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Blizzard has announced the 8 new Overwatch teams coming to next year's Overwatch League, with three new Chinese, two new US, two Canadian and a mainland Europe team. The Overwatch League's first season was a rousing success for the most part Despite it having its fair share of drama along the way, seemingly surpass all expectations[...]

Both the new stage and new hero were announced ahead of Gamescom as part of Blizzard's Gamescom lineup. The new hero, Meohisto, is nicknamed the Lord of Hatred, and looks more like a villain than anything else But Heroes of the Storm isn't too picky on hero classifications as it is a MOBA So any character[...]

Today, Blizzard issued a statement on its forums letting people know that loot boxes have been disabled for two games in Belgium Specifically for Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm Following the trend that Valve first started with CS:GO a few weeks ago, the company is following the local law after they had been considered gambling[...]

The fine folks at Blizzard have decided to add some horror into World of Warcraft's latest expansion, Battle for Azeroth, with a new animated short There are a lot of things at play in the new expansion and a lot of new factions and old names are coming back into the game One such name that[...]

One of the cool pieces of info we received this week with the partnership between Blizzard and Tespa is that the Hearthstone Collegiate Championship would return The series is set to kick off this fall with a good chunk of prize money on the line that any college kid could sorely use Here are the details below[...]

Activision Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth has become the series' highest-selling to date. There are a lot of things that shouldn't work for World of Warcraft in 2018 MMORPG is a much more obscure genre these days after once ruling the market, and likewise, subscription services for games are incredibly rare[...]

If you're looking for an excuse to play Overwatch and you still don't own the game, Blizzard is making it free again this weekend Starting today running through August 27th, you can download Overwatch on any platform its on and play the game totally free Here's a bit of the official pitch from Blizzard. Overwatch's full[...]

Those of you looking at doing esports as part of your college curriculum this fall may be getting a few new options from Blizzard and Tespa The two entities have partnered together to form a new program in the fall where colleges who participate in Tespa esports events will have a chance to compete in[...]

Blizzard has released a new animated short based on Overwatch's D.VA and her efforts to defend her city, Busan. Blizzard usually goes pretty big for Gamescom, bringing all sorts of news across their family of games While not as massive as BlizzCon's info dump, fans of the mega-developer can certainly expect some interesting things to drop[...]

Blizzard is also adding a brand-new Co-op commander to Star Craft II just in time for Gamescom Tychus Findlay is a notorious outlaw and iconic hero, and he should bring some interesting changes to your Star Craft gameplay Tychus commands a crew of outlaws each with distinct personalities and unique skillsets that you can exploit to meet[...]

As part of their plans for Gamescom this year, Blizzard has brought a new hero to the Nexus of Heroes of the Storm This time we get ranged assassin and Lord of Hatred, Mephisto, who is a highly aggressive mage Mephisto is capable of dealing incredible sustained damage by reducing the cooldowns of his abilities any[...]

As we get closer to Gamescom 2018, we are now seeing the final plans of major studios for the event, including the latest from Blizzard Below is some information that was released on Gamescom's official app and reposted in several forums, detailing what the company plans to do on Wednesday, August 22nd While details are[...]

Blizzard's Pete Stilwell has said that while there are no announcements, a port of Overwatch on the Nintendo Switch would probably be possible. Yesterday it was announced that Blizzard would be bringing Diablo 3 to the Nintendo Switch, delighting many fans It will be the first Blizzard game on the console, which does seemingly open up the[...]

Nintendo and Blizzard have come together to formally announce that Diablo III Eternal Collection will be coming to the Nintendo Switch We have the full game description along with the official trailer and announcement video for you where the two companies decided to get a little cheeky with the people in charge The first Blizzard game[...]

When the word came down that the two new expansions in the Overwatch League were going to be another China team and Atlanta, we kind of assumed Canada was out for another year.

We've put a video together to catch you up with what's going on in World of Warcraft's latest expansion, Battle for Azeroth. World of Warcraft's seventh

And on the other side was Leftovers, who took a spill into the lower brackets halfway through and fought back against three other fallen teams to make it into the Grand Finals. credit//Blizzard Entertainment Match 1 Because of the way the tournament is designed, TD already comes in with a bye victory in a best of seven series — so[...]

We're in the home stretch of Heroes of the Storm: HGC Western Clash 2018, being broadcast live from the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles Before we can get to the grand finals, we need to take care of all that double-elimination insanity Here are the results from today's Finals rounds for both the upper and lower[...]

Here are the results from the this morning's clashes which took place at the Blizzard Arena. credit//Blizzard Entertainment Match 1: Team Dignitas vs Method The first match didn't even feel like a challenge from our perspective as Dignitas came in and cleaned up in short order Method did their best to try to try and fend them off but[...]

Blizzard has launched the 2018 Summer Games event for Overwatch today, which includes all your favorites from the past and some new flavors Like all events in Overwatch, all the previous year's event skins will be available to snag one more, Lúcioball will make a return to the game, and new outfits will be thrown into[...]

According to Blizzard, the studio has a couple of Diablo projects in the works at the moment The announcement was made on Twitter today, which invited fans to watch a video on all the new updates coming to the franchise, including a new project as well as new content for the current edition of Diablo III. Stay awhile[...]

We have the full description from Blizzard here, but as we speak, you can go into the game and grab new sets of cards to add to your hand and attempt to take people down online. credit//Blizzard No project is deemed too difficult (or too dangerous) for Dr Boom and his colorful team of scientists, engineers, and[...]

Blizzard has announced that Overwatch's Summer Games event will begin later this week, bringing new skins, emotes and a new map to LucioBall. The summer is in its latter half now, although you'd be forgiven for not thinking it The sun seems to be blaring down on just about everyone right now, especially those of us[...]

From servers being unreliable to Blizzard admitting that some specs aren't where they need to be (hello, fellow Shadow Priests), the lead up to WoW's seventh expansion has been a little rocky The mechanical and technical are not what we are here to talk about today though. None of the aforementioned problems had been enough to[...]

Blizzard has announced that Atlanta and Guangzhou will be joining the ranks next year for the Overwatch League Season 2. The Overwatch League came to a close recently, with London Spitfire taking the crown as the first ever champions of the esports competition All in all, it was a rousing success, with the league's absurd ambition[...]

But now, Blizzard has made it official The official Twitter account for the game sent out a brand new message and short video letting players know it was coming back on August 9th and running until the 30th But not only that, they seem to be teasing something new on the way as Lucio Ball[...]

The Magpie is a scavenger ship in the Starcraft universe. They are going into Dominion space to salvage a Protoss ship. Is it a good read?

It's been confirmed by Blizzard that the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth expansion will receive its first raid on September 4, 2018. There is a lot going on in World of Warcraft right now as the game ramps itself up to the impending release of Battle for Azeroth, its seventh expansion Beta testing and quests[...]

Overwatch's latest hero Wrecking Ball has finally swung his way onto the live servers for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. credit//Blizzard H̶a̶m̶m̶o̶n̶d̶ Wrecking Ball has been rolling around in the Overwatch landscape for a little while now The hamster is a genuinely unique character both in idea and execution[...]

In a pretty big surprise out of San Diego Comic-Con, legendary comic book writer Marv Wolfman will write a Diablo comic book illustrated by Piotr Kowalski.