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Blizzard Drops Teaser Trailer For Harbingers, A New Series Of Animated Shorts
Yesterday, Blizzard Entertainment released a trailer for Harbingers, a new World of Warcraft: Legion animated series about the followers of Illidan Stormrage. The first full episode of Harbingers will debut at the Warcraft: Road to Legion panel at SDCC, where attendees will get to learn more about Legion from Blizzard's James Waugh, Dave Kosak, Matt Samia[...]
A New Overwatch Character Is Getting Announced At SDCC
There is one called 'Behind the Scenes of Overwatch's Newest Hero' and it will take place during convention at an unspecified point. The expectation is that the character will be a support sniper thanks to recent hints by Blizzard, and some expect it to be the long rumoured Sombra character We will have to see in[...]
Professional Overwatch Player Accused Of Cheating Due To Being A Woman
So much so that several of her opponents have reported her directly to Blizzard Korea for suspected cheating Several players even bet their Overwatch careers on it, while at least one even threatened to "vist her house with a knife" if she was found cheating. Gegury has now been cleared of all suspected cheating charges though, ending[...]
Overwatch Reaches 10 Million Players
Blizzard have announced that the game has now been experienced by 10 million players That is a lot for a new IP. Enthusiasm for the game seems to be maintaining, as the number of people who've played it goes up and up I think Overwatch is going to be with us for some time still. Far[...]
Overwatch Gets An Honest Game Trailer
The Honest Trailer folks have done up an Honest Game Trailer for the new Blizzard game Overwatch Some of the points made in the trailer are very accurate… like the losing track of time while playing, how overpowered Bastian is and those damn escort carts are slow But the feedback on the game has been[...]
Blizzard Say Overwatch Cross Platform Play Is A Possibility
From the expansion of cross play and the idea of iterative consoles, everything we took for granted about a multiple console market is being thrown out. That hasn't missed Blizzard's gaze either When asked by a user on Twitter if the company was planning any sort of cross play support, the official Twitter account didn't exactly[...]
Overwatch Has Hosted 7 Million Players So Far
Blizzard have announced that 7 million people have been playing the game since launch, and that number is only rising They also said that the game have been played for over 119 million hours, which shows that there is a fair bit of playtime person to person. Now lets just get competitive mode in and start rolling[...]
Overwatch's Competitive Mode Is In Fact Coming In June After Delay Scare
It seems someone on Blizzard's social media team got the wrong end of the stick The account has now issued a correction confirming the mode is indeed coming this month In a Tweet they said: @adrianmaturell Sorry about this! Competitive Play will be coming later in *JUNE*, not July Apologies again for the error ???? — Overwatch[...]
[Updated] Overwatch Competitive Play Has Been Delayed A Month
Blizzard have taken to Twitter to announce that the game will be missing the first projected June date, and will instead be hitting in July In a Tweet to a fan, they said: @jurizar3 We're aiming for mid-to-late July. — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) May 27, 2016 This is a little disappointing, as since I have most of my favorite[...]
Skylanders Battlecast Is Hearthstone…But Not Really.
I'm sure people have thought of what it would be like to play Blizzard's popular online card game Hearthstone in physical form Well, now you can…sort of…Skylanders has mimicked Hearthstone with their new game Skylanders Battlecast. That card design looks a bit familiar doesn't it? Thankfully, they still make commercials that show a bunch of kids playing it so we can[...]