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I'm not ashamed to admit that I am brand spanking new to Blizzard's card game, Hearthstone In fact, I only started playing last week, but had seen many people play in the last few years It's safe to say that I'm highly addicted only after a short amount of time What brought me in, you[...]

This is a pretty big deal, signalling how close we are to Blizzard's first IP in a long, long time If you did pre-order it, make sure you go look in your emails for a code This is for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 too, so no matter what version you have, you[...]

Blizzard has just released this trailer where Winston explains just a smidge about the world and back story of Overwatch It also is just about getting you pumped for character based arena game. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwFu8kEsUW4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Overwatch Cinematic Teaser | "Are You With Us?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwFu8kEsUW4) From the time I've spent[...]

The conversation came to the limelight when Blizzard shut down an unofficial fan run sever called Nostalrius, that was running vanilla WoW. The community has been pretty upset about it since it happened, but it would seem that there is light at the end of the tunnel The admin of server are set to meet with[...]

During PAX East, which happened this weekend, Blizzard were running an Overwatch promotion with Uber It was called Uberwatch, and had special souped up cars ferrying con goers from hotels to the convention centre Even the drivers were in cosplay. Well, things took an unfortunate turn last night during PAX's close As reported by Gearbox president,[...]

In this new expansion from Blizzard introduces us to a new class, Demon Hunters, a new continent, the Broken Isles as well as artifact weapons, class halls and a new PVP honor system. If you haven't played in a while, pre-ordering the expansion here gets you a level 100 character boost meaning you will be ready[...]

Tracer has become one of, if not the face of Overwatch, so there is a lot riding on her, what with heralding in Blizzard's first new IP in a long, long time. Funnily though, she isn't even going to be making her first in game appearance in Overwatch That honor will go to the Heroes of[...]

Legendary and Blizzard are putting out a graphic novel prequel to the upcoming Warcraft movie With a story by the Senior Vice President in charge of Story and Franchise development, Chris Metzen and written by Paul Cornell, the new graphic novel tells the tale of King Llane, Lothar and Medivh, three of Azeroth's great champions,[...]

Soon all those who really want in, will be in, and not long after that, the game will actually just be out. I was lucky enough to be invited out by Blizzard last week to have a go at the title, specifically on console (in my case on Xbox One.) And oh boy, iI can tell[...]

Blizzard then agreed to change it, causing people to get mad that a pose showing off the character's bum was taken out, claiming censorship I wrote a whole thing on it. Well, a new pose has been put in and it should (but almost certainly won't) put an end to this whole thing It's still a[...]

Overwatch is slowly making its way here, and I for one am really quite excited. While I'm waiting though, I am finding these animated shorts about the

Fans of the on-line card strategy game Hearthstone can now leave the tavern and play their favorite characters in a 3-D MMORPG as shows in the video released below. [youtube]https://youtu.be/nV0twbU3IhA[/youtube] This was not our April Fool's joke, it is totally on Blizzard Check out their other jokes including a list of patch notes and the new Frostdoge[...]

Blizzard decided to heed the advice and make the change, causing outrage from people claiming censorship of the original work. Well, just a few days later, it has happened again A petition has started online, claiming that a bug in the game has been changed, which previously had players falling through the map The petition claims[...]

movements. One group who does have an answer though, is Kaplan and Blizzard In fact, they more or less have the only answer that matters They can take suggestions from the public on all sorts of things, but ultimately, it's their choice alone to decide what ends up as their complete artistic vision when the game[...]

Blizzard will be releasing a new mission pack for StarCraft II on the 29th of this month StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops looks pretty intense and from the looks of the trailer below, Nova Terran is having her loyalties to the Dominion questioned Like with all of Blizzards franchises, Nova has a rich and deep[...]

Blizzard have a deep history of really quite astonishing animation work The scope of their creations are just as big as any film animation division, and it really is worth going to explore their past work if you never have. If you want a wonderful representation of their quality though, check out this new 8 minute[...]

Co-founder of Blizzard North, David Brevik has released the original pitch doc for the game It's 8 pages long, making it a pretty brisk read, and it's fascinating to see the first step to what would go on to become one of the most important tiles ever released. If you want to grab a look at[...]

Yesterday, Overwatch's release date was supposedly leaked via an IGN advert that ran too early evidently. Well, just as some clean up, that has now been confirmed, with Blizzard confirming that the release date is indeed May 24th However, the beta is now set for May 5th-9th for those who pre-order that game, so you can[...]

Overwatch has had people jazzed for years at this point. From the brilliant looking art style, to great word of mouth from those who've played it. We've

Dear Blizzard Fans, prepare to indulge this April as Funko releases Warcraft collections of Mystery Minis, POP!s, and Dorbz In light of the movie which is set to release this June, it's only fitting that some products are released for the already huge fanbase. For those of you who don't know, the Warcraft movie follows orc warriors fleeing their dying home[...]

Blizzard are one of the biggest developers int he world, with one of the most rabid fanbases That really became apparent with the launch of World of Warcraft back in 2004, but the company has a history much richer than that In fact, the developer/publisher/entertainment heavyweight is turning 25 years old this year and to[...]

Blizzard Entertainment is celebrating their 25th anniversary (as of yesterday) and have released this thank you video featuring CEO and Co-Founder Mike Morhaime and CDO and Co-Founder Frank Pearce In that 25 years they created multiple popular franchises including Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone and in the next year we'll get[...]

Blizzard's new IP has people jazzed and I really can't wait to get hands on with it. If you are lucky enough to be in the closed beta probgram, you'll be happy to know the beta is coming back next week It will launch on February 9th, sporting AI private matches, new maps, a new mode[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors closed their home office early on Friday, as the blizzard hit the East Coast The only major comic book distributor remains closed today, dealing with the effects of the snowstorm and current thaw flood. We're not sure what of this week's comics have made it out, But one way of another – be[...]

Being Blizzard's first new IP in a hell of a long time, that's probably to be expected though. If you were hoping to be invited into the next beta that was set for 'mid-late January', know you will be waiting a little longer Speaking on the Overwatch forums, director Jeff Kaplan said that the data from the last[...]

One of the products coming out of CES 2016 ties into very popular MMORPG from Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft and their upcoming Warcraft film IGN took at look at two of the products, the first being a battery bank that is shaped like the Doomhammer or an Alliance Shield and then there are statues[...]

Blizzard is running a promotion that if you adopt the in-game pet Brightpaw, 100% of its adoption fee will go to the Make-A-Wish foundation. The pet is actually quite adorable and cat-like From the video below it also looks like a trouble-maker You can use it to battle other pets, and all of your W.O.W[...]

Blizzard really do seem to be putting a lot of stock in the game, and from the sounds of it, it's really paying off. And hey, this should please fans even further In a new developer video, it was revealed that there are new ideas for maps and characters post-launch, and Blizzard, instead of offering these[...]

But if you want to be a swashbuckling scoundrel… say hello to Outlaw. For more information on the proposed changes to Rogues, check out this write up by Blizzard. And after a week's worth of articles we come down to the last of the character classes, but certainly not the least The stealthy and dangerous Rogue[...]

Mastery is focused on Razor Claws, increasing the bleed damage done by your attacks while on of the talent specific traits is Jagged Wounds, a passive talent that doesn't change the damage your Rip, Rake and Thrash abilities does… but it makes it happen 33% faster. There are some great themes behind the Guardian Druids but[...]