blizzcon 2018
The Daily Grind: What are you looking forward to the most in WoW Classic?
After all the PR mishaps and layoffs Blizzard's had since last fall's BlizzCon, I wouldn't have been too surprised to see the company delay...
World of Warcraft: Classic is now planned to get six phases of content over time
As we approach the planned launch of World of Warcraft: Classic, it turns out we're getting a larger number of content updates than were originally...
Blizzard posts update on WoW Classic, implies it’s still launching this summer
Earlier this week, in discussing other positions we'd like to hire extra writers for later this year, we fell on the topic of World...
Blizzard devs characterize layoffs as a ‘bloodbath’ as pro-unionization effort calls for Bobby Kotick’s resignation
A day after Activision-Blizzard announced record earnings and began laying off a reported 800 people, we're finally getting a clearer picture of the full...
The Daily Grind: What do you want out of World of Warcraft’s next expansion?
It's no secret that player engagement with World of Warcraft is down across the board, with even some of its most vocal supporters acknowledging...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019
Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
Activision investors are now investigating whether the Bungie split involves securities fraud
Two days ago, Activision and Bungie announced an early split of their long-running partnership, a split that transferred publishing rights for the franchise back...
Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime will leave planned advisory role in April
Back in October, Blizzard announced that Mike Morhaime was stepping down as president of the company after 27 years working there. While World of...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2018
We can't do an accurate "most popular MMORPG articles of 2018 by pageviews" list as we usually do thanks to skewed data from MOP's extensive...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2018
Everyone loves surprises, right? Not always. Even good surprises can be a disruption of our comfortable routines, and bad ones can downright ruin a...
WoW Factor: The great Superdata fall-off
The one down side to working ahead is that sometimes your schedule gets nudged around more than expected. I promise that a further look...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2018
We've got a lot of awards going out over the next couple of weeks about the "best" and "biggest" of this and that. But...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018
It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2018
With the turn of every new year, I know we are entering unexplored territory in the field of MMO news. No matter what we...
Blizzard sources dish on Warcraft Go, Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal, China, and Activision’s culture shift
Kotaku has a wild article up today ahead of the holiday with input from nearly a dozen anonymous current and former Blizzard employees spilling...
Even Blizzard was amused by the URL prankster who forwarded Diablo fans to Path of Exile
One of the fun sideshows going on during the whole BlizzCon Diablo Immortal center-ring fiasco was the dude who bought the playdiablo4.com domain and...
Activision draws heat over ignoring accessibility requirements as its stock continues tumbling
It's safe to say that Activision Blizzard took a bit of a drubbing after BlizzCon (you could read all about it on your cell...
The Daily Grind: Is the movement against LFG just privileging a different type of MMO player?
In the comments of a BlizzCon article a few weeks ago, there was an interesting discussion about content. One commenter argued that it didn't...
FFXIV Fan Festival 2018: Details from the press conference with Naoki Yoshida
In contrast to the high-octane trailer that had opened the day, the final event for the first day of the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival...
Hearthstone explores the lore and Loa of Rastakhan’s Rumble in latest hearthside chat
At this year's BlizzCon, we got our first look at the upcoming Hearthstone expansion, Rastakhan's Rumble, which centers around the Trolls of Azeroth and...
