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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Diablo Immortal celebrates the dawn of the Lunar New Year
What's better, the new year or Lunar New Year? It does seem like the second one sees more events in MMOs, such as the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 502: Chronicling all the non-combat content in MMOs
Justin and Bree host the first MMO theme show of 2025 with a deep-dive into the wide range of non-combat content in our genre, plus adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, Stars Reach, and Aloft.
Interview: Notorious’ Chris Kaleiki on the ‘MMO bones’ in extraction RPG Legacy Steel and Sorcery
If you’re a fan of extraction shooters but want more high-fantasy RPG elements then I’ve got something in store for you: Legacy: Steel and...
Lawful Neutral: All the big MMO-related law stories from 2024, from Palworld to Blizzard
2024 was another quiet year on the gaming legal front. I think various AI dramas and associated legislative hand-wringing sucked all the air out...
Diablo IV gets super witchy with next week’s Season of Witchcraft
The next big era for Diablo IV is right around the corner, as the Season of Witchcraft kicks off on January 21st with a...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite classic World of Warcraft dungeon?
Last week, WoW Classic Classic pushed along with its planned release timetable, adding in two old world bosses, refurbing the honor system, and opening...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most played MMOs in 2025?
So here we are at the top of another year, looking ahead at what we think we're going to play. Consider this week's Massively...
Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios announces Arkheron, a new PvP game he says defies easy description
Way back in 2016, when MassivelyOP was still young and innocent, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo announced a new development studio...
Not So Massively: What we’d like to see from a StarCraft shooter
According to the rumour mill, Blizzard is currently working on a shooter game in the StarCraft universe - again. By my counting this would...
World of Warcraft Classic will add the Karazhan Crypts with the next phase of Season of Discovery
Well, they did it. They finally freaking did it. Years after players were finding the hidden crypt segment beneath Karazhan in World of Warcraft that...
Craig Morrison’s new studio is taking test signups for that ‘horse mystery’ MMORPG
Readers might recall that way back in July of last year, former Funcom and Blizzard luminary Craig Morrison announced he was studio director of...
World of Warcraft offers a new snake mount for six-month subscribers
Did you know it's the year of the snake? It's true. If you leave your house, you may at any time be greeted by...
Diablo IV’s Season of Witchcraft finally arrives next week on January 21
Blizzard has set a hard date for Diablo IV's next season, and it's the witchy one that the studio has already been testing since...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 501: Moving, money, and modding
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's new server plan, Stars Reach's Kickstarter plan, PlanetSide 2's limbo, Elder Scrolls Online's new DLC, and roadmaps for EverQuest and EverQuest II, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, SWG Legends, and a ton of smaller games, plus a mailbag topics on modding and MMOs.
World of Warcraft activates multiple weeks of Timewalking expansions and brings back Plunderstorm today
As World of Warcraft players count down the days until Patch 11.1: Undermined releases, there's plenty to keep them occupied. Blizzard recently activated seven...
Interview: NCsoft America’s new CEO, Jeonghee Jin, on awakening the ‘sleeping giant in the West’
A few years ago, I attended Black Desert Online's Heidel Ball, one of the yearly events that Pearl Abyss holds to make major announcements for...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever let someone else level your MMO account? You know, like Musk did in Path of Exile 2
Claims that tech tycoon and Twitter mismanager Elon Musk is some sort of Diablo and Path of Exile savant gave way last week to...
Scars of Honor speed-runs you through four years of its MMO development history
Coming in hot in the new year with some self-promotion after a quieter period of development is Scars of Honor, a classic-feeling MMORPG in the...
Diablo III reruns the Light’s Calling theme for its Season 34 starting January 24
Thematically speaking, fighting the legions of Hell with the power of divine light kind of makes sense, even if a world like Sanctuary sees...
Participation metrics suggest World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ dungeon runs are at an ‘all-time low’
If you've been finding it harder to form a Mythic+ dungeon group in World of Warcraft: The War Within, it would appear that it's...
