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MMO Week in Review: BlizzCon 2016 (November 6, 2016)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
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Nostalrius releases WoW emu source code to community, Elysium plans Nostalrius shards
Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the now-sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a vague threat. "If Blizzard doesn’t make an announcement...
Leaderboard: How much do you expect to pay for the Diablo III Necro pack?
Diablo's 25th anniversary announcements at BlizzCon have been welcomed by some players and blasted by others. While a significant portion of the content --...
The Daily Grind: What was your favorite part of BlizzCon?
BlizzCon 2016 was really hit-and-miss from my perspective. On the one hand, there was some really great stuff in there, like the discussion of...
BlizzCon 2016: World of Warcraft Q&A panel
And now, we come to the final liveblog we'll be doing for BlizzCon 2016, the part of the event when several World of Warcraft fans...
BlizzCon 2016: World of Warcraft’s Legion design panel liveblog
How did we end up here? This World of Warcraft expansion is crawling with demons. It smells like brimstone. No, really, how did we...
BlizzCon 2016: Diablo’s 20th anniversary panel liveblog
Has it really been two decades since Diablo first showed up on the computer gaming scene? Apparently so because why else would BlizzCon 2016...
BlizzCon 2016: WoW’s Tomb of Sargeras and beyond to Argus
World of Warcraft's "What's Next" panel this evening more than made up for the game's lackluster mention during the BlizzCon opening ceremonies earlier in...
BlizzCon 2016: World of Warcraft’s What’s Next liveblog
The future of World of Warcraft involves a lot of green fire. Of course, the present involves a lot of green fire, that's sort...
BlizzCon 2016: Play Heroes of the Storm for Overwatch loot
Part of Blizzard's cross-promotional pitch at this year's BlizzCon has been dubbed "The Nexus Challenge," and let's be honest: It is a plain attempt...
BlizzCon 2016: Diablo III’s Necromancer class and classic Diablo experience
If you missed the BlizzCon liveblog (or fell asleep before the ending), you missed the best part and the biggest cheers: Blizzard announced big...
BlizzCon 2016: Hearthstone announces Gadgetzan expansion pack
If you've ever been to Gadgetzan in World of Warcraft, you might not have walked away with an impression that you had just visited...
BlizzCon 2016: You’ll never see Overwatch’s Sombra coming
It's time to get past the faux-surprise over Sombra's official announcement at BlizzCon to start getting prepped for her arrival. The newest Overwatch hero will take...
BlizzCon 2016: Opening ceremony liveblog
Here we go again, one and all: It's time for Massively Overpowered's BlizzCon 2016 liveblogs! It's a time-honored tradition, by which I mean to...
WoW Factor: BlizzCon betting odds
My original plan this week was to talk a little bit about patch 7.1, but two things have made that less than possible. The...
Buy a Massively OP ‘MoCree’ Overwatch parody tee in honor of BlizzCon
If Massively Overpowered's Mo and the Sword & Bored comic crew went to BlizzCon, whom would they cosplay? "Over"watch characters, of course.
Introducing the official...
The Daily Grind: What’s your one wish/prediction for BlizzCon 2016?
BlizzCon 2016 kicks off today;Â in fact, our first liveblog covering the opening ceremonies begins this afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT. And we've already pretty...
Mark Kern posts new WoW Legacy server petition ahead of BlizzCon
There's yet another petition related to legacy World of Warcraft servers live this week, this one begun by Mark Kern himself.
Kern (more on his backstory...
Overwatch ARG keeps teasing the game’s worst-kept secret
Unless you're a deep conspiracy theorist who has a hunch that Blizzard is preparing to spring the biggest mind-screw of all time, then it's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 89: The book of Revelation
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Trove, RIFT, The Secret World, WoW, ArcheAge, Star Trek Online, EVE, and EverQuest, with mailbag questions on Hellgate London, WoW, and what players spend on MMOs.
