Blizzard Entertainment Archives

For finer details, you can check the link above. Credit: Blizzard Entertainment Hearthstone: Battlegrounds Buddies (Jan 25): Every battle's better with a buddy! In this patch, we'll be introducing a new Battlegrounds Buddy System! A Battlegrounds Buddy is a special minion that's unique to each Hero, designed to synergize with that Hero's gameplan. New combat system: The "Buddy[...]

Major news this morning for Activision Blizzard as Microsoft has announced they will be acquiring the company shortly.

Blizzard Entertainment has released info this week about their upcoming plans for the 15th Anniversary of World of Warcraft Esports The main goal for 2022 is that they are looking to expand on what makes everything about this a community, while also offering more to play for That includes several planned changes, which we have[...]

Here's more info on the planned idea for the tour. Credit: ESL With a total of over $1.3M in prize money up for grabs across the whole tour, the newly-announced calendar marks the third year of ESL's partnership with Blizzard Entertainment, and will see closer collaboration with tournament organisers to support ESL's "Zero To Hero" player pathway[...]

Blizzard Entertainment dropped new details for the return of the Darkening Of Tristram event coming back to Diablo 3 The team revealed that the anniversary event would be making a return and it would be kicking off on January 3rd, 2022 The event is designed to throw you back in time to the earliest days[...]

The dev team at Blizzard Entertainment currently working on Diablo IV have released their latest quarterly update about the game The team posted this blog, which we have a snippet of below, in which they go over some of the major things they've been working on in an effort to keep everything transparent That includes[...]

Blizzard Entertainment held the Hearthstone 2021 Grandmasters World Championship event over the weekend, and today we have a new champ That champion is Japan's own Posesi, who went toe-to-toe in an online grand final with fellow Japanese player glory, winning in an epic 3-2 decision With this victory, Posesi will take the championship trophy, will[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed this morning the entire Hearthstone esports system is getting an overhaul as they head into 2022 The team dropped a ton of information, which we have for you down below, in which they detail many of the changes that will be implemented starting in January While a lot of the basics have[...]

Blizzard Entertainment has launched the Winter Wonderland 2021 event into Overwatch today, along with all the fun that comes with the event From now until January 6th, 2022, you'll be able to get in on the festivities that range from new skins and cosmetics all the way to new events There are five new Legendary[...]

Blizzard Entertainment released details today about the latest major patch coming to Diablo II: Resurrected, which includes balancing The team revealed info on the 2.24 Patch, which will be heading to the PTR servers first so they can let players mess around with it and make sure it works before loading it into the main[...]

Blizzard Entertainment held their Hearthstone Masters Tour Undercity over the weekend, with Wu "XiaoT" Jiwei coming out on top The latest round of completely online tournaments saw a ton of competitors from every region drop into the tournament looking for glory and some steady prize money, ultimately having 400 players from over 40 countries When[...]

Originally, Kotick denied he was aware of the claims, however, the Journal has obtained new documentation showing that he was, in fact, fully aware, and personally settled multiple harassment cases out of court. Blizzard Entertainment sign at the entrance to the video game developer and publisher headquarters – Irvine, California, USA – 2020, photo by Michael[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed the next expansion for Hearthstone and the Alliance and the Horde battle in Fractured In Alterac Valley the expansion will launch on December 7th, and with it will come 135 new cards inspired by heroes of the Horde and Alliance from World of Warcraft, as they fight on the legendary snowy battleground[...]

Blizzard Entertainment released new details about their upcoming Hearthstone Masters Tour Undercity event and how to watch it As you might suspect from the past year's worth of tournaments, this one yet again will be broadcast online only with players coming in from around the globe in their own homes due to the pandemic This[...]

Blizzard Entertainment released a new update into World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands today as we get a better look at Eternity's End Also known as the 9.2 Update, this pack will be the final major content update for Shadowlands as the team brings this epic story to a close and show off the awesome conclusion Which[...]

Blizzard Entertainment released a new update to World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands today, bringing about a few different changes to the game Some of the primary changes that have come in for this one are the Allied race unlocks as they have given out some new accessibility to the game without needing to run through specific[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed a brand new patch has been released into Hearthstone this week, adding in new content for Mercenaries The patch, which they're simply calling 21.6, will be launched into the game on November 2nd, and with it comes a few new additions to the game Specifically a bit of storyline where Edwin VanCleef[...]

Blizzard Entertainment announced their plans for the launch of the Season of Mastery in World Of Warcraft Classic happening next month Similar to the original Classic launch, you'll be able to log onto the servers ahead of when they're going live and created a new character starting on November 11th This will give you the[...]

Blizzard Entertainment has officially launched the closed beta for Diablo Immortal today as they test out the game's features Along with all of the regular game features, players will also have a chance to mess around with the new Necromancer class to see how they like it You can read more about it below and[...]

Blizzard Entertainment held the Hearthstone Masters Tour Stormwind this weekend and in the end, FuryHunter came out on top The fifth official Masters Tour stop of 2021 in the middle of the pandemic came to an end this afternoon and with it comes a new champion as Frederick "FuryHunter" Adam Møller ended up beating Jim[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed their plans for the second season of World Of Warcraft's The Great Push, which will kick off this December The latest installment of their esports competition, the Mythic Dungeon International, signups will be taking place until the end of November with the tournament eventually happening after several rounds of play from December[...]

Second, we have begun work to improve how we address complaints, including the restructuring of two teams, Ethics & Compliance and Employee Relations, to more efficiently and effectively handle the investigation of complaints. Credit: Blizzard Entertainment The memo goes on to cover several subjects including having an investigation team, transparency, and a number of other changes within[...]

Blizzard Entertainment has launched the latest seasonal event into Overwatch today as players can get in on Halloween Terror 2021 As you might suspect, a number of things are making their return for what is quite possibly the last time we see this event before Overwatch 2 is released Junkenstein's Revenge makes its comeback as[...]

We have the rundown of how each earned their spot from Blizzard themselves below, but we can say having followed the event that none of them are slouches and could take the title this year. Credit: Blizzard Entertainment In Americas, McBanterFace sneaked into the Hearthstone Playoffs in eighth place in his very first season of Grandmasters[...]

Blizzard Entertainment will be bringing Season 2 of Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 to a close this weekend with the last World Championship Like a lot of the events that have been played this year, this one will also be completely online as they will see who the best of the best is and who will be[...]

Blizzard Entertainment will be launching a new open beta in World Of Warcraft Classic as they prepare for a brand new addition The Season Of Mastery open beta will kick off on October 5th as all players will be able to test the upcoming gameplay and quality of life changes the team has added Some[...]

Blizzard Entertainment has released a brand new map into Overwatch as players can experience the free for all action in Malevento Taking a futuristic page out of Italy, this is a cliffside villa in a hilltop town by the waterside, which won't be as peaceful as it looks when you dive into it against other[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed their plans for the 2021 Hearthstone World Championship as it will take place online this year The company tried to put something together, but due to the travel constraints of multiple countries and the ride in the Delta variant of COVID-19, the pandemic put the kibosh on any plans they had to[...]

This settlement does not include the one filed by their own staff or puts off the federal investigation, so we'll see where those two things stand in the days to come. Credit: Blizzard Entertainment   Commenting on the agreement, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said: "There is no place anywhere at our company for discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind,[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed more details today for the World Of Warcraft Arena World Championship 2021 Grand Finals happening this weekend The competition will kick off on September 25th at 10am PT with everything broadcast live on YouTube, as we will see both the North American and European series come to a close in the Shadowlands[...]