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Blizzard is teasing their next Heroes of the Storm playable character and this one comes from Overwatch Lúcio, the DJ turned hero that uses sound weapons, joins the Nexus and will be available to play starting February 6th on the PTR (public test realm). https://youtu.be/iQ_1HIvclmQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Heroes of the Storm[...]

Taking to the Blizzard forums, principle designer Geoff Goodman revealed the buffs and tweaks the character is seeing to become more viable. Recon Mode – Lowered spread and increased magazine size, to help with general viability in this mode. This essentially would mean when Bastion is walking around, his gun would be better at shooting at distance[...]

A lot of Diablo players are geeked up for the new Necromancer class that's going to be added to the game in the near future, so Blizzard put together a Q&A with the Diablo community manager Brandy Camel, lead FX artist Julian Love and senior game designed Travis Day Now they kick the video off[...]

Overwatch has really been a phenomenon since it was released last year. It is one of the biggest new FPS multiplayer IPs in quite some time, and it

Some Overwatch fans took to the game's forums to point out Bastion's role in the game right now, and how he could use a buff and some changes. And as Blizzard have done so much since the game launched, they responded According to principal designer Geoff Goodman, the character currently has changes that are being experimented with[...]

The other day it was revealed that a new Overwatch event is coming next week, based on the Chinese new year. We saw skins for D.VA and Mei, but how about

Blizzard has released a spotlight on their newest playable character for Heroes of the Storm, Valeera Sanguinar The video briefly covers her bio and touches on the fact that she is neither Horde nor Alliance But the really interesting part of the video is when it gets into the actual game play There is a[...]

The Overwatch events thus far have been quite fun little dressings for the game. They don't change the title up all that much, but rather, give players a

You ever had a gaming friend talk about changes to an upcoming game you love like they had insider information. And they keep referring to the PTR but you

Blizzard MOBA game Heroes of the Storm has a lot of heroes… 62 total right now And they come from all of the different universes that Blizzard has created: World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo and Overwatch Sometimes it's a bit overwhelming to see all the character and to know which ones you should try to[...]

In it, he says he plays a lot of Overwatch, as well as Hearthstone, saying Blizzard do "great stuff". However, he did end up going in on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided of all games too, largely for story issues He said: I think story is really neglected in modern games That's the criticism of the latest Deus[...]

If the headline made no sense to you, then you're probably not a World of Warcraft player. The next big patch release is coming and it has a lot of

Heroes of the Storm is getting a new playable character, the Forest Troll, Zul'jin. The new character is rather unique in that he's an aggressive ranged

However, now the location, which takes place in a high-tech city in the Arabian desert, is in general rotation on all platforms. To show off the map, Blizzard have released this video Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhVZ-QIu4jkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: [NOW AVAILABLE] Oasis | New Map Preview | Overwatch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhVZ-QIu4jk) [...]

It was announced at Blizzcon back in November, but now we get our first look at the new map for Overwatch. The city is called Oasis, an incredibly

Blizzard did a lot of stuff for the anniversary, but they also sat down with the games developers and talked about the two decades that the game has been in existence, working on a mature rated game and the secrets… did someone say "cow level"? https://youtu.be/ZxHmvVBQVZwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Diablo 20th Anniversary[...]

This Saturday, December 31st, is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Diablo and Blizzard Entertainment will be celebrating it across all of their games Now they company has only teased what they'll be doing so far, but Blizzard is known for doing things up big… so I'd expect it will be worthwhile to log[...]

Blizzard has released a new video showing some of the characters, mounts and skins currently in development for Heroes of the Storm The biggest part of the video is showing off the next hero to become available in the game, Zul'jin, Warlord of the Amani A ranged assassin character with multiple abilities and variations There[...]

Lucio is one of Overwatch's most popular heroes. This isn't just because he is one of the most effective and fun healers to play (though that helps), but

The Overwatch forums in particular have been abuzz with the news, with some pretty wild (and sometimes baffling (and sometimes awful))  arguments going around about the revelation. The comic did leave a tiny room for interpretation though, and the most coherent question to come out of those arugments in my book has been, 'is Tracer lesbian[...]

In the holiday themed comic Reflections just put out by Blizzard, it's revealed that Tracer lives with someone called Emily In a panel, the two engage in a kiss confirming Blizzard's long held stance that some of Overwatch's characters identify as something other than heterosexual This is a big deal too Tracer is the 'face' of[...]

Here's how you can change the langauge, in case it's not obvious: Click the Russian language button in the lower right corner of the screen: Select the language you'd like to read the comic in, like English… Or French… And the comic should open up as normal in the language of your choice. While the lack of geo-ip based filtering[...]

Blizzard has released their new holiday themed comic for Overwatch today called Reflections by writer Michael Chu and artist Miki Montillo and in doing so outed one of their most popular characters. Over a year ago Blizzard confirmed that at least one of the heroes was gay, this story tells you which one[...]

Heroes of the Storm has released a spotlight for their newly reworked Haunted Mines map. This map is unique in the game in that on the surface it appears

Director on the game Jeff Kaplan decided to respond to the complaint, saying that he hopes that Blizzard can find the 'cool' in the future. Hi there Sorry you are disappointed with Mei's winter skin We don't have a specific rule for what makes something Legendary or Epic We just sort of make a gut call based[...]

This fan casting then got to Crews and he seemed up to for the possibility. Well, this just got pushed into overdrive, as Crews has been spotted at Blizzard Seen in a picture with Cinematic Project Director on World of Warcraft, Terran Gregory Crews was most certainly on Blizzard's campus, sending expectations that he might be[...]

Heroes of the Storm celebrates Winter Veil (Blizzard's version of Christmas) by adding two new holiday heroes Winter Veil Lunara and some crazy evil Gingerbread version of Nazeebo In the short below, the duo perform a variation on the Twelve Days of Christmas… that includes zombie cookie creatures. https://youtu.be/w14beXiD4CgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Heroes[...]

So, here is your PSA Overwatch fans. Blizzard have now lifted the curtain on the holiday event in Overwatch, Winter Wonderland is now live It was officially revealed in this new trailer, with a couple map reskins and skins for Lúcio, McCree, Mei, Pharah, Reaper, Roadhog, Sombra, Torbjörn, Tracer, Winston and Zenyatta. Oh, also, Symmetra's double ultimate[...]

Blizzard Entertainment has released a new TV commercial for their card game based video game Hearthstone The game features many of the characters from the companies MMORPG , World of Warcraft but set in a collectible card game style of play The commercial on the other hand uses a battle over guacamole as the reason[...]

We've been hearing a lot about a holiday Overwatch event for sometime, and judging by how the game has celebrated seasonal occasions, I'm sure just about