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To vote, you'll need to login with your Blizzard Battle.net account, then build your Atlantic and Pacific rosters Each roster of six can have up to two players from each role: offense, support, tank, and flex. Voting for All-Star rosters ends on Sunday, June 17 The starting rosters will be announced the week of June 18[...]

Blizzard Entertainment has released a glimpse at some of the early pages of the World of Warcraft comic, alongside a pre-prepared Q&A with writer Matt Burns The comic, called The Speaker, is a 10-page short that explores the dwarven king Magni Bronzebeard's role in the events coming to WoW in the near future. Matt Burns is a Senior Writer[...]

credit//Blizzard According to the latest reports, Blizzard plans to add six more teams to their successful Overwatch esports League, with Germany being the target country for the next Overwatch League team Reports also indicate that South Asia and the Americas are also targets, but the priority for Blizzard's new venture seems to be Berlin. This is in[...]

Overwatch League is fresh and exciting at the moment, and all it took was one hero. Even though she is only sometimes picked, Brigitte hangs over the game like a spectre.

The Overwatch team is pulling out all the stops to show off their latest array of goodies for the game's second anniversary, which includes a brand-new infographic showing off all the stats up to now.

This morning, Blizzard officially launched the Overwatch Anniversary event, complete with a brand-new set of items to get in loot boxes, a brand-new deathmatch map to play on, and making good on a promise we thought might not be fully true. The event will automatically reward you with an anniversary box upon opening the game —[...]

They include things like McCree dressed up as Sherlock Holmes, the pirate outfit for Junkrat, and 8-Bit themed costume for Lucio, and a magician's outfit for Symmetra. credit//Blizzard Now unlike other websites, we're not going to post the photos, because we feel there's something to be cherished in the surprise of seeing it when it comes out[...]

As a fan, I had no idea there was a stop-motion class on the Blizzard Campus, nor did I realize they were making Blizzard-themed material in said class We remember the days of seeing these kinds of movies made all the time back in the '80s, and while the genre hasn't totally gone away, the[...]

We have the official trailer as well as a proper description of the level from Blizzard below, but this is going to be one of those close-quarters maps that will keep you indoors away from the snipers and brawling for hours to come. credit//Blizzard A group of archaeologists have begun an excavation and preservation project among the[...]

Blizzard has announced that Overwatch will be getting a free weekend come next week It will take place during the game's 2nd-anniversary event. Blizzard hasn't been afraid of opening the gates of Overwatch to everyone periodically in an attempt to attract new players to the game While you can pick up the game for relatively cheap[...]

We're a week away from Blizzard launching the new Overwatch event to celebrate the game's second anniversary, and as they approach the occasion, the team decided to drop a new Developer Update video with a few bits of news. The biggest item to take away is that Overwatch just reached a new goal of having 40[...]

credit// Blizzard Blizzard has announced a number of sweeping changes that will be coming to Hearthstone's Witchwood expansion once the HCT Playoffs are complete The changes are pretty much all nerfs, with many cards now costing quite a deal more mana, in order to make Witchwood gameplay a bit more even Two of the biggest changes target warlocks[...]

The Nexomania event is returning to Heroes of the Storm on May 22nd. This year, the event brings new skins for Lunara, Sonya, Diablo, Garrosh, E.T.C., and Kharazim, as well as new mounts, and a hero re-balance for Lunara and Diablo.

She will change the way the league is played and that is potentially exciting. If Hanzo's Changes Come Through, He Will See a Lot of Play credit//Blizzard Hanzo is a weird one right now The inclusion of his rework in this stage has been really unclear It began with the comments from players saying the recently reworked Hanzo[...]

After having the date leaked in Brazil over the weekend, Blizzard has come out of the gate swinging this morning with details about Overwatch's next anniversary event for 2018 Suffice to say, the developers are going all out and it's pretty much a given that we'll be seeing some videos about this content in the[...]

We all knew that an Anniversary event was bound to happen for Overwatch this year, we just didn't know any of the finer details to it yet because Blizzard likes to keep all of that stuff under tight lip as much as possible Well, sometimes, plans don't always go the way you expect them to[...]

A six-year-old hacking case finally comes to a close this week as a Romanian World of Warcraft player has been sentenced after being found guilty of attacking Blizzard's European servers with multiple DDoS attacks The U.S Department of Justice posted the notice this week after the sentencing was laid down Here's a quick snippet from the[...]

This week, Blizzard introduced a new pink skin for Overwatch's Mercy, with the proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The skin will cost you $15, but 100% of the proceeds will be going toward the fund And in case you're wondering, no, this isn't the average skin that you can just randomly get in a[...]

Last night, the Overwatch League's Boston Uprising announced that their coach, Dae-hee "Crusty" Park, would be departing the team. There wasn't much fanfare or explanation to the announcement, only a message left on the team's page.

We always thought that Blizzard probably had enough money to buy an island somewhere and finally build Blizzard World with a bunch of World of Warcraft, but we never suspected their fake money would be worth more than someone's real-world currency Turns out, we were wrong! A new report from Fortune shows that the gold[...]

In the Overwatch League, New York Excelsior has taken the Stage 3 play-offs against the Boston Uprising, giving them their second consecutive stage win as

Blizzard has reported in a conference call that the Overwatch League is doing very well, with a growing audience of millions and new teams coming in the next year. The Overwatch League was a big risk before it started early this year The plan Blizzard had put in motion was easily one of the most ambitious[...]

Here's the official Rialto description and debut video below. credit//Blizzard Rialto was home to Talon agent Antonio Bartalotti's sprawling estate and the backdrop to the infamous "Venice Incident," a turning point for Overwatch and Talon The Italian government has taken great steps to preserve Venice, and the results are striking Tourists visiting this picturesque town can sample[...]

Blizzard has announced all of the teams set to play in the Overwatch World Cup, bringing in 24 countries spread across four host countries. The Overwatch World Cup is going to be a fascinating thing this year With the context of the Overwatch League behind it, it will feel like a much bigger and more understandable[...]

Overwatch's next map, Rialto will be leaving the PTR tomorrow and making its way into the full game, although there will be a little bit of a wait until

Blizzard revealed a couple new options for races in the new races that will be coming along in the next World Of Warcraft expansion called Battle for Azeroth They've been revealed as Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag'har Orcs You can click this link to check out the complete stats and information behind each one, but[...]

Some of that speculation has been quelled and to a degree, has made some fans excited, as one of the team's developers Geoff Goodman jumped on the Blizzard forums to answer a question from a fan. credit//Blizzard We currently have moved her to Defense We tried a healer version which had her turrets healing instead of dealing[...]

A new job listing has suggested that Blizzard Entertainment's next game will be a PvP focused shooter. There have been rumblings about Blizzard's next unannounced project for a little while and fans have been puzzling over what to expect from the project since job listings started popping up Nothing official has been said about the project, but[...]

If you recall, all the way back in 2009, Blizzard announced that they'd be adding a custom map marketplace for StarCraft II, but then never actually got around to releasing such a thing Now, 9 years later, StarCraft II's arcade which already allows players to create and play custom maps, will allow players to buy premium fan-made[...]

In an interview, Blizzard has revealed that Overwatch's Symmetra is likely getting a rework and importantly, will be moved from a support class to a defensive one. credit//Blizzard Symmetra had the most complicated existence in Overwatch out of all the heroes She was the first character to receive a substantial rework, and her place in the standings is conflicting[...]