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New World Of Warcraft Expansion Being Announced At GamesCom
It recently grew with the Warlords of Draenor expansion too, which saw a big spike in players resubscribing for the game (before dropping off again). Well, the game is about to get bigger still, as in a blog post on their website, Blizzard announced that a new expansion will be revealed at their GamesCom press conference[...]
SDCC '15: Legendary Releases Posters For Warcraft – Alliance And Horde
Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment have released posters for the upcoming film Warcraft The posters features a member of each of the warring factions: Alliance and Horde. Warcraft stars Ben Foster, Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Rob Kazinsky and is directed by Duncan Jones, . Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment have released posters[...]
SDCC '15: Warcraft: Bonds Of Brotherhood Graphic Novel Coming In May 2016
Setting the stage for the new film Warcraft, Legendary Comics announced the official graphic novel prequel Warcraft: Bonds of Brotherhood today at the Blizzard panel. Based on the video game franchise, this is an original story conceived by Blizzard's Chris Metzen, written by Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) and featuring art from Mat Broome (Batman: No Man's Land, WildC.A.T.S., Witchblade). Warcraft: Bonds of Brotherhood will be released in May 2016, weeks before[...]
World Of Warcraft Area Has Been Stunningly Recreated In Unreal 4
I have very fond memories of strolling around the Azeroth and just enjoying the sights of Blizzard's universe. That is why this fan recreated area is right up my ally Designer Daniel Luchau, decided that he should put his skills to the test in Unreal Engine 4 and recreate one of the game's most famous areas Elwynn Forest[...]
Blizzard's Overwatch Is Considering Other Platforms At the Moment
Blizzard's newest IP Overwatch has slowly been ramping up its marketing, with new characters being reveal semi-regularly The game has a ton of potential, what with it coming from World of Warcraft creators Blizzard, to blow our socks off and become a huge hit. You'd expect the game to hit PC first, what with that being[...]
World Of Warcraft Selfie Contest
Blizzard has announced a World Of Warcraft Selfie contest and among the varioius prizes are tickets to Blizzcon This is in conjunction with their recently released in-game selfie camera The contest works like a scavenger hunt where it gives you a certain location and you go there and take a selfie like the one in the[...]
Blizzard's Heroes Of The Storm Moba Gets A Release Date
Heroes of the Storm has been in Alpha and Beta in the Moba scene for a while now, but a full release has yet remained elusive. The pitch is pretty simple: it's brings together characters from all of Blizzard's IP into the arena e-sports realm Seeing characters from Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo go at it in[...]
Hearthstone Now Available On Mobile Devices For Free
It's a fantastic game, but if I'm on my PC, I don't want Hearthstone taking up my entire screen. That's why I'm very pleased Blizzard have now released the game on the App Store, Google Play and Amazon for mobile phone devices While screen size is an issue, the app is now on a device I[...]
Take A Look At Diablo 3 In The Third Person
This is an evolution from the 2D way the original game was rendered, with Blizzard deciding to keep the aesthetic as graphical power grew. I have always wondered what Diablo III would look like from another perspective though YouTube user monstrousd3 has now satisfied that curiosity He moved the game into an third person perspective to make it[...]
Overwatch Is Getting A Beta This Fall And Gets A Few More Characters
In the week of madness that sees GDC and PAX East squashed together, we are beginning to see the first bit of news from latter. Blizzard had a panel today and announced that the arena battler Overwatch would be coming to beta this fall You can sign up to be considered for that right here. There were[...]
World Of WarCraft Community Raised $1.9 Million To Fight Ebola
Those can be a little tough to find at times, so we will take them where we can. Blizzard have announced that the World of WarCraft community banded together to fight Ebola and provide relief in Africa by raising $1.9 million To donate, players bought a cute little goat pet called Argi, which saw 100% of[...]