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WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and more to sunset in China following failed Blizzard-Netease licensing deal
Last week, as part of its Q3 2022 investor report, Activision-Blizzard included what we described as an ominous note about its apparent difficulties negotiating...
MMOs and MMORPGs fill several voting categories at this year’s Game Awards
While many of the categories that fans can vote on in this year's Game Awards certainly skew towards some of the heavy-hitting single-player titles...
Diablo Immortal merged a ton of servers with today’s update
How well is Diablo Immortal doing right now? Well, we've had a couple of clues: Its global launch in June wasn't enough to rescue...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2022: Blizzard MAUs and revenues are up as NetEase dispute looms on the horizon
Welcome back to our trimonthly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q3's results, comprising July, August, and September 2022....
Former Diablo producer discusses Activision’s heavy hand as Diablo Immortal adds character transfers
It's slowly becoming more obvious that the merger between Blizzard and Activision has had an indelible effect on the games coming from the studio,...
Diablo Immortal adds a pair of limited-time events for Halloween
I fully admit that I forgot entirely about Diablo Immortal, as it's been pretty quiet as Overwatch 2, WoW Classic, and Dragonflight have been...
Vague Patch Notes: Why are mobile MMOs Like That?
If you have read my writing a bunch over the years, you have probably observed me mentioning how much I like Final Fantasy Tactics...
Danish Center for Gambling Addiction warns parents about Diablo Immortal’s monetization tricks
The monetization model for mobile ARPG Diablo Immortal made plenty of headlines leading up to and during its launch. The costs of capping out...
Diablo IV is recruiting for its endgame beta – here’s what to expect
So this week's Diablo IV announcement is good news and bad news. The good news is Blizzard is moving to what it's calling a...
Perfect Ten: Recent promising MMOs that died before they were born
Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...
Diablo Immortal’s patched in its latest update as season four begins tomorrow
If you're still playing Diablo Immortal, then first of all, I must congratulate you on managing to navigate August's many, many launches and events...
EG7 Q2 2022: Daybreak’s Jason Epstein is now chairman of the board
Remember a year ago when the Enad Global 7 board ousted CEO and co-founder Robin Flodin and replaced him - temporarily and in an...
Diablo Immortal’s mini-update adds events and a repeatable game mode for a limited time
There's a new self-described mini-update being applied to Diablo Immortal, but for all intents and purposes, it appears to have a fair bit going...
Why I Play: Returning to Diablo III in 2022
I don't know if there's a marketing term for this phenomenon, but Diablo Immortal did an excellent job selling Diablo III.
Popular streamers all caught...
Blizzard concludes Diablo III season 27 testing, gives season 26 end date
Diablo III picked up quite a bit of momentum this year with the release of Diablo Immortal's totally un-bodacious monetization: Its gameplay aged better...
WoW Factor: Dragonflight, Wrath Classic, and trying to stop the bleeding
So if you somehow missed it, Activision-Blizzard posted its most recent earnings report this week. It was not good for the company as a...
Blizzard-NetEase financing dispute leads to canceled Warcraft mobile MMO ‘Neptune’
Blizzard has apparently canceled an in-development MMORPG. Bloomberg, which first broke the news, says the game was code-named Neptune and was a "massively multiplayer...
Diablo Immortal vows two-week release cadence starting with Battle Pass Season 3
Blizzard's controversial cross-platform MMO is set to deliver more content on a regular basis to its playerbase: Diablo Immortal's team announced that it will...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 383: New World strikes up the band
Justin and Bree discuss New World, Diablo Immortal, SWTOR, NCsoft Q1, and Guild Wars 3, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, and Glitch, plus a mailbag topic on better terms for MMOs.
Somebody paid-to-win so hard in Diablo Immortal that it wrapped around to pay-to-lose
The industry was generating so many "internet guy spends a fortune on Diablo Immortal" stories there for a while that we stopped even covering...
