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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Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2024?
It's pretty much a given that every year when we announce our MMO of the year, someone's going to hop into the comments and...
Multiple game studios and even the Fallout TV show are impacted by the devastating California wildfires
If you're paying any attention to the current US news, you know that large parts of dense Los Angeles, California, are under siege by...
World of Warcraft is hiking subscription prices in Australia and New Zealand
Who doesn't like paying more for things? Wait. Sorry. The answer to that is "everyone," and so you can imagine that residents of Australia...
Meet the World of Warcraft hardcore mode guild that turns its gameplay into a roleplayed soap opera
Many of the staff here at MOP grew up in a very special age of soap operas, with shows like Melrose Place, Guiding Light,...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond
As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...
World of Warcraft’s Undermine update is up on the test server – let the datamining begin
If you've long waited to go to the Goblin capital in World of Warcraft, your chance is now here. Not on the live game...
World of Warcraft is adding a third tribute to Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen in the form of an NPC in patch 11.1
There are already two memorials for the player Mats "Ibelin" Steen, a World of Warcraft player who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, within the...
Casually Classic: What does WoW Classic’s future look like?
Welcome to 2025, WoW Classic fans! What began as a somewhat reluctant legacy version of this MMO a little over five years ago has...
Heroes of the Storm’s next patch brings back Brawls – permanently – after nearly five years
As has now become almost a regular habit, another patch has gone up the test realm for Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's ostensibly maintenance-moded...
World of Warcraft player records playing with every single addon loaded
MMO players know there are a lot of World of Warcraft mods after 20 years of live service. In fact, there are nearly 3700...
The Daily Grind: Which game or studio made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2024?
So here's another fun annual Daily Grind that always gets people good and angry. And believe it or not, I'm not going to nominate...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO goals and resolutions for 2025
Every year when we post this traditional Massively Overthinking roundtable, at least one person on staff dithers because not every one does "resolutions." We...
End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMOs at the top of 2025
So here we are again, at the transition for another year, and let me tell you that I am glad this column went a...
The great and majestic One Shots Awards of 2024
Forget all of those other Massively OP awards you've seen cross your desktop for the past few weeks -- we all know that there's only...
LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2025 roadmap and new server panic
There's nothing like being far away from home on a late-December vacation only to get the notice that, hey, Lord of the Rings Online...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMO expansions of 2024
Around the Massively OP office, the common consensus is that 2024 ended up being the Year of the MMO Expansion. After all, we got...
WoW Classic players manage to recreate the infamous Corrupted Blood event
One of the most notable community-sparked events of vanilla World of Warcraft in 2005 came back again in 2024.
This would be the Corrupted Blood...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
The Daily Grind: Did you hit the level cap in any MMORPGs this year?
As we reflect on the weird and often unpredictable journey through MMOs in 2024, it's always interesting to look back on one's accomplishments (or...
PSA: Diablo IV is free to play through the end of the year
In a move that by no means is counter-programming to Path of Exile 2's recent early access launch, Blizzard announced that it is making...
