Tag: MMO
If Amazon Games plays their cards right, they could see their upcoming Lord of the Rings MMORPG dethrone Blizzard’s aging giant, World of Warcraft. WoW is showing its age, not …
The nonsensical phrase body type has replaced gender and sex designation in many popular RPGs in the past few years. This is a top-down initiative that has been implemented to …
With the recent publication of Jason Schreir’s book Play Nice: The Rise and Fall of Blizzard, the topic of the Irvine studio’s demise is being hotly debated. I am reading …
A month ago, Blizzard Entertainment released the worst cinematic in Warcraft history on YouTube. It’s an unfocused, unintelligible hot mess. It features a female troll gyrating in a quasi-Haitian Hollywood …
The following is a commentary-free summary of John Hight’s The First 30 Years of ‘Warcraft’: The Making of a Game Universe presentation at GDC 2024. INVEN, a Korean gaming website, …
It has been a brutal year for the AAA video game industry as mass layoffs continue. In early 2024, Blizzard’s parent company Microsoft who recently purchased Activision-Blizzard wasted no time …
Ex-Blizzard developer Mark Kern AKA Grummz is in the gaming news again. Along with Kabrutus and others, Kern is co-leading a gamer revolt against the forces of political correctness that …
A video of Darkpaw’s PAX East 2024 panel just dropped and the studio just revealed the sobering reality that a new version of EverQuest is still in an internal ideation …
In December of 2023, the news broke that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard was finally settled and they will pay $18 million in compensation. Few industries …
In the domain of fantasy virtual worlds and MMORPGs, the profound alignment of game content with the cultural, mythological, and historical ethos of its intended audience is crucial for deepening …
Let the bells ring and the children sing! Ding dong the wicked lore man is gone! Steve Danuser is no longer working at Blizzard Entertainment. The man who presided over …
There is no doubt that the World of Warcraft Cataclysm expansion was the beginning of the downward spiral for the Blizzard MMORPG juggernaut. I’ve always believed that the main reason …
