blizzcon 2024
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
WoW Factor: Thoughts on World of Warcraft getting housing and Classic Classic fresh start servers
With no BlizzCon this year and a pretty full and constantly updating roadmap for World of Warcraft unfolding (including this month's 20th anniversary activities),...
Warcraft Direct: World of Warcraft Midnight has player housing, WoW Classic Pandaria in 2025, and WoW Classic Classic
Friends, today is not-BlizzCon, which is to say that Blizzard decided not to hold a BlizzCon event in the year when World of Warcraft...
WoW Factor: Is World of Warcraft’s War Within the ‘come back’ expansion Blizzard wanted it to be?
It was two years ago this month that World of Warcraft players were riding out the final days of one of its most disappointing...
Casually Classic: Looking back at my 20+ year journey in World of Warcraft
When was the first time you ever heard of World of Warcraft? As a fan of the three Warcraft RTS titles, I became aware of...
Blizzard’s BlizzCon-substitute ‘what’s next’ stream for the Warcraft franchise airs next month
As World of Warcraft is throwing a 20th anniversary rager to end all ragers this week, it's totally not confusing at all for Blizzard...
Jason Schreier’s new book blames Activision – and the Titan MMO’s cancelation – for Blizzard’s degradation
When Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced he was stepping down from his 27-year-run at the company back in 2018, he didn't give much of...
Blizzard talks Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred’s mercenaries, Dark Citadel raid, and party finder
During Opening Night Live at Gamescom yesterday afternoon, Blizzard's Johanna Faries took the stage to chat about everything coming Blizzard's way over the next...
Blizzard promises a ‘robust footprint’ at Gamescom for WoW, Diablo, and Overwatch 2 celebrations
During not-E3's Xbox showcase, Blizzard hinted very strongly that it would have more reveals and festivities coming later in the summer, which made sense...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 467: The end of an ArcheAge
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge's sunset, the cancellation of BlizzCon 2024, Escape from Tarkov's no good very bad day, Age of Water's early access launch, and the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Fallout 4, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on defensive characters in MMOs and whether Crowfall has any kind of future.
WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?
Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...
As Warcraft turns 30, Blizzard has preemptively canceled BlizzCon for 2024
Well, you can read the headline: There's no BlizzCon this year after all, in spite of the fact that this is Warcraft's 30th anniversary...
WoW Factor: What’s a Mists of Pandaria remix and why is World of Warcraft doing it?
In hindsight, I feel like I was gentler toward Season of Mastery than I should have been. World of Warcraft has turned everything into...
Hearthstone launches co-op Battlegrounds Duos with April 16’s season 7
Blizzard has taken the stress-free packaging off its new Hearthstone toy, announcing the impending launch of Battlegrounds Duos, which the team first previewed at...
Daybreak’s EverQuest-themed Fippyfest fan event will cost in-person attendees $1499
Last week, when Daybreak announced it's planning a live/digital EverQuest community event called Fippyfest in June, the studio said it'd be opening ticket sales...
Casually Classic: Is it worth playing into World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm Classic?
Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there's nothing on that would hit the...
