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Overwatch Announces the Return of Winter Wonderland Event
Blizzard has officially announced the next Overwatch Winter Wonderland event is on the way next week, making it the third year in a row for the holidays Word came down on their Twitter account today letting us know it would take place from December 11th until January 2nd A good three weeks of getting as[...]
Sylvanas and Stitches Reworked in Latest Heroes of the Storm Patch
The latest update to Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm brings reworks to heroes Sylvanas the Banshee Queen and Stitches the Terror of Darkshire The Sylvanas rework is designed to make her a more formidable opponent in team fights while also making her more rewarding for skilled players The Stitches rework will allow him to make better[...]
Review: Jinx Overwatch Winter Gear
The people at Jinx just keep on rolling out the goods for the Overwatch brand when it comes to clothing and accessories, and we got a new set of winter goodies to review.
Blizzard Post to Diablo Audience Says Many Projects Coming Next Year
This morning, a moderator in Blizzard's forums addressed some complaints about the Diablo series with a promising but quick post about the series At page 180 in a post called "A Quick Word From Blizzard", which goes back to November 7th addressing all the hatred for Diablo Immortal, one of the community managers named Nevalistis posted this[...]
Here's Every Card Coming with Hearthstone: Rastakhan's Rumble
credit//Blizzard Rastakhan's Rumble is the latest expansion coming to Blizzard's CCG Hearthstone The various cards coming with the expansion were revealed over the course of a week in small batches, but today Blizzard has revealed the complete 152 card lineup now that Lead Final Designer Dean Ayala and Brian Kibler revealed the last group of cards. And before you[...]
Diablo III
According to the latest rumors, Diablo IV is currently in the works under the code name "Fenris." The rumors have sprung up thanks to Kotaku's lengthy report on the history and future of the Diablo series at Blizzard Amid all the information about cancelled Diablo projects, Kotaku divulged information on Blizzard's current project, Fenris[...]
Blizzard Are Working on a Pokémon GO Version of World of Warcraft
Now that people have vented their frustrations at Blizzard about Diablo Immortal, we're curious how they would react to a World of Warcraft mobile game According to the lengthy Kotaku article making the rounds this week, a small mention was made about the company working on a version fo WoW that would play like Pokémon GO. The[...]
Diablo Immortal Cinematic Trailer
Blizzard may end up getting more blowback from their Diablo fans this week after a new article reveals more projects that didn't make the cut Kotaku posted a lengthy article today discussing the history of the series, and in it, we got a couple juicy tidbits Including the fact that the company canceled a Diablo[...]
THANKS-GIVEAWAY: PC Copies of Overwatch Legendary Edition
This Thanksgiving weekend, Blizzard is giving you a chance to play Overwatch, and with them, we're giving you a chance to own it! The awesome folks at Blizzard have offered us 25 game codes to give away! But not just any codes, these are Legendary Edition codes that include the full game as well as[...]
Overwatch Enters Another Free Weekend to Show Off Ashe
This weekend, now that Ashe has been added to the game, Blizzard has decided to launch another free Overwatch weekend The event kicked in at 11am PDT, and will run until Monday morning, give you a quick 72 hours to play the game and check out all of the new additions as well as the latest[...]
Overwatch League's Next Expansion Team Revealed: Hangzhou Spark
Best we can tell from doing some research about the city, neither the name or the colors have anything to do with the hometown either. credit//Blizzard The uniforms aren't looking that great, either As you can see here, it kinda takes the wind out of Reaper's sails decked out in pink and light blue[...]
2018 Hearthstone All-Star Invitational Returns to Taiwan in December
This week, Blizzard officially announced that the 2018 Hearthstone All-Star Invitational will be going back to Taipei, Taiwan next month The event will run from December 28th to 30th at the Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, featuring 16 of the top Hearthstone players with from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and others invited from around the world to take part[...]
Blizzard Reveals the Latest Hero Changes and More in Latest Patch
Blizzard released a brand new set of patch notes for the latest Overwatch update, most of which focuses on some character changes for better and worse While Mercy and Reaper got some slight increases, Roadhog received a couple of nerfs in his Chain Hook Meanwhile, Symmetra is still broken as hell after they changed everything about[...]
