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Overwatch's Mercy and Junkrat have both seen nerfs on the Public Test Realms, with the one for everyone's favourite guardian angel being particularly massive. credit//Blizzard Mercy has been a topic of hot debate in the Overwatch community for a while Since her radical rework a few months ago, she has become an almost essential pick, especially in higher levels[...]

Blizzard has released the spotlight for Heroes of the Storm's newest addition, Blaze. In the extensive video, we get to learn about the character's abilities and perhaps unsurprisingly, he is all about bringing the fire He's described as an initiation tank and it seems he has some really heavy hitting abilities He can chain oil barrels[...]

Don't hold me to it, but the fact Blizzard is already openly talking about them is a good sign. Overwatch Director Jeff Kaplan has said in a developer update that Hero 27 is going to be a very important one to the game. Speaking in the video, the director makes mention of the next hero in[...]

Earlier today, PlayOverwatch's channel started suddenly streaming, and to everyone's elation and equal confusion, it features Jeff Kaplan just sitting in front of a fire not doing much.

In case you were hoping for something cute from Overwatch during the holiday season, you're in luck! Blizzard has released a brand new webcomic for the series, featuring Mei and Winston in a bit of a winter fight called "Yeti Hunt" It's short and cute and doesn't really have any backstory going into it; it's[...]

Blizzard has announced that Firebat Blaze from StarCraft is making the jump to the mash-up game, Heroes of the Storm. Blaze will take off in the game in January, but past that, details are a little light. What we do know from the description of the trailer is that he is a: a dual-incinerator cannon wielding Warrior who excels[...]

An open position for a designer with experience in vehicles has been spotted on Blizzard's recruitment site This role is for the publisher's unannounced first-person shooter game. As spotted by ResetEra (via VG247), the role of  Senior Software Engineer, Gameplay, Vehicles makes reference to… well, vehicles The listing says: Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented gameplay[...]

Game director Jeff Kaplan has said that movement changes are coming to Overwatch which will affect every hero in the game. Speaking on the forums, Kaplan

Grab some popcorn! credit//Blizzard CosmicGhost, You have over 220 reports for harassment Looking at your chat logs, these reports are verified Here are some examples: now im dont give a [expletive] they can [expletive] my [expletive]too you deranged addicted nerd and this community is ignorant and insane im the reason for anything good good morning you sad sad dumb generation LONG WALK FOR A PILE[...]

ESL UK run three biannual tournaments under the Premiership banner: CS:GO; League of Legends and Hearthstone with Rainbow Six Siege to be added in 2018. Hearthstone is Blizzard's free-to-play online collectible card game which first launched in 2014 The game received the Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion back in August. "The ESL Premiership is designed to promote the[...]

Basically, it's Evolve, which is not where I thought Blizzard would be pulling from. You can check out the event's launch trailer here to get a nice look at everything you can now mess around with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzMyugk8xMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Overwatch Seasonal Event | Winter Wonderland 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzMyugk8xM) Winter Wonderland will run from today to[...]

Overwatch has had a toxicity problem since day one. I suppose that is nothing surprising for an online game, but it has been around for long enough

A little bit of moving news in your gaming news this weekend, as the latest trailer for Ready Player One shows Tracer from Overwatch as one of the playable

Hearthstone has just launched its Kobolds and Catacombs expansion, and Blizzard has just put out a pretty wild trailer to get people excited. The pretend-'80s/'90s film or ad thing is pretty played out at this point, but even that being the case, this is pretty charming Based on the look of old fantasy films and TV shows, it's[...]

Overwatch League has a lot of people pretty excited. While not without its detractors, I think most people in the eSports scene are at least intrigued to

Thankfully, Blizzard recently restocked their supply and I was able to snag one for review from them! The jacket itself is made from a thicker cotton so that it has some resistance but is also designed to be lightweight, so this is more of your spring and fall type outerwear, as well as anything for a[...]

Blizzard has just released a patch on the PTR, and Principle Designer Geoff Goodman took the time to outline them on the Overwatch Forums Ub the post he let on what had been immediately fixed but also added that even since putting out the patch on PTR, more have been figured out. Wall slamming should be much[...]

Blizzard released some new information on Hearthstone's latest expansion, and they're looking to show it off in style "Kobolds & Catacombs" will be released on December 7th in North America and December 8th in Europe To help present this new expansion, Geek & Sundry's show Critical Role will be holding a livestream on Twitch, this Thursday[...]

Image courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment The Overwatch League is set to start its preseason on December 6th It will be the first look we get at the ambitious competition, which kicks off properly in early 2018 However, the league is only the tip of the iceberg for the game's competitive plans. In a post, Blizzard has outlined the structure[...]

credit//Blizzard Recently, there was word circulating that Overwatch's Moira had already seen a nerf just a few days after going online In the latest version of the PTR, some noted that her right click attack made it much harder to target characters Interestingly though, this change didn't come up in the patch notes, leaving many to[...]

Overwatch League is starting its pre-season on December 6th, and there is a lot of expectation on the Seoul Dynasty. South Korea and eSports just go

When they remember that they're not actually a Tenno, they will thank you. Credit// Blizzard Entertainment If they're super into Overwatch, you can always get them some prime loot from Blizzard Seriously, 50 loot boxes will set you back $39.99 USD Or you can buy them Overwatch merch If they've somehow made it to the holidays of 2017 and[...]

The Blizzard World map, which was revealed at this year's BlizzCon, has now hit the PTR. While not available in the live version of the game, if you are on PC you can play the map on the game's test servers Blizzard World is set in a fictional Disneyland-like theme park based upon other Blizzard properties[...]

A few days ago, Blizzard officially added Moira to the Overwatch roster, making her one of the quickest additions from PTR to the main game But she wasn't the only update thrown into the mix as Ana, Lúcio, Mercy, and Winston all got some changes in the latest update You can see the character notes[...]

It's been teased for a minute from Blizzard, but finally, StarCraft II is officially a free-to-play title on Blizzard's own platform All you need to access the game is an account (which is already free to create), and enough space to download the game Below are some of the features that the developers have thrown[...]

A bit of an oddity worth taking note on in the Overwatch community as Blizzard has stepped up and taken down many of what it describes are "negative players" from the Asia servers, specifically for trolling and cheating In the translated version of this post on their forums a week ago, "After detailed and rigorous verification[...]

Judging by the forums alone, most fans are already high on the character and were hoping it wouldn't be a long delay like in the cases of Orisa and Doomfist when they were teased. credit//Blizzard Looking over some of her costume choices and other goodies you can get for the character, there's a bit of a David[...]

Over the weekend at Blizzcon, Jeff Kaplan and art director Arnold Tsang helped present some of the scrapped heroes from Overwatch, including one we're super

But in the end, the most predictable outcome we could have told you came true, as South Korea's team dominated the tournament to win the cup for the second year in a row. credit//Blizzard South Korea dominated the final round, winning 4-1 against Canada, who held their own up until the very end They have nothing to[...]

Before the finals of the Overwatch World Cup, which we'll get to later tonight, Blizzard revealed the special skins for all of the Overwatch League teams And much like sports jerseys, we're sure fans from specific cities and countries will want to get their hands on these for their own purposes Whether or not Blizzard[...]