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 …
Read More »Blizzard has decided not to abandon the ‘Battle.net’ name after all
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 …
Read More »Overwatch League adds its first UK franchise
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, …
Read More »Blizzard will drop support for Windows XP and Vista starting in October
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 …
Read More »Blizzard’s Overwatch League logo may need to be changed
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 …
Read More »Doomfist revealed, throws the first punch at Overwatch in the PTR
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 …
Read More »Overwatch confirms Doomfist is on the loose, teasing his arrival
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 …
Read More »Blizzard appears to be remastering Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3
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 …
Read More »Blizzard won’t be bringing other Activision PC games to Battle.net any time soon
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 …
Read More »Blizzard awarded $8.5 million in lawsuit against cheat maker
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 …
Read More »Starcraft Remastered has been announced, will launch in Summer
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 …
Read More »Blizzard aiming for $8.5 million payout in lawsuit against cheat seller
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 …
Read More »Blizzard starts cracking down on guilds selling WoW dungeon/raid runs for real cash
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 …
Read More »Blizzard now lets you trade WoW tokens for Battle.net credit
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 …
Read More »Could you be the next Hearthstone eSports caster?
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 …
Read More »Blizzard is working on a new first person project
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 …
Read More »WoW patches to start adding more story content
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 …
Read More »Weird Al Yankovic to close out Blizzcon show
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 …
Read More »Do you think online game universes should be preserved?
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 …
Read More »Blizzard is ditching the ‘Battle.net’ name
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 …
Read More »Hooked on a feeling: Hi-Rez says Paladins isn’t an Overwatch clone
Smite developer Hi-Rez has felt the need to defend itself in the wake of a multitude of comparisons between its recent Early Access release, Paladins and Blizzard's Overwatch. It points out the character archetypes that people see in both games have existed way longer than either games. On the surface, …
Read More »WoW Legion sales top 3.3 million on day one
Sales of World of Warcraft's latest expansion, Legion, show there's still plenty of life in the Azeroth yet. On just the first day of sale, over 3.3 million copies were sold, netting Blizzard a tasty bump in revenue and no doubt a number of returning subscriptions to go along with …
Read More »Some Blizzard games are being affected by a DDOS attack
If you are experiencing any issues with Battle Net or some of Blizzard's games right now, then that would be down to a DDOS attack going on at the moment. The attack comes on the final day of Overwatch's Summer Games event, making this your last chance to get hold …
Read More »Blizzard continues hiring for unannounced Diablo project
Back in March it was revealed that Blizzard was looking for artists and programmers to start working on an unannounced Diablo project and now, the studio is looking for a director to spearhead the project. Blizzard's Irvine studio careers page has recently been updated with a listing for a ‘Game …
Read More »Could Overwatch be the next big competitor for League of Legends?
League of Legends has been the world's most popular PC game for a number of years now; in 2014 it was reported that there were over 67 million active players. But perhaps Overwatch could one day eclipse that. Although a new competitor on the scene, Overwatch is currently the second …
Read More »WoW Legion characters will get their own animated shorts too
Although Quantum Break might have failed to really deliver a game/TV show hybrid product, that doesn't mean the mediums can't be blended in some ways. Take the way Blizzard has been introducing characters for its games in recent years, something it's continuing