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The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?
Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
Perfect Ten: MMOs that flirted with permadeath
This month, Dungeons and Dragons Online will be venturing where many MMORPGs have feared to tread: into the realm of officially supported permadeath. The...
Torchlight Frontiers’ new leveling system is deliciously old school
If you've been away from the Torchlight Frontiers alpha for a while, it might be worth giving this MMOARPG another look this week. Update...
Check out this 4K version of the original Diablo II intro cinematic made with AI
We're seeing quite a number of HD remasters in video games and retellings of classic movies, so perhaps it was only a matter of...
The MOP Up: FFXIV tickles the ivories
One of the best (of many) features in Final Fantasy XIV is its amazing soundtrack. And just when you think you've heard it all,...
Star Wars Galaxies emulator plans Carrie Fisher tribute event on December 27
When Carrie Fisher died two years ago this month, I actually sat in my car and cried. This is not something I normally do,...
Diablo’s David Brevik lambastes Blizzard over elimination of employee profit sharing
With the Diablo franchise taking heat from players over its mobile ambitions, Diablo II creator David Brevik decided to add more fuel to the...
Destiny 2 encourages players to invite friends for exclusive loot
Is it just me, or does "refer your friend to the game and get stuff" sort of undercut the idea that the most fun...
BlizzCon 2018: Diablo Immortal lore, zone, class, and Q&A recap
Blizzard's Wyatt Cheng and Matthew Burger took the stage for the Diablo Immortal Q&A panel at BlizzCon tonight, clearly aware of the drama swirling...
Blizzard will announce ‘Diablo-related news’ at BlizzCon, but it’s not what you want to hear
Lately there's been a whole lot of speculation surrounding Diablo, with rumors flying left and right about what may be in store for the...
A bug in Destiny 2 hints about a return to Saturn in the future
You generally expect hints about future content in games to come via lore or teaser images, not through bugs. Yet a bug is hinting...
Diablo ‘Reign of Terror’ merch in Blizz store revives speculation on Diablo IV
Set aside your French history knowledge for a sec and consider the phrase Reign of Terror in a new light: a light that also...
PAX West 2018: The PWE gauntlet of Neverwinter and Torchlight
If you had told me five years ago that Perfect World Entertainment would not only own but make many of the games that they...
PAX West 2018: First impressions of PWE’s Remnant From the Ashes
Traditionally, massively multiplayer games do not have a large presence on the expo floor for PAX, but many studios had large booths with loud...
The Daily Grind: If you were an MMO NPC, what items would you drop for the players who slay you?
I fell in love with an epic and frankly underrated Twitter thread from game dev Ben Porter this week. "If you were an NPC,...
Destiny 2’s 2.0 update paves the way for Destiny 2: Forsaken
There's no formatting wherein the Destiny 2 2.0 update doesn't look kind of messy. Those numbers should not follow one another like that. But...
Global Chat: Why roleplaying in MMOs matters
If you haven't visited Psychochild's Blog -- the brainchild of former Meridian 59 and Storybricks dev Brian Green -- lately, you are missing out...
Destiny 2’s Forsaken launch trailer has arrived to frame your expansion goals
Destiny 2 is still technically a week out from the September 4th launch of the Forsaken expansion, but that just means another week of...
Torchlight Frontiers is being built by an ‘all-star team’ of former Torchlight and Diablo II devs
"So now I am very, very pleased to announce to everybody that we are taking the next step with Torchlight and making an MMO."
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Blizzard teases ‘multiple Diablo projects in the works,’ with reveals ‘later this year’
It's not exactly a secret that Blizzard has been working on something Diablo-related for a while as we've been tracking the company as it...
