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After playing three rounds of matches over 10 hours and 14 different games, the London Spitfire emerge as the champions for Stage One of the Overwatch League, beating the top-seeded New York Excelsior in the finals. 

Discord) Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the Overwatch League scheduled matches of the day from loading AI: Fixed a bug that prevented bots from voting on cards at the end of the match on Hybrid and Control maps Competitive Play Fixed a bug that prevented capture progress UI on Assault and Hybrid maps from displaying the correct team[...]

Blizzard has announced that starting today, coming alongside the Year of the Dog event the game is putting on, players will be able to switch skins at will at the start of a match in Overwatch. While Overwatch players like myself will say they continue to play the game to get better, their lying[...]

Just 48 hours before the next Lunar event kicks off in Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan took to YouTube to update fans about the next additions to the game, which will include a brand new map and capture the flag options.

When the Overwatch League first kicked up, one of the biggest criticisms of the league was its lack of female players. Specifically, people were concerned about the lack of the well-known Zarya player Kim "Geguri" Se-yeon.

Blizzard has gone live with Hearthstone update 10.2 today which brings a few balance changes to the game in addition to some Wild Events in celebration of the Year of the Mammoth Wild Events will run from February 19th to March 11th, including Wild Arena and two tavern brawls: Venture into the Wild and The Wild[...]

Blizzard has revealed the release window of World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion, Battle for Azeroth. When Battle of Azeroth was announced at BlizzCon last year, it really grabbed my attention Doing away with some big new earth-ending threat, and instead having a focus brought back to the core of the original concept, Alliance vs Horde[...]

The long awaited 'Mercy nerf' patch of Overwatch has now gone live, bringing with it 4K on Xbox One X. credit//Blizzard Mercy has been a bit of a problem since her massive rework a few months back She is the most popular hero in the game, the most played according to Blizzard, but she was also seen[...]

  Today, the Hearthstone team at Blizzard announced that an update coming next month would include balance changes to several cards Once these card changes are live with Update 10.2, players will be able to disenchant the changed cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks You can check out the upcoming balance changes[...]

Welcome back to Overwatch League Spotlight, a little section where we highlight the best matches of Overwatch League just so you can watch the good stuff.

Well, according to the latest Developer Update video below, you'll need to start watching what you say on social media and video-related websites.  According to Jeff Kaplan, Blizzard is now using social media to actively track down users who exhibit toxic behavior We're not talking about your standard "Mercy is broken" grief, we're talking outright vitriol[...]

Hearthstone fans need to brace themselves, for Blizzard has changes on the way for the Ranked Play system coming in March, some for the best and some that will surely anger many Below are the details released by the company today, but the big news is that players will now have their ranks reset four[...]

credit//Blizzard Because we just can't get enough loot box controversies, this one features Blizzard's hero shooter Overwatch which had a major cosmetics update this week consisting of over 100 items for all 26 heroes The problem is that all of the new items are pretty scarce, and some players are arguing that the loot box odds have changed.   The official[...]

You may have already known that World of Warcraft is doing away with the traditional raid class sets in the upcoming Battle For Azeroth expansion, but Blizzard has given us more details on the changes they'll be implementing to balance the classes and make them more unique, including new abilities and some changes to the talent system[...]

We're back with a new spotlight on another fantastic Overwatch League game featuring both home Los Angeles teams. It's been a little bit since I've

Blizzard World, alongside some pretty impressive new cosmetics, has hit Overwatch after months of waiting. credit//Blizzard Overwatch's newest maps has been a long time coming Announced at November's BlizzCon, the map has been available to PC players on the PTR for some time, but for everyone else, and those who want to play matches that count, it's been[...]

Blizzard's Korean Overwatch forums released a statement this week informing fans that they have helped track down and turn over to police several individuals selling illegal hacking software that messed with the game A year-long investigation nabbed 13 players for distributing programs like aimbots, another in a list of players that Blizzard and the Overwatch[...]

The first year of the Overwatch League has its first controversy. As we reported two days ago, the Dallas Fuel deactivated Felix “xQc” Lengyel after he went online and made what has now been confirmed by multiple sources as homophobic remarks toward an openly gay player.

But while all of the players are doing their best to make the league sizzle for newcomers and established eyes, Blizzard and the league itself are forging new deals that look to keep the league around longer than we may expect Yesterday, the league announced a brand new partnership with Toyota as one of their[...]

Overwatch is about to get a bunch of new skins and to celebrate, Blizzard will be showing off a new skin every day until it comes out. credit//Blizzard One of the complaints about Overwatch skins is that all the new ones often come as part of events This means not only are they only available for a limited[...]

Overwatch League saw huge numbers in its first week, with Activision claiming it reached 10 million viewers. There were a lot of questions around

It went away for a bit, but then Blizzard came out with a trailer for their latest Hearthstone expansion, which aped fantasy shows of the 70s It was cute. Well, Blizzard are back at it again, and this one might take the cake for 'most impressive video for smaller product' in a while The style Blizzard[...]

Blizzard has announced its Blizzard World Overwatch map is on its way to the live version of the game next week. credit//Blizzard It's been a bit of a long road for Blizzard World The map was revealed all the way back in November at BlizzCon The map, which brings together a ton of Blizzard franchise into one[...]

You can see all that money on screen, so I for one am going to just be enjoying all the money being thrown at the screen. Updated 1/12/18 Blizzard responded to this story with the following statement: There's been some confusion about the scope and parameters of the Twitch deal, so I wanted to share a note to[...]

Check out one of the most enthralling and high-quality matches in Overwatch League so far, right here. The Overwatch League kicked off two days ago now,

credit// Blizzard The Overwatch League might just be the thing to really put eSports on the map of notable sporting events However, the league is lacking something obvious Not a single member of any of the Overwatch League teams is female If you don't believe me, you can check out the official list of players on[...]

The Overwatch League flew past expectations on its opening night, racking up a massive 415k viewers at its peak viewing times on Twitch. The league kicked

Those of you who have been patiently waiting to find out when Overwatch will finally release Blizzard World and give you a fresh map to play on, Jeff Kaplan just stepped in and gave you an answer The question was brought up in their forums this week, to which Kaplan responded with the text below. credit//Blizzard Blizzard World[...]

After already making fans angry this week over the whole Mercy thing, Blizzard and the Overwatch team decided to do something that's earned them just as much criticism Today, a new update was added to the game that introduced a new set of skins related to the Overwatch League that will be kicking off tomorrow[...]

Overwatch League has a new mobile app, that will allow viewers to keep up with Blizzard's ambitious esports competition. There are a lot of eyes on the Overwatch League which is starting tomorrow It probably is one of the wildest, most ambitious esports ventures out there, creating an international league composed of teams who reportedly needed[...]