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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The MOP Up: Fae Farm launches a free demo
Was Fae Farm too rich for you blood? Now you can check it out for free on Nintendo Switch or PC thanks to a...
Diablo IV is bringing the ability to craft uber unique items on February 13
When is a Diablo IV item more unique than unique? When it's uber unique, of course! This tier of item has been a farming...
Overwatch 2 previews Season 9 updates to competitive play and characters
Overwatch 2 has already painted a broad picture of the changes to competitive play due for the shooter's Season 9, but now director Aaron...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPGs and the PC gaming market
I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...
Microsoft insists Activision-Blizzard was planning on mass layoffs before the merger
As we've been covering, earlier this week the FTC filed a complaint to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging that Microsoft misrepresented itself...
WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery moves into its second phase with Gnomeregan raid
It's a little strange to think that WoW Classic's Season of Discovery server is only just now moving into its second phase, but here...
Former Overwatch 2 lead vfx artist calls out Blizzard for deceptive promotion and pay behavior
Workers and former workers at the various substudios at Activision-Blizzard have been calling it out as an unpleasant workplace for a while now since...
Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel
A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
World of Warcraft elaborates on The War Within’s hero talents system
The War Within expansion for World of Warcraft is bringing, among other things, the hero talents system, an "evergreen form of character progression for...
Overwatch 2’s Season 9 calls to Champions next week
The ninth season of Overwatch 2 is ticking down to launch next week on February 13th with an array of "eldritch horrors" waiting on...
FTC files a complaint against Microsoft following Activision Blizzard layoffs
When Microsoft outlined its plans for what would happen following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the things that the company stated was...
Working As Intended: City of Heroes macros and popmenus for noobs
In my first braindump on City of Heroes for this column, I tried to ease superhero fans into the world of modding the 20-year-old...
Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two
Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...
Not So Massively: Stormgate isn’t delivering a revolution (yet)
Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...
Scars of Honor is a throwback to the ‘golden age’ of MMOs with a $200K Kickstarter
Another day, another MMO that seeks to "bring back the golden age of the genre." But will the emerging Scars of Honor capture the...
World of Warcraft remains coy about March’s ‘secret’ Dragonflight patch
In what promises to be a diverging year for World of Warcraft, Blizzard already is stirring things up for a complacent playerbase. Curiosity's been...
World of Warcraft begins both Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day events for 2024
World of Warcraft players have not one but two holiday events on deck this week thanks to a quirk of the calendar.
First, the lunar...
World of Warcraft’s February Trading Post is all about having a lovely time of love
It's February, and as far as World of Warcraft's Trading Post is concerned, that means it's time for an entire month of love. This...
Casually Classic: When will WoW Classic stop adding expansions?
This spring, the era of Wrath Classic will officially come to an end when the Cataclysm Classic pre-patch hits ahead of the summer launch....
Vague Patch Notes: Why we drift away from MMORPGs we still love
Why did I stop playing Star Trek Online? Was it because there was some change made to the game that made it no longer...
