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Meanwhile, unless someone manages to hack Blizzard's system, we don't know anything about how our system is set up A quick look at their own forums and Reddit feeds will show you people believe the North American system is probably unfair. So we're posing the question to you, our readers who play Overwatch Do you believe[...]

It shouldn't come as a shock after the 30 million players annoucnement, but Activision Blizzard's First-Quarter earnings call, the company revealed that Overwatch has become the fastest growing franchise at Blizzard, and helped the company accumulate over one billion dollars in revenue since launch. credit//Blizzard You can check out the full results of the data here, but essentially the[...]

Her campaign used the incredibly popular Blizzard MOBA Overwatch in an ad, basically saying that her skills in political office would equal some awesome kills in Overwatch, and that all of this reflects positively on her ability to run a Presidency free of corruption. From what we were able to gather thanks to a quick Google search, Sim is running on[...]

But instead, he turned it over to Blizzard after finding it in an eBay box of his own marked "box of Blizzard stuff." Originally he posted about the disc on Reddit, to which people wanted him to post all its secrets But then Blizzard hit him up and asked to have it back since it had[...]

The latest patch for Overwatch went into effect yesterday, and while we have a complete list of changes for you below from Blizzard, the two main highlights are that Soldier 76 got a slight nerf while Reinhardt got nerfed hard on an ability Specifically reducing his range on Earthshatter, which I think I've personally seen[...]

Blizzard just seems to be racking up the achievements this month First Overwatch passes 30 million players, and now Hearthstone has surpassed 70 million players. But that isn't the only good news as Hearthstone also broke the records for "the most simultaneous players" in a game at a single time Part of that achievement is due in[...]

credit//Blizzard Blizzard may have brought the Necromancer back to Diablo III, but many players keep running into a simple login error That error, code 300016, prevents users from logging in to the Necromancer beta test It's a closed beta so a number of players are finding the error, however we don't have an accurate number of just[...]

The Skill Rankings have been totaled and the Overwatch team has revealed the 32 countries (listed below) who will be participating in the Overwatch World

To earn that many players within a year of releasing the game is one hell of an accomplishment, so congrats to them for making it happen! We can only hope that Blizzard decides to celebrate with some free boxes for everyone Preferably ones that aren't completely filled with duplicates like the entire Uprising event has been[...]

The latest edition to Blizzard MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, is the opportunistic mobile assassin from Overwatch, Genji A cybernetic ninja, Genji is the younger brother of Hanzo, who refused to join his families criminal empire… which lead to him being assaulted and left for dead He was pieced back together by Overwatch and given[...]

When we got the latest map for Overwatch called 'Oasis," we thought it was a godsend to break up the monotony from maps that everyone figured out and

And as a result, you may be noticing that more Season 4 matches across the board have been seeing fewer healers and more DPS-focused heroes. credit//Blizzard Blizzard, not one to shy away from getting into it on their own forums, addressed the matter yesterday when Overwatch's principal designer Scott Mercer took the matter on himself and explained that[...]

It's an interesting time of year for Blizzard to be throwing their own Christmas party, but that's what they're doing today. In preparation for the upcoming remastered version of StarCraft: Brood War, you can get both PC and Mac versions of the original game and the expansion, completely free from the company right now[...]

Overwatch's Genji and the Hanamura map are making the jump to Blizzard's MOBA Heroes of the Storm, at least in beta. Genji is an Assassin class in Heroes and has a larger skill set than in Overwatch His increased mobility, basic shuriken spread attack, Deflect and Swift Strike abilities and Dragonblade ultimate are all present in some form[...]

Last week, Blizzard announced the beta testing for Necromancers would be coming for Diablo III Now that people are starting to get into the character during the beta, we're finding out a lot more about it's abilities and advantages We've posted Blizzard's own setup that they're currently running, but be aware, the character is still[...]

Only one person truly has fun in those games: the troll who decided to go smurfing. credit//Blizzard The issue has been brought up to Blizzard so many times on their forums that game director Jeff Kaplan decided to finally address it And while he was more than happy to say they were going after people who do[...]

