starcraft

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

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...

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...

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...

This entire column came about because our team was discussing World of Warcraft at work and I observed something kind of odd: The Dracthyr...

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

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

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....

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,...

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

If you're a fan of live or developing Blizzard titles like Diablo IV, World of Warcraft, or StarCraft II, you were also perhaps a...

So another year comes, and the last one's gone, and we dig deep just to carry on. Musical allusions notwithstanding, I thought it might...

If you like Gran Saga but want something a bit less cartoony, you're going to want to feast your eyes on the second MMO...

Earlier this month, we learned that Blizzard was effectively putting StarCraft II into maintenance mode. Considering what a massive fan of StarCraft II I...