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When Overwatch was first revealed in late 2014, we were greeted with an excellent cinematic trailer introducing us to the game's initial character roster. Over time, Blizzard has expanded on this with various character-focused animated shorts. At this point, all of the Overwatch animated short films have a combined run …

Loot boxes have gained quite the stigma lately, arousing controversy due to many perceiving its randomised nature and ties to microtransactions as a form of gambling. We’ve seen many games cited as a part of the problem, such as Destiny 2, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and the upcoming Star Wars …

Last year, the shutdown of Nostalrius caused quite a bit of uproar from fans of vanilla World of Warcraft. Over the years, Blizzard had been adamant about leaving the past in the past, but with hundreds of thousands of players on unofficial servers, the outcry became difficult to ignore. Now …

World of Warcraft legacy servers are popular, offering the vanilla experience of the game before its universe was expanded via expansion packs. Usually these projects are shut down due to Blizzard’s intervention, but this time the Elysium server suffered at the hands of the developers themselves after an embezzlement scandal. …

During Overwatch's first year on the market, the game has hit a number of milestones. 15 million players had enjoyed the game during the Summer of last year and by May this year, that number had doubled to 30 million. Now, with the Halloween event getting under way, Overwatch has …

Blizzard has worked hard on creating an entire world within Overwatch, comprised of a relatively simple good versus bad story full of intricate and unique characters. It’s no surprise that there’s a possibility that the developer might be looking towards expanding this universe and a recent job listing implies just …

Ahead of Destiny 2’s PC release on October 24th, Blizzard has updated its Battle.net client with brand new social features. Currently the new functions are only available in beta, which is open for anyone to use. One of the most significant introductions to the beta client is the new Social …

Last year, Diablo fans had a lot to get excited about at BlizzCon. Not only was the original Diablo rebuilt inside Diablo 3, but the game got a new class announced for its roster. This year unfortunately, things are going to be much quieter when it comes to Diablo content. …

A rare bug in Overwatch is causing some players to lose skill rating by a distinctively large margain and receive an immediate season ban. Signs of the bug have arisen since earlier this month and seem to be picking up pace. It is unknown what causes the bug, but Redditor …

Most, if not all competitive games are plagued with toxic players and the more popular the game gets, the worse the case usually is. Blizzard’s Overwatch is no different, with director Jeff Kaplan admitting that the game’s development has been slowed down because of the behaviour. The latest Overwatch update …

In light of the disasters surrounding the U.S., Blizzard has promptly shifted the release of this year’s charity pet in World of Warcraft forward. Every purchase made before December 31st will see the complete $10 adoption fee split evenly between the American Red Cross Disaster Relief and the International Federation …

Just under one year ago, Blizzard announced that it would be rebranding Battle.net after 20 years. At the time, the company just changed out the app’s name to ‘Blizzard’ in order to follow the same theme as new services like Blizzard Streaming and Blizzard Voice. However, since basically nobody stopped …

Blizzard is well on its way to launching the Overwatch League later this year, as two more franchises have signed on for spots on the league. Cloud9 has become the first UK-based franchise to be taking part, meanwhile, another Los Angeles based team has also been added to the roster, …

If you are a gamer, then chances are you aren't running Windows XP or Windows Vista at this point. However, if you have found yourself stuck in the early to mid 2000's as far as your OS is concerned, then you won't be playing any of Blizzard's games for much …

Last week, Blizzard officially announced the first seven teams for the Overwatch League esports tournament. At the same time, the league's logo was revealed, which appears to have caught the attention of Major League Baseball (MLB), which could lead to some legal trouble. Right now, MLB is said to be …

After months of hints and teases, Blizzard has officially announced Overwatch’s 25th hero, Doomfist. The legendary villain is fresh out of prison and playable on the public test realm available for PC. While some were expecting more tank aspects, Doomfist lives up to his name as an Offense character with …

With Overwatch characters being so heavily steeped in lore, the rumour mill for the next reveal never stops turning. Many fingers seem to point towards the heavily anticipated Doomfist with the latest tease coming from an update to the official Overwatch website revealing new story details. Blizzard has been quite …

Over the last couple of years, there have been a few reports surrounding remasters of classic Blizzard games. It all kicked off when Blizzard announced that it would be endeavouring to ensure Starcraft, Warcraft III and Diablo II all continued to work on modern PCs. Since then, the initiative has …

Last night during the Destiny 2 gameplay reveal, Blizzard made the surprise announcement that Bungie's shooter would be heading to Battle.net. This obviously sparked the question of whether or not we would see more Activision games pop up on Blizzard's platform in the future but as it turns out, Blizzard …

Over the last few weeks, Blizzard's lawsuit against prolific cheat maker ‘Bossland' has been swiftly escalating. Bossland is behind several subscription based ‘Buddy Bot' cheats for most of Blizzard's titles, as well as an ESP hack for Overwatch. A few weeks ago, we heard that Blizzard was seeking an $8.5 …

It looks like last week's Starcraft Remastered rumour held some truth to it as over the weekend, Blizzard dropped its announcement, giving us a trailer and a release date for the game. This remaster features a graphical overhaul for the game, though gameplay has been kept the same with no …

Back in July 2016, Blizzard filed its lawsuit against Bossland, the company behind several subscription based ‘Buddy Bots' cheats as well as and Overwatch ESP hack. At the time, the company said that Bossland had caused irreparable harm to Blizzard with its cheat business but we didn't know how much …

World of Warcraft is a huge game and one that is certainly difficult to truly get into as a solo player, which is why some guild leaders have managed to make some real-world money selling things like raid or dungeon runs. This practise has been going on for a while but …

It looks like Blizzard has found another use for WoW tokens as now not only can you use the currency to buy a month of subscription time for World of Warcraft, but you can also transfer a token into Battle.net credit. Transferring your WoW token into Battle.net credit will give …

Do you know Hearthstone like the back of your hand? Can you and a pal talk your friends' ears off with endless chatter of which card trumps which and what the best deck building strategy is? Can you top it all off with a winning personality? Then you might be …

Blizzard might have a lot of popular games available to play right now, but only one of them is in the first person perspective: Overwatch. However that may not be the case forever, as it's now created two new job listings for software engineers for an unannounced project built using …

For over a decade, the cycle of updates and releases for World of Warcraft has seen the biggest and most game changing content come from expansions, rather than patches. Moving forward though that paradigm is going to shift, to allow Blizzard to deliver story updates and more on an increasingly …

Although it doesn't look like Blizzard will be making any announcements about legacy servers at this year's Blizzcon event, it is looking to keep people entertained throughout. To help close out the show, it's hired on parody song writer/performer, Weird Al Yankovich. Of course Blizzard usually takes on the services …

With the news doing the rounds this morning that Blizzard won't be making any big announcements about legacy World of Warcraft servers at Blizzcon, we'd like to ask you the question: Do you think classic MMO universes should be preserved? If so, would you pay for the privilege? One of …

Blizzard first launched Battle.net around twenty years ago and over the years, the platform has grown to encompass more games. However, it looks like it is time for change, which is why Blizzard announced today that it will be transitioning away from the Battle.net name, with plans to replace it …