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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[...]