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If you've ever found yourself sitting in your favorite tavern in Azeroth, sipping a beer and feeling nostalgic for the early days of World of Warcraft, Blizzard announced World of Warcraf: Classic just for you Like many other MMOs from the early days, WoW is getting its own retro-mode Can't let Runescape and EverQuest have all the fun, after all. The[...]

At Blizzcon today, Blizzard announced a new expansion for their virtual TCG, Hearthstone which will bring 135 new cards to the game and a single player dungeon run mode, which should keep you decently busy. Venture into the dark, winding dungeons deep beneath Azeroth in search of ancient, legendary treasures in Kobolds & Catacombs, the upcoming expansion for Hearthstone due[...]

Blizzard announced a brand new expansion for the MMO today at BlizzCon The new expansion, called Battle for Azeroth, starts with the shattered trust between the Alliance and the Horde after the battle against the Legion And thus, we have a brand new war on our hands. As a new age of warfare begins, Azeroth's heroes must[...]

A little something from the Overwatch developers as they have created a new hybrid map that will probably spark the interest of many Blizzard fans The new map is called "Blizzard World", and it will be a hybrid between payload and assault The entire park features rides and attractions catered to Blizzard fans as there[...]

Blizzard just wrapped up their opening ceremony at BlizzCon and in the process, introduced a ton of material they'll be discussing this weekend The big announcement coming out of Overwatch was the addition of a brand new hero in Moira Blizzard sent out an extremely brief bio describing her as a "life-draining geneticist" who, as per[...]

Activision Blizzard is a massive conglomerate of game publishing so of course their third quarter results were pretty solid. Overwatch and Hearthstone continue to be fan-favorites and draw in money off their micro-transactions, and of course Destiny 2 launched on console in time to hit the report, which netted a record turnout for Activision Blizzard in terms of year-to-date[...]

As part of their BlizzCon opening ceremonies, the Overwatch crew presented a brand new animated short featuring Reinhardt. You might wanna grab the tissue

One of the crown jewels in Blizzard's crown is about to be shared with the entire kingdom as StarCraft II will become a free-to-play game on November 14th The news came down from Battle.net's official blog on the matter, detailing exactly what that means for players old and new Below are some of the finer[...]

Its almost become a meme unto itself in the Overwatch forums and Reddit, but yet again, Blizzard has decided to nerf Mercy and limit what she's able to do with her Resurrect ability The latest patch notes show that Mercy and Ana have been tweaked in the PTR servers, which we've given a full listing of[...]

Some awesome esports additions are coming to Overwatch, as noted by Jeff Kaplan in the latest Developer Update video we have for you below.

Mercy has been given a fix to her cooldown period where her counter doesn't reset after using Valkyrie or Resurrection, and Zenyatta got some new lines for his new Halloween costume! The complete patch notes are below. credit//Blizzard General Players can now set their social status to Online, Away, Busy, or Appear Offline (Note: appearing offline does not[...]

Next week, Hearthstone is getting its spook-times on with the Hallow's End event. The in-game event includes new card packs, a new hero, and arena runs.

Just before the big Overwatch Halloween event kicked off this year, several of the costumes were leaked onto Reddit for people to check out. You can see the

NRG eSports has announced the members who will be joining the San Francisco team in the Overwatch League this year with a seriously silly video.

A couple of images have been posted at this link revealing a $20 gift card for Xbox One and a package with the date "10/9/17" on the top, suggesting that the event will officially kick off on October 10th (with the assumption that items arrive the day before they happen). Blizzard hasn't mentioned much about the event[...]

Back at San Diego Comic-Con, news of a new Overwatch comic featuring Zarya was teased with the hint that it would put the Russian fighter in a tough

Blizzard has released a new audio drama for World of Warcraft, called A Thousand Years of War – the Story of Alleria & Turalyon The drama, from the story written by Robert Brooks, is presented in three parts and narrated by Stephen Pacey. You can also read it if you prefer, as they've provided a PDF link[...]

When Blizzard decides to add another of the characters to the Nexus, it's more than just a different skin for an already proven style of play It adds something unique to the game That continues with their latest-announced addition: Ana from Overwatch. Ana is a sniper and a support character It would only make sense to[...]

There has been tons of speculation as to who would be coming next, with the most obvious choice on the list being Hammond, the other gorilla who is unaccounted for at the Horizon Lunar Colony. Whether or not that is correct is pretty irrelevant at the moment as Blizzard has been able to keep a lot[...]

Along with a bunch of bug fixes, Overwatch received a new patch today that will finally add the feature that people have been demanding almost since launch

Now that system will affect people at the Gold, Silver, and Bronze levels as well. credit//Blizzard The short version of what this means for Overwatch players, in general, is that in order to stay on top, you need to be a top player and you can't just pose as one because you managed to score a Gold[...]

We've posted the complete list and the video below, but we're curious… For our Overwatch fans, what do you think of the new additions? credit//Blizzard   D.Va Micro Missiles (New Ability) D.Va fires a barrage of small rockets that detonate on impact, dealing damage in a limited radius around each explosion[...]

Today, Blizzard put out a brand new animated short revolving around one of the most beloved characters to play and someone that everyone else calls "the devil" in chat: Mei I personally adore Mei as a character because she doesn't fit the typical mold you'd see in a shooter, let alone a team game But[...]

Blizzard has released a new animated short for their Hearthstone game, and it feels like something Disney would've made A little girl walking through the snow is given a magic box by a mouse with a scarf…and ends up in a magical tavern where everyone is happy to see her The patrons then sing her[...]

Looks like Blizzard is going to have an awesome Gamescom as Overwatch revealed two different videos featuring Junkrat and Roadhog, along with a new escort map on the way called Junkertown In a PR release for both videos, Blizzard welcomed everyone to the apocalypse with this intro: "Former home to Junkrat and Roadhog, Junkertown is[...]

According to reports on Blizzard's own forums, the company has known about this issue since June and has yet to fix it, despite releasing a couple patches and the new character Doomfist during that time. There's no real strategy here for dealing with this as the map will continually reset until almost every player is kicked[...]

Blizzard is sympathetic Speed Demon is a charming asshole Genis-Vell is crazy and interesting I just love all of it. The villains, Baron Strucker, Purple Man, Atlantean terrorists, and, later, the freaking Grandmaster, are great Swordsman plays an interesting role later on Moonstone's return was dramatic and shocking. Tom Grummett's artwork is very much in the vain[...]

Blizzard has quite the showcase planned for Gamescon next week, including a lot of content for games like Overwatch that you probably would expect them to save for Blizzzcon Word has leaked that a new map will be revealed on Monday, August 21, just before Gamescon kicks off on the game's official YouTube page, and[...]

Warcraft III was released back in 2002, one of the last titles from Blizzard because they blew the doors open with World Of Warcraft and became a major MMORPG studio Since that time, Blizzard has periodically offered support to WC3, much like they have their other titles, and never let the fans of the series[...]

The price of the deal has not been disclosed, but Activision has reportedly been seeking $15–$20 million for the premiere franchises of the league. Activision announced some rather gaudy earnings in last week's 2017 Q2 report, and Overwatch was a large part of that equation: Blizzard had the biggest quarterly online player community in its history with[...]