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credit//Blizzard Activision held their quarterly earnings call yesterday, and announced that Blizzard has no major releases planned for the 2019 year While the company will continue to support existing live games like Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, and World of Warcraft, the lack of any major releases is a major blow. After all, it has been quite some time since[...]

The news finally came down this afternoon after the worst kept secret at Activision Blizzard came out last week, as nearly 800 employees will be laid off The layoffs appear to be targeted on a few specific non-game-development departments, which includes publishing and esports The specific jobs and how they will affect operations in those areas[...]

It may be dire times for those currently working for Activision Blizzard as a new report suggests the company is looking at several layoffs According to a report from Bloomberg, the company is planning to announce hundreds of jobs will be cut and layoffs to come after recent poor performances and the company stock dipping[...]

Blizzard and Twitch have come together again to offer another All-Acess Pass for the Overwatch League's 2019 season, with a couple of changes The first being that the pass is now just a one-time $15 purchase which will run until December 31st. You'll get 200 League tokens to use on your Battle.net account to buy a[...]

As part of the detail they put into the new PTR map, Blizzard devs added a working piano It's not what you would call a fully functional one with 88 keys, but it gets the job done with a short range Like you would find on a kid's toy But the map has captivated many a[...]

A few different people caught onto the fact that Blizzard, seemingly out of the blue, decided to permanently discount Overwatch this week If you take a trip to their shop, you'll see that the company slashed the price of the game by 50%, making the regular version of Overwatch a mere $20 Meanwhile, the Legendary[...]

Blizzard has officially kicked off the latest event in Overwatch today, as the 2019 Lunar event celebrates the Year of the Pig for the next few weeks As per previous events, you'll be able to get new sprays, animations, emots, and costumes Some of the new ones you can snag are Lü Bu Reaper, Guan Yu[...]

As we get closer to the Overwatch 2019 Lunar event happening this week, the devs have decided to release images of some of the skins as the buildup.

Blizzard has released patch 2.6.4 this week for Diablo III, and along with some specific updates, it brings the Season of Grandeur to Sanctuary The update brings in a brand new season theme for Season 16, as players will be introduced to the Ring of Royal Grandeur. Seasonal players won't need to grind to snag the benefits of[...]

This week, Blizzard has released new details of their plans for World of Warcraft's 2019 Arena World Championship (AWC) and the rebranded Mythic Dungeon International (MDI). First off, the Arena has a near-complete schedule listed for 2019, the only things that seem to be missing are dates and locations for the championship rounds The regionals seem to[...]

We nearly forgot about the Chinese New Year with everything going on, but Blizzard didn't, as they announced the next Overwatch event on the way The company made the brief announcement on their Twitter account yesterday, showing off Soldier 76 trying to work a drum in his own special way. Squeal with joy! Overwatch Lunar New Year returns[...]

A press release was sent out over the weekend from Pomerantz LLP declaring that they are investigating Activision Blizzard for fraud After the split with Bungie and the loss of the Destiny IP, the firm released this information claiming they would start an investigation into the matter on behalf of investors This does not confirm that[...]

In the middle of all the chaos currently happening with Activision and Blizzard, we now know the last day Mike Morhaime will be there. Blizzard's co-founder and former president announced his departure back in October, but up until now we had no clue when he would officially leave the company Now we know after the company[...]

Blizzard has loaded a new unique challenge inside Overwatch this week as players can now compete in Ana's Bastet Challenge Basically, it's a brand new skin and other features that you can achieve by completing the challenge from now until January 21st After three wins you get her player icon, after six you get a special pose,[...]

credit//Blizzard In a new short story expanding the massive Overwatch universe, Blizzard has quietly revealed the existence of a second LGBTQ+ character in the game In the story "Bastet," Soldier 76 meets up with former sniper Ana after the explosion of the Overwatch headquarters in Switzerland Ana catches Jack (Soldier 76) looking at an image of himself[...]

credit//Blizzard Overwatch Contender team Second Wind added a new player to their roster just before the new year, but the player in question quickly received negative attention from Overwatch esports fans A new player hit the top 10 ranks on the Overwatch NA server and was revealed to be a player known as "Ellie"[...]

Blizzard just put a couple of new things into the latest patch for the original Diablo with The Darkening of Tristram and the Diablo anniversary event Yes, it's from a couple years ago, so you're technically getting retro content added to the game, but it's still fun As to The Darkening of Tristram, we have some of[...]

Imperius, the Archangel of Valor and leader of the Angiris Council, is now live in the Public Test Realm for Heroes of the Storm.

The top 16 players in the world will be decided through a number of factors that include championship wins, tournaments played, victories, etc, to determine who will be competing for a $1 million prize pool. credit//Blizzard More details will be released at a later date, we're guessing when the HCT Winter Championship happens sometime in the next[...]

Blizzard appears to be taking a step toward controlling their own chat system on Twitch by testing out a new system of accountability According to DotEsports, the company is testing out a system where they will require anyone wishing to use their chat to link their Twitch account to their Battle.net account The move will[...]

Meaning you can get anything normally unlockable as well as any of the Winter Wonderland items. credit//Blizzard However, keep in mind there are no guarantees of what you get Some people get lucky and snag multiple skins, which is awesome And then there's people like us, who got mostly spraypaints and in-game currency without a single skin[...]

One of the strangest stories to come out of the week is the abrupt loss of over 100 support employees at the Blizzard offices in Ireland The news was picked up by Eurogamer, who reported that over 100 employees in support positions ranging from top-tier management down to back-office workers have voluntarily accepted money deals[...]

Blizzard's Overwatch team has been having a ball with the Holiday Season this year, and nothing shows that more than the latest video posted to the game's YouTube channel Called "CookieWatch," the video uses stop motion to present the incredibly comedic battle between Reaper and Tracer over a plate of cookies left out for Santa. The[...]

Blizzard has released an adorable new stop-motion animation celebrating the holidays featuring both Reaper and Tracer again. credit//Blizzard Not so long ago, we got an endearing Overwatch short Except, unlike the impressive CGI ones that delve into the characters of the game,  it created a new fun, Toy Story-like universe where Tracer and Reaper statues came to[...]

Overnight, Blizzard threw in a few new changes to Hearthstone as a way to balance out some of the cards currently available for play The changes are actually pretty minimal and there isn't anything that's going to severely cripple anyone's deck, unless they heavily relied on having these cards as part of their building process[...]

The fine folks at Blizzard have created another Overwatch stop motion video, with Reaper and Tracer going at it again This time the two fight each other over some cookies left for Santa on Christmas Eve, but get a bit of a surprise in the middle of their fight Here's hoping this isn't the only[...]

Blizzard made an announcement today to all of their fans of Heroes of the Storm that the company will be cutting back production on the game The word came down in a letter to the community from Blizzard's president J Allen Brack and chief development officer Ray Gresko, who announced that development resources currently being[...]

A little bit of troubling news during the holiday event in Overwatch as Blizzard had to pull one of the maps after people got stuck Everyone was super thrilled to see a holiday version of Blizzard World be added as the Claifornia-esq positioned theme park got a shade of holiday cheer Sadly, only half the players[...]

credit//Blizzard Blizzard has announced the Overwatch League's 2019 schedule which brings in eight new expansion teams, some away games, and a $5 million USD prize pool The away games will be hosted by Dallas Fuel, Atlanta Reign, and Los Angeles Valiant in their home cities, which allows the OWL to shake things up a bit The[...]

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