blizzcon 2019

Almost exactly a year ago, I declared that the Blizzard I loved is dead, in reaction to the Blitzchung/Hearthstone/Hong Kong fiasco. Twelve months later, that...

Even as the world continues to turn to and normalize gaming as a respectable hobby, there's still a lingering stigma of playing online titles...

Last year, I counted it up: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively was...

I feel like a broken record saying this, but the success of a blog is not just about page views or ad impressions or...

So how did this year go for Blizzard Entertainment? Well... badly. You cannot have missed all of that. But it also went badly in...

When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...

Many of us here on the Massively OP staff have our own personal pet projects and interests that might not be as widespread as...

The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...

It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst MMO dev quotes...

Here we are on another Thanksgiving holiday, and as with every year, one of the big things I'm thankful for is that I've now...

When World of Warcraft: Shadowlands arrives, every individual class will be choosing between four different class-specific abilities via the Covenants. Of course, enterprising fans on...

Undoubtedly, there is a lot of time between now and Diablo IV's launch, whenever that will be. This means that the online ARPG is...

For just a few short weeks of its now 15-year lifespan, EverQuest II existed apart from a launched World of Warcraft. Then late November...

It's a bit long in the tooth now with BlizzCon well behind us, but the Esports Observer published an interview with Blizzard's J. Allen...

If you're keen on a little something new in your games of Hearthstone -- say, a mode that doesn't have any cards in it...

Much to my own surprise, the announcement that most excited me at BlizzCon this year was not from any of the franchises I usually...

So, just how will Blizzard make sweet, sweet money off of Diablo IV? Expansions, surely. A cash shop, apparently. And that cash shop will...

During last week's Activision-Blizzard investor call, Blizzard executives dodged hard on one analyst's question about WoW Classic retention - no great surprise there, really,...

Last week, it was players, game industry leaders, and congress against Blizzard in the matter of Hearthstone player Blitzchung's sentencing over pro-Hong Kong statements....

If it's seemed to you like Overwatch just hasn't gotten as many fun seasonal events or unusual updates for a while, that's because it's true....