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The Overwatch team made it sound like nothing awesome was going to happen at this year's BlizzCon, and we should have known better.

During BlizzCon today, the company introduced a brand new hero to Heroes of the Storm, featuring a new dead magic user called Orphea. 

But it's nice to know that it will be included free for those who wish play it. credit//Blizzard During BlizzCon today, it was announced that those players who currently have access to World of Warcraft with active accounts will be able to play World of Warcraft Classic when the new game is released onto Battle.net in[...]

We suspect they'll be Blizzard exclusives on the Overwatch store sometime soon with a date announced at BlizzCon, followed by retail sometime just before the holidays Unless we're all being played and they won't be released until 2019. #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[...]

Blizzard made a new post about Diablo III on the Nintendo Switch today letting players know they'll be doing a bundle giveaway But they're not going to make it so easy as they'll be holding a scavenger treasure hunt for you to find objects both in the real world and online, and after putting the[...]

One of the most popular making it's way around is this little clip from Reddit, where you can see the player shoot through walls like it's another day at the office. Found an aimbotter on PC :( from r/Blackops4 We're primarily interested in this because we know for a fact that Blizzard, who currently runs the Black[...]

In this edition of the Funko Round-Up: Kingdom Hearts 3 product, Summoners War, Aquaman, and Overwatch exclusives! Check it out!

credit//Blizzard Entertainment Last week, Blizzard teased a few balance changes that would be coming to Hearthstone in a future patch, and the Hearthstone team has taken to their blog today to give the full details on the upcoming changes As far as major balance patches go, the update affects only three cards, but they will have some interesting[...]

When we started this tournament, no one figured we would be seeing two North American players in the finals, but here we are with one of the more unpredictable endings as we see bloodyface from the United States facing off against lnguagehackr from Canada. credit//Blizzard Entertainment HCT Finals: bloodyface vs. lnguagehackr As you would expect for the finals, the first match didn't go the[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, for the second day of battles to get to the Fall title Today we're looking at the top four as they battle it out for the rights to go onto the finals and decide the championship. credit//Blizzard Entertainment Semifinals Match: bloodyface vs[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, for the second day of battles to get to the Fall title Today we're looking at the top eight as we make our way through the quarterfinals to decide who will be in the final four. credit//Blizzard Entertainment Quarterfinals Match: bloodyface vs[...]

A couple days ago we talked about how Blizzard may be looking into doing cross-play for Diablo III now that the game is coming to the Nintendo Switch Turns out, the person int he article misspoke about something that Blizzard has no intention of working on Several outlets reached out to Blizzard to get a[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, whittling down the top 16 to crown a new champion of the season We're here for the first of two days open to the public to watch the matches as we cover them live here in the arena Here are the[...]

We're back at the Blizzard Arena this month for the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship, whittling down the top 16 to crown a new champion of the season We're here for the first of two days open to the public to watch the matches as we cover them live here in the arena Here are the[...]

A Blizzard representative has said that it is incredibly likely that Diablo III will see cross-console play sometime in the future. Diablo is currently the name on everyone's lips With BlizzCon around the corner, many are expecting to see if not a whole new game, substantial new content from the franchise Rumours have been swirling for[...]

Activision Blizzard and LEGO have revealed the first LEGO Overwatch set, which will feature everyone's favorite battlebot, Bastion The exclusive, limited edition LEGO Overwatch Omnic Bastion model is available starting today on the Blizzard Gear Store for an MSRP of $25 USD The set will also be available for purchase on-site at BlizzCon 2018 which[...]

Blizzard has officially kicked off the third Overwatch Halloween event, and they've thrown in some awesome content to keep you occupied. Junkenstein's Revenge has been added back into the arcade with two modes: the Classive version and Junkenstein's Revenge: Endless Night, which is basically a gauntlet match You can choose from ten heroes this time around with[...]

Blizzard revealed two more Overwatch skins this week for the Halloween event taking place on October 9th, one for Pharah and one for Widowmaker These look absolutely amazing, as the Widowmaker skin looks like a bit of an homage to Spider-Man, while still keeping her in widow-like gear with a deep shade of purple that[...]

Blizzard has revealed a look at Doomfist's new Legendary skin for the upcoming Overwatch event, Halloween Terror, next week. Overwatch has been around long enough now that there is no shortage of great skins in the game After all the events over the years, there is quite a library of things to dress up our favourite characters in[...]

Today, Blizzard threw up some pretty shocking news as it abruptly announced out of the blue that J Allen Brack would be replacing Mike Morhaime as company president Now former president Mike Morhaime took to the company's website to pen a proper goodbye letter and let players know of the change We have part of the letter for[...]

Considering how Blizzard likes to operate and how special this convention is to them, this is a rumor we think might absolutely end up being true Unless, you know, they decide to pull the 'ol switcharoo on us and reveal you're getting some new version of the previous games just to mess with you[...]

It was only a matter of time before we would see the return of Overwatch Halloween Terror event this month, and Blizzard revealed it will happen next week Along with the usual assortment of previous year's costumes and events in the game, you'll be getting a new set to collect as you'll shoot your way through[...]

The StarCraft universe is going to get an expansion from Dark Horse Comics this year as they will debut StarCraft: Soldiers at New York Comic Con this year.

However, Variety's report only acknowledges the news as a rumor, as neither Netflix nor Activision Blizzard have confirmed the series. From Variety: It looks like Netflix could be adding an animated "Diablo" series to its original programming lineup. Boom! Studios founder Andrew "Andy" Cosby tweeted on Wednesday that he's in "final talks" to write and show-run the upcoming series from Activision and Netflix[...]

This morning, Blizzard released a ton of details about new updates coming to Hearthstone, including new classic cards and a Halloween event on the way You can check out the press release we have for you below, including some of the new classic cards. credit//Blizzard New Player Experience Improvements We'd like to ease new players into Hearthstone a little[...]

A short but prolific portion of today's Nintendo Direct featured a series of announcements about third party games coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Because it would be really weird after all this time for Blizzard and Nintendo not to collaborate on a special packaging and commemorate the occasion. Ever since Diablo III: Eternal Collection was announced for the Nintendo Switch, we've been dying to know when the game would come out This morning, Nintendo gave us an answer on[...]

As is customary, a new Overwatch skin is coming as part of the BlizzCon Virtual ticket, this time Sombra getting a Diablo-inspired Demon Hunter skin. Some of my favorite Overwatch skins are those that mix the worlds of other Blizzard properties into the game of heroes Doomfist's Blackhand and Torbjorn's Magnus are excellent, with plenty of[...]

Blizzard revealed a brand new control map for Overwatch fans today by introducing us to their first Korean map in Busan The map was technically revealed back at Gamescom but didn't receive much sizzle from media as there was barely anything to show at the time Now the map is available for play in the primary[...]

We were given a choice of a couple pre-built characters so we could make our way through a particular dungeon area with some sort of ease but still have a challenge, which as I recall was down several levels so we weren't sitting on an easy walk-through. credit//Blizzard I really had no complaints about Diablo III: Eternal Collection on[...]