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Diablo III
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[...]
Zul'jin, Warlord Of The Amani Is Coming To Heroes Of The Storm
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[...]
Blizzard Provides Statement Confirming That Tracer Is Lesbian
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[...]
Tracer's Sexuality Didn't Make Overwatch Political – It Always Was
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[...]
Overwatch Reveals Their First Openly Gay Hero In Comic Story
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[...]
Overwatch Director Apologises Over Mei Legendary Skin Categorisation
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[...]
The Holidays Come To Heroes Of The Storm
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[...]
Overwatch's Winter Wonderland Event Is Now Live
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[...]
How Guacamole Can Lead To Video Game Duels
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[...]
Heroes Of The Storm Spotlights Ragnaros
No Blizzard turns to showcase the Lord of the Fire Elementals himself, Ragnaros This new playable hero has a few unique traits that they breakdown in full during the video… the most notable is an ability to take over an allied or destroyed force, turning him into a raid boss This isn't a heroic ability[...]