Major gaming studio, responsible for World of Warcraft and the Warcraft franchise, Diablo III and the Diablo franchise, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch.
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World of Warcraft shares new video about this week’s Mists of Pandaria Remix
It's pretty clear that World of Warcraft is banking hard on the idea that everyone wants to run back through Mists of Pandaria in...
Diablo IV’s latest vid breaks down itemization changes, crafting, and The Pit
Last time, Diablo IV put out an itemization explainer video for those who only have a minute. Now, a follow-up video is going 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...
WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft makes you cheer for removing features
Yesterday, MOP's Justin wrote a column about The Elder Scrolls Online that detailed its key virtues. It's a good column, and one of the...
WoW Classic hosts a ‘welcome back weekend’ with free play through May 13 for Cataclysm’s pre-patch
These days, it feels as if World of Warcraft is trying to make you choose whether you want to live with WoW Classic or...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect...
Massively Overthinking: Why and how we mod our MMORPGs
Last week, the MOP team was sitting around in our virtual offices, talking about modding Elder Scrolls Online, all because some of our readers...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with forever adding classes to MMOs
The second expansion for Final Fantasy XI, Chains of Promathia, launched to extremely mixed reception, and there was one overwhelming reason for that lack of...
Microsoft continues shrinking ZeniMax and Xbox with voluntary severance deals
Sure, Microsoft shuttered a bunch of studios and added more layoffs to its pile earlier this week, but it can't possibly get worse, right?...
Perfect Ten: 10 favorite features that pairs of popular MMOs share
Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....
Diablo Immortal unleashes the Tempest class May 23, brings back Tower War PvP in latest patch
Bracing cold winds. Flurries of steel. Crashing waves. No, it's not a word painting for my newest superhero OC (please don't steal); it's Diablo...
World of Warcraft’s latest patch, Dark Heart, is now live
It's time to go all-in on sisters and sinning! Wait, that sounds way worse than it was supposed to. It's not our fault; the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 468: Give ’em Helldivers 2
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR's update 7.5, Daybreak's headcount, the Helldivers 2 fiasco, and freebies from Elder Scrolls Online and DDO, with adventures in SWG Legends and LOTRO, plus mailbag topics on why we haven't had a new blockbuster MMORPG in a while and whether MMOs will return to an era of experimentation.
Microsoft shutters multiple studios, abandons Redfall, bolsters Elder Scrolls Online staffing
Microsoft continues laying waste to the gaming industry today with the closure of four Bethesda studios.
We can reassure MMO players right away that Elder...
Diablo IV hypes Loot Reborn itemization overhaul with a new explainer vid
We're now a week away from Diablo IV's Loot Reborn season and update, and whether or not you think it makes any sense at...
WoW Classic annoys roleplayers with Season of Discovery server merges
How do you do a merge without technically calling it a merge? Well, you close down a server for new players and give everyone...
Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s radically casual new endgame
Today we're going to be dusting off Second Wind, a column where we revisit MMOs of the past. It's an older column, sir, but...
Global Chat: How much is Fallout 76 benefiting from Amazon’s Fallout series?
MMO blog Tales of the Aggronaut looked at the recent phenomenon of Amazon's popular Fallout series and any correlating increase in the games' populations,...
WoW Factor: There’s probably never going to be a World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’
As I always do when discussing World of Warcraft (and anything else, really), I am putting my cards on the table here: I am...
Diablo IV’s upcoming loot patch will ‘fundamentally change how you engage with items’
Promising "the biggest update to Diablo IV since its launch," Blizzard said that Season 4: Loot Reborn will deliver many "evergreen" improvements to core...
