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Blizzard Entertainment released a new animated short today for World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands as you look into a new beyond Afterlives: Maldraxxus, the second installment in Blizzard's new Afterlives series of animated shorts, is the second of the series The first of which came out when the latest expansion for the game was given a release date[...]

Blizzard posted a rather interesting piece on their website this week as they explored Hearthstone's developments from home It doesn't matter what major studio a game comes out of, the vast majority of them have the game's team in an area where they can group up and communicate to get a product produced faster than[...]

During Gamescom 2020's Opening Night Live, Blizzard finally revealed the release date for World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands as October 27th With the announcement came a brand new animated trailer simply called Afterlives: Bastion, in which they give you some storyline insight into what's been going on behind the scenes a little Regardless of your status,[...]

Blizzard has released details this week about the upcoming Warcraft Arena World Championship and the teams in the BFA Circuit After weeks of competition, the organizers have rounded it down to sixteen of the best AWC teams from both North America and Europe Those teams are Cloud9, Wildcard Gaming, Spacestation Gaming, XSET, Golden Guardians, nLite, M2KC,[...]

Blizzard has officially launched the Summer Games 2020 event in Overwatch, bringing with it a ton of new activities and skins Like most events, you're getting a bunch of new items you can unlock or purchase with in-game currency, but this time around they've added a new game with Lucioball Remix For those of you[...]

Blizzard Entertainment's staff just started a major discussion over wage disparities in their company after sharing wages over the weekend The story comes from Bloomberg who is reporting that several employees at the company started anonymously circulating a spreadsheet where they detailed what they were making and what their last pay increase was Depending on[...]

Beast Kingdom and Blizzard have teamed up for the 10th Anniversary of the iconic game StarCraft II Two of the most popular characters from the series come to life with new D-Stage statues, Jim Raynor and Sarah Louise "Kerrigan" Each StarCraft II statue is highly detailed and stands roughly 7" tall Each character is posed[...]

Blizzard has decided to celebrate the tenth anniversary of StarCraft II the best way they can at the moment, with a new update for the game With COVID-19 happening, any plans the company might have had to show appreciation to their fans may have gone out the window However, they still are showing appreciation to[...]

Some quick esports news from Blizzard this week as the Hearthstone Masters Tour Online: Madrid has moved to October A little bit of a change in plans for the company, as COVID-19 is still playing havoc with the esports schedule across the board around the world The Masters Tour will still be played online, just[...]

Early this morning, Blizzard crowned a new champion for the Hearthstone Masters Tour Online: Asia-Pacific as Leta takes home the title Like a lot of events right now, this was held completely online, happening in the wee hours of the morning for those of us in the west. Leta will take home $32,500 from the pool,[...]

It isn't uncommon for Blizzard to replace the artwork of sprays, either because they want to adjust something or change the color or the way it's presented when it hits a surface But the latest change is a complete swap-out of a previous spray While the latest patch notes for the 2.93 update make no[...]

We have more details and the trailer for you to check out. How can you go wrong in an outfit like this? Courtesy of Blizzard. Overwatch: Play To Earn Your wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or Arcade will earn you new player icons, a new emote, and a new legendary skin: Maestro Sigma! 3 Wins | 2 Player[...]

Blizzard has revealed the latest expansion for Hearthstone today, as it's time for you to go back to school with the Scholomance Academy The latest expansion brings with it a number of changes and additions The first being Dual-Class cards, which saves a bit of time and creates a whole new complex level of competition[...]

Over the weekend, Blizzard held their Mythic Dungeon International Battle for Azeroth Global Championship live online for all to see Like a lot of esports systems, Blizzard had to think outside the box a bit when it came to COVID-19 putting the kibosh on everything for 2020 The Mythic Dungeon International was one of the[...]

After being delayed a couple of times, Blizzard finally revealed details about the Shadowlands update coming to World Of Warcraft The video, which we have for you at the bottom, shows Executive Producer John Hight and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas going over the entire layout of what Shadowlands will have What's more, there will be[...]