The Next Overwatch Update Will Require a Full Reinstall
So to fix a number of issues, slim the game down, and add more content, the company are going to make you reinstall it entirely. credit//Blizzard The next major patch will have some pretty fundamental changes to the game client The number of back-end changes we're putting in is substantial enough that we can't just patch over[...]
Overwatch League Team Chengdu Hunters Revealed
Blizzard has announced the latest Overwatch League team joining the competition in the form of the Chengdu Hunters. The Overwatch League is flying of late The game won esport of the year last night at the Esports Awards alongside several big team additions The league's season 2 is looking promising with big hope that the competition[...]
Blizzard Issues a Statement on Racially Insensitive Cosplay
Today, Blizzard has finally addressed a racially insensitive event that took place on one of their official Overwatch streams this week. Kim "Binbon" Jin Young was one of several presenters who took part in a bit of cosplay on the stream, only his choice wasn't the best as he dressed up in blackface to look like[...]
Diablo III
Kotaku is reporting that through their own sources, Blizzard had planned to do an announcement of a second Diablo title, specifically a PC/console game that would essentially be Diablo 4 The original plan was to announce Diablo Immortal and then, just as they were about to switch to the next announcement, a video would air[...]
Hearthstone Celebrates 100 Million Players With Special Event
Blizzard has announced that Hearthstone has hit a milestone of having 100 million players, and they'd like to celebrate with you The company loaded a new video and an event today, letting people know that between November 7th-11th, you can snag six free packs from the current Boomsday Project expansion as a thank you for[...]
Diablo Immortal Cinematic Trailer
Speaking at BlizzCon, Blizzard Co-Founder Allen Adham stated that he expected there to be a backlash to Diablo Immortal's reveal (Although, not quite to this degree.) Diablo Immortal has had a rough start to life The game closed the BlizzCon Keynote presentation and since then all hell's (pun intended) broken loose From angry hashtags, to even boos at the[...]
Diablo Immortal Cinematic Trailer
The trailer has been getting dislikes at a near-record pace every since it was loaded up on Thursday to YouTube, and social media has practically been on fire with people screaming hate at Blizzard developers over the project However, this entire saga took a new weird turn yesterday evening as Reddit users noticed that the dislike[...]
Not So Shocking: South Korea Wins Third Overwatch World Cup
After an intense two days worth of matches among some of the best teams in the world comprised of players who work well together, the cup's final match came down to China and South Korea, with the latter rolling in and dominating their finals opponents with a 4-0 win. credit//Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment For those of us[...]
30 AMAZING Cosplay Photos from BlizzCon by DTJAAAAM
Blizzard's annual BlizzCon is happening right now at the Anaheim Convention Center, and the cosplay is ON POINT. Here's a gallery of 30 incredible cosplay photos from our friend photographer DTJAAAAM, aka David Ngo: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ BlizzCon continues[...]
Blizzard Releases Details About Warcraft III Reforged at BlizzCon
Enjoy some of the details and trailers below as we wait for the game to be released sometime in 2019. credit//Blizzard Relive the events of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne Command mysterious night elves, insidious undead, savage orcs, and noble humans as alliances shift and cultures clash in ruthless conflict. 62 missions across Kalimdor,[...]
Blizzard Teases World of Warcraft's "Tides of Vengeance" with New Cinematic
As part of the Battle For Azeroth expansion, Blizzard teased a new event on the way for World of Warcraft in a new cinematic trailer The trailer called "Lost Honor" shows Varok Saurfang being kept prisoner after the initial battles when he is confronted by King Anduin Wrynn who asks why Saurfang did not kill him[...]
Blizzard Announces Diablo Immortal for Mobile at BlizzCon
However, considering the success games like Fortnite have had on mobile devices, this was probably a wise move for the company to snag mobile players into the Blizzard net Enjoy the cinematic trailer and gameplay video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSmAwpVHsAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Diablo Immortal Cinematic Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSmAwpVHsA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab2-WW1skOMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is[...]
Destiny 2: Warmind
From now until November 18th, Blizzard and Bungie are making the primary version of Destiny 2 free to download and play That is quite the deal for a game still getting updates on a dedicated server as Blizzard has Those who were watching the ceremony got a gift sent to them to download the game[...]