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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Diablo Immortal’s 2025 roadmap promises Writhing Wilds next week and a new class this summer
NetEase might be pulling back in other corners of the global market, but it's apparently full-speed ahead on its Blizzard Diablo Immortal collaboration, as...
The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon
Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...
Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs
As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...
Not So Massively: Comparing the grinds of World of Warcraft and The First Descendant
Lately most of my gaming time has gone into two games: World of Warcraft and The First Descendant. They're both very grindy games, but...
Vague Patch Notes: Learning to hate the MMORPGs you love
I had to teach myself how to hate Star Trek Online. It didn't come naturally to me.
If you've read the stuff that I've written...
World of Warcraft teases its housing decoration tools, including 3-axis rotation and dyes
When Blizzard last talked about World of Warcraft's housing, it was a vague overview of the studio's philosophies that left a lot of players...
World of Warcraft previews Update 11.1.5 and arrests Brann’s tanking spec for being too much fun
World of Warcraft's Update 11.1 hasn't lost its new Goblin car smell yet, but Blizzard's already testing the next patch right now.
In a preview...
Perfect Ten: The strangest weapons you wind up using in MMORPGs
Human beings have been using things as weapons for about as long as human beings have had hands and needed to hit stuff. That's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 509: Lord of the Transfers
Justin and Bree discuss the LOTRO transfer mess, the return of APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth, Throne and Liberty's Wilds of Talandre, Guild Wars 2's Repentance, Elder Scrolls Online's Fallen Banners, and Fractured's new owners, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Diablo 3, and Farm Together 2, plus a mailbag topic on gating story beats with raiding.
Blizzard says BlizzCon will return again at last… in 2026
If you had your hopes up for a 2025 BlizzCon, well, don't. But you can get excited for next year already.
"Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced...
Diablo IV begins public testing of new boss powers and event, promises a sterner challenge in Season 8
While the next major content update for Diablo IV might not have a particularly sexy name, patch 2.2.0 is bringing on some things for...
The MOP Up: Diablo IV ups its treasure goblin game
Diablo IV doesn't have a treasure goblin any longer. It has treasure goblins, plural, as Blizzard introduced several new variants to these popular loot-spawning...
One Shots: Clean up on aisle everything
If you came here hoping to find beauty and wonder encapsulated in a single picture, look away, for Minimalistway is bringing you nothing but...
World of Warcraft releases Undermine(d)’s end-of-raid cinematic, applies a hotfix for several dungeons
Have you been enjoying World of Warcraft's Undermine(d) update enough that you've already plowed through its recently added raid? Then you've likely already seen...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMO corpse runs look like in 2025?
A couple of years ago - yeah, I save weird things in my "ideas bin" folder - MMO designer Damion Schubert tweeted about a...
Perfect Ten: Ranking real-world holidays in MMOs from worst to best
There are really only two categories of MMO festivities: the ones made up for the game itself and the ones "inspired" by real-world holidays....
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO starter experiences that fear new players
Last week, I talked a bit about power creep. But buried in there was something that you could easily miss as a guideline for...
WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers move into phase three later this month
The 20th anniversary servers for WoW Classic continue to barrel forward through the now-quite-familiar phases of vanilla content, with two of these stages already...
WoW Factor: Undermine(d) highlights World of Warcraft’s chaotic silly side
World of Warcraft Update 11.1: Undermine(d) is finally here, and it's certainly got the community buzzing. I kind of suspected this would be the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 508: Stars Reach fires up crowdfunding
Justin and Bree discuss Stars Reach's Kickstarter, LOTRO's U43 and server transfers, Jake Song departing ArcheAge Chronicles, Dauntless' sunset, and Monster Hunter Wilds' debut, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Undermined, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on the Elder Scrolls Online difficulty situation.