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Not So Massively: Revisiting Heroes of the Storm in 2023

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Social media algorithms are a dangerous thing. A few weeks back, Reddit began recommending me the sub for Heroes of the Storm. Although I...

Massively Overthinking: What’s Blizzard’s next move?

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Gamers and pundits talked a big talk about Blizzard's prospects over the last few years. Don't worry about the weak revenues and plunging MAUs,...

Not So Massively: Godsworn is Warcraft III meets Age of Mythology

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It's a testament to how far the RTS genre has fallen that Steam's recent Tacticon festival of strategy games featured almost no RTS titles,...

‘Real-time battler’ Spellcraft enters alpha today – here’s how to get in

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As promised, One More Game officially kicks off the alpha test for Spellcraft on Steam today. Spellcraft was originally unveiled a year ago, though...

One More Game’s multiplayer tactical game Spellcraft opens up its Steam alpha April 6

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Back in 2020, we covered the formation of a new fully remote company, One More Game, with a bunch of relevant names from MMOs...

Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special

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MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission: "Wanna know...
We all become done.

WoW Factor: Chris Metzen’s uphill road with World of Warcraft

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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...

WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and more to sunset in China following failed Blizzard-Netease licensing deal

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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...
Looking closer.

Wow Factor: Welcome the desert of the real Blizzard

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This entire column came about because our team was discussing World of Warcraft at work and I observed something kind of odd: The Dracthyr...
Local Panda Recalls When She Was Special.

WoW Factor: Was the faction split ever good for World of Warcraft?

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Before I had played World of Warcraft and back in the time when I allowed myself to speculate more freely on what games would...
Opposition.

WoW Factor: How much does World of Warcraft matter to Blizzard?

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My initial plan this week was to write about whether or not World of Warcraft was successfully creating an echo chamber in which everyone...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects

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Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....
HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIIIIIIIIIIDE

Blizzard shifts Heroes of the Storm into maintenance mode, gives lizards to all

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Quick: What's the one live service Blizzard game that nobody ever talks about, thinks about, or apparently plays? The correct answer is, of course,...

Prime Gaming teams up with Blizzard to offer freebies for Overwatch, Hearthstone, WoW, and StarCraft

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Amazon Prime members are likely already very familiar with all of the free stuff they can claim for a wide variety of games, but...

Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?

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This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...

Not So Massively: Age of Empires IV is a thoughtful love letter to the past

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Folks who grew up gamers probably all have a few games or franchises that just defined our childhoods. For me, one of those franchises...

Massively Overthinking: Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?

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Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...

Former ArenaNet co-founder Jeff Strain calls for game dev unionization

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Jeff Strain, a former employee of Blizzard, former co-founder of ArenaNet, and current founder of Undead Labs, is joining the cavalcade of voices condemning...

Nexon CEO talks games industry innovation, venture capital, and crypto

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Innovation used to be a major buzzword in the online gaming industry, to the point that its saturation made it pretty tired. The term's...
That'll cost you money.

The Soapbox: Reconsidering social media as an MMORPG

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At GDC 2011, Raph Koster gave a talk in which he said, "Games are fundamentally social media and always have been." You can watch...

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