Jeff Kaplan, Vice President of Blizzard Entertainment and Game Director for Overwatch, can knock this off the bucket list In the same way Jimmy Fallon used to make Brian Williams rap, a Youtube user named Dinoflask has made Kaplan sing a parody of Smash Mouth's song All-Star that talks about being Platinum ranked in Overwatch[...]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Finally, after seeing dozens of leaks and the comic, we finally have something tangible and official from Blizzard themselves with the latest trailers and artwork from Overwatch's April event, Uprising! Along with over 100 new pieces of loot collectibles that you'll be scrambling to get, you'll be able to[...]

Last week Blizzard revealed that they would be hosting a new Overwatch event with a pretty vague tweet giving us a few hints as to the event, but mostly just a date April 11th was the date in the tweet, but it looks like the trailer for the event hit early on the Playstation France Youtube[...]

He moved on over to Blizzard when they announced that they'd be creating StarCraft II He mostly ended up using his experience as a player in the original to help balance and design StarCraft II's gameplay. He announced this weekend on Blizzard's battle.net forums that he would be leaving SC2 to work on another project under Blizzard's vast umbrella[...]

Yet you talk to someone like Jeff Kaplan of Blizzard Entertainment, and diversity has been the driving force behind their 25 million player strong game Overwatch Kaplan was speaking to Kotaku shortly after the Marvel story broke and was asked about the diverse characters in the game and fan reaction. "I think the way that we've[...]

On Saturday, April 8 at 1 p.m. PT, live from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Cox Pavilion arena, the four best collegiate Heroes of the Storm teams in

Looking for a job? From everything I've seen, Blizzard is a great place to work… and their hiring They need a new game designer for their Hearthstone team The video below gives you a brief idea of just what the designer does… and you can check out the Blizzard job site to apply. https://youtu.be/dDbyFjxyx_wVideo can't be[...]

Ever! Blizzard has been going after Bossland for years after they made dozens of hacks for World Of Warcraft, but the tipping point that pissed them off was seeing a special hack deal for Overwatch Now programs like Honor Buddy and the defunct Watchover Tyrant have put the cheater group in major trouble with the court system. credit//Blizzard After[...]

Blizzard put out a shocking tweet last night about their next update to everyone's favorite MOBA, Overwatch. Now that the clickbaiting is finished, I'm going to leave you with the tweet to just let it all sink in. Initiating archive declassification…Mission files unlock: April 11 RETWEET to confirm pic.twitter.com/GUvthyskCm — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 3, 2017 Yep, this is exactly what I[...]

Hearthstone has been a nice success story from Blizzard as the online card game exceeded expectations from the company and has only continued to grow Especially after the game came out on smartphones where it was able to reach a whole new market of people who wanted to play on the go Now, people are[...]

Big news day for Blizzards MOBA Heroes of the Storm The company has started talking about a 2.0 update with two separate videos as well as a video introducing the next playable hero, Cassia from the Diablo universe The new update will change the progression system, introduce loot boxes, talk about changes to in-game currency[...]

Blizzard has released this new video showcasing the next Overwatch character to become a statue The popular assassin character took the mantra of Widowmaker after assassinating her own husband and realizing that, like spiders, she was never more alive than when killing That statue measures 13.5" (floor to head) with a base of 7.5" in[...]

Thanks Blizzard. The video below helps you prepare for the new patch You can find the new patch notes here. https://youtu.be/GUdtsoOtCsgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Legion Patch 7.2: Tomb of Sargeras—Survival Guide (https://youtu.be/GUdtsoOtCsg) Tomorrow, the new World of Warcraft 7.2 patch will be released It's called the Tomb of Sargeras and it will continue[...]

Blizzard has announced the formation of the Overwatch Pacific Championship, a professional eSports league based in Taipei for their ever-popular MOBA And now pro teams in the Pacific region can get in on the offical Overwatch action with a new league and championship Fantastic! The Overwatch Pacific Championship's first season will begin on the 8th of April (AEST/NZST) with eight[...]