This week, Blizzard unveils a brand new esports event to be held online with the StarCraft II War Chest Team League The company is teaming up with Wardi with a commitment of $150k of War Chest proceeds to hold a community-run tournament The tournament will happen in two phases across eight broadcast days for four weeks[...]

Blizzard released a new quarterly developer update for Diablo IV this week, showing off some pre-alpha images and more details on the game The update from Game Director Luis Barriga, which you can read here, briefly goes over what they've been working on and how the game will play out Including areas such as storytelling,[...]

This morning, Blizzard revealed when they would finally hold the World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands live stream event after being postponed Originally the event was going to happen in early June, but with the world in chaos over both COVID-19 and the ongoing fallout from the death of George Floyd, company reps decided to postpone the[...]

Blizzard released an update into Hearthstone earlier this week as players can now experience the solo adventure, Trial By Felfire The adventure came out as part of the 17.4 Patch that came out on Wednesday, which added a bunch of new content including new cards, updates to Battlegrounds, and a few other tweaks and bug[...]

Activision Blizzard is all too aware of this with Warcraft in 2016 Despite surpassing the $400 million mark worldwide, the Duncan Jones film grossly underperformed domestically, failing to cross $100 million in North America Despite Warcraft's failure, Activision Blizzard has a few other significant IPs to exploit that remain immensely popular in Diablo, Starcraft, and[...]

Blizzards are still releasing content for Heroes Of The Storm as the game just got a new hero int he form of Mei from Overwatch Her addition to the game comes from the latest patch, which also has added a new weather condition for you to deal with, and the return of Nexomania for a[...]

Blizzard and Scholastic have teamed up to bring you a new Overwatch novel based on Efi and Orisa called The Hero Of Numbani The book was announced clear back in October 2019 as being in the works, but we didn't see anything about it at BlizzCon 2019 or heard anything since then until today Now[...]

This week, Blizzard revealed a new esports competition for those still at home with the World Of Warcraft Classic Summer Bowl For the first time since they introduced WoW Classic, the World of Warcraft Esports division will bring you a 10v10 Warsong Gulch tournament beginning June 17th For three weeks, which will eventually culminate on[...]

This qualifier will replace some of the original leadups that were going to happen before everything was postponed or canceled, but will still be a part of the Montreal Masters that Blizzard and Dreamhack were going to hold this year You can get the full details of what's happening below along with how you can[...]

Blizzard has released details today about a new set of games for the Overwatch League as they launch a new Summer Showdown Tournament For the next four weeks, the league will be holding a set of regional tournaments that will operate like the May Melee did, only held online due to the COVID-19 outbreak Starting[...]

It was short and to the point with no major details about when it would be rescheduled or any other content relating to Blizzard. More important voices than ours need to be heard, and now is the time to listen We are postponing our upcoming World of Warcraft: Shadowlands livestream planned for June 9, and will[...]

Blizzard Entertainment announced this week they'll have new information to reveal about World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands The company revealed that on June 9th, we will see World of Warcraft Executive Producer John Hight and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, live from their homes, as they share a look at some of the new content from the next[...]

This afternoon, Blizzard Entertainment finally made the call to cancel BlizzCon 2020 due to the concerns of COVID-19 this year The word came down on social media and through the company's website, where Blizzard's executive producer of BlizzCon, Saralyn Smith, addressed the situation Here's her statement for you to read as it's clear they will[...]

The word came down from the company earlier today that they would begin the road to qualifiers as Blizzard continues to navigate the waters of holding tournaments online that are fair and free fo cheating While the event may not be held in Montreal, they'll carry on the name in the spirit of the event[...]

Blizzard officially kicked off the 2020 Anniversary event for Overwatch today, and with it come details of what it has in store Pretty much as we had suspected, everything is being opened up for players to collect Skins from the past four years' worth of events and specialty items are now on the table for[...]