mike morhaime
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had a dream about MMORPGs?
Today's Daily Grind is inspired by two bits from social media. First, MOP's Justin recently joked on the podcast that describing MMO boss battles is...
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...
Former Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven will reveal two more titles in the coming months
When you've been the Big Cheese at a studio like Blizzard, you're going to get some serious attention to whatever follow-up project you pursue....
Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven will publish co-op rogue-lite Lynked Banner of the Spark
Most of the news coming out of former Blizzard dev Mike Morhaime's company Dreamhaven has been about its ambitions and an open call for...
Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven game studios open playtest sign-ups for their upcoming games
Back in 2020 we got wind of Mike Morhaime's return to the games industry after leaving Blizzard thanks to the formation of Dreamhaven, a...
Lightforge Games halts social RPG production, downsizes to a skeleton crew
Over the past few years we've been reporting on Lightforge Games, a development studio that entered our general genre radar for snapping up former...
Upcoming MMO from indie Gardens studio pulls in $31.3M from Tencent, Dreamhaven, Krafton, and more
Another week, another new studio popping up with a pseudo MMO and a laundry list of the biggest investors in the industry desperately dumping...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that ghosted us after talking a big game
There's nothing worse as a fan of games to buy into all of the hype and previews of a promising-looking project only to see...
The MOP Up: Chrono Odyssey preps gameplay video, plans global release
Expect to start hearing more buzz about South Korean next-gen MMO Chrono Odyssey now that it's ramping up hype and info. Its studio told...
Ex-Blizzard execs Jen Oneal, J Allen Brack, and John Donham form Magic Soup Games
Now here's an interesting collab. Yes, it's yet another "ex-Blizzard people form a new studio and investors give them stacks of money" studio, but...
Meet Pax Dei, a well-funded open-world social sandbox built to ‘true MMO scale’
Back in 2021, we caught wind of a new Microsoft-backed MMO called Pax Dei from studio Mainframe Industries, which had been busy raising huge...
WoW Factor: Chris Metzen’s uphill road with World of Warcraft
So, last week there was a bit of unusual timing. I had finished my column about World of Warcraft's Trading Post, and on the...
Perfect Ten: My memories from the 2004 World of Warcraft launch
Back in November of 2004, I was a wide-eyed 28-year-old bachelor who had just met his future wife and was generally leery about MMOs...
Lightforge Games raises $15 million in funding for development of a social RPG project
So what is Lightforge Games actually building right now? The answer is that we don't actually know, but we do know that the company has...
The Game Archaeologist: The Blizzard Real ID fiasco of 2010
As we come off a year when Blizzard Entertainment's seedy underbelly of scandals and coverups was exposed, I thought it might be worth risking...
Mainframe Industries’ cross-platform cloud-powered MMO raises over $22M in series B funding
Let's open this up with a bit of a history lesson: Back in October 2019, some former vets of CCP Games, Remedy, and Next...
World of Warcraft continues to clean up its act with surgical replacements to characters and quests
We have been watching with some degree of fascination the Great World of Warcraft Purge of '21 that's come in the wake of Blizzard's...
New exposé reveals still more layers of sexual harassment and discrimination at Blizzard
Bloomberg has yet another piece up on the ongoing Activision-Blizzard sexual harassment and discrimination scandal, this one interviewing "more than 50 current and former...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2021: Activision revenues are up, Blizzard MAUs are down amid sexism scandal
Back in May, we got quite a bit of unexpected attention here at MassivelyOP as the headline for our coverage of Activision-Blizzard's Q1 2021...
Blizzard’s sexism scandal continues, 2500 devs sign letter condemning Acti-Blizz response
It's now been a week since California filed a brutal discrimination and harassment lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard following a two-year investigation. Last week and over...
