III’s rerun of the Light’s Calling for Season 34 releases following its scheduling delay
Diablo III fans who were ready to relive the Light's Calling theme for the OARPG's Season 34 had to sit and wait for a...
LOTRO Legendarium: How well does Lord of the Rings Online fulfill class fantasy?
It was several World of Warcraft expansions ago -- Legion, most likely -- that the development team at Blizzard really got worked up over...
World of Warcraft has likely made millions from its $90 pay-to-win dino mount
Last October, World of Warcraft elected to celebrate its 20th anniversary by selling a $90 mount with mail and auction house features baked in....
Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2 compensate players for recent tech and sale bungles
This is a tale of two MMO studios and how they handled recent fiascos competently. Happy Friday!
First, ArenaNet announced last night that it is...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs where suddenly you’re a different character now
I was recently thumbing through my Lord of the Rings Online screenshots when I stumbled into one I'd taken of a player's extremely smart...
Diablo IV details Season of Witchcraft’s features and an upcoming Lunar New Year event
If you're the kind of person who doesn't absorb information about the new season in Diablo IV unless it's in video form, then you're...
Vague Patch Notes: Bad MMOs happen – but not because nobody cares
When I first started working at Massively-that-was, I got a bit of a wake-up call pretty early on when I made a joke about...
Vaultbreakers – fka Project F4E – is an upcoming co-op extraction OARPG that isn’t a shooter
Anybody out there remember BetaDwarf's upcoming MMO Project F4E? You'd be forgiven if you didn't. It was first announced in 2021 as Project Haven,...
World of Warcraft shows off the new customizable cars coming with the Undermine(d) update
No matter how hard you might try in World of Warcraft, you cannot replace your horse's hooves. There are no tools to lower the...
Marvel Snap has a new US publisher: Marvel Heroes boss David Brevik’s Skystone Games
Marvel Snap players have been through a lot over the last few weeks: The game was taken out in the crossfire of the US...
Microsoft dispels World of Warcraft Game Pass rumors sparked by its own marketing email snafu
When Microsoft spent billions to buy out Activision-Blizzard (and then carved that cost out of the hide of its workforce), many gamers were salivating...
World of Warcraft kicks off Lunar New Year, Season of Discovery phase 7, and Mythic+ revision
World of Warcraft is having a busy week in multiple versions of the game, but let's start with the holiday: the Lunar Festival is...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 503: The Quinfail
Justin and Bree discuss The Quinfall's messy early access, Camelot Unchained's worrisome future, New World's broken servers, and Throne and Liberty's server merge, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallout 76, WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, and Playnite, plus a mailbag topic on what kind of MMO character template we have IRL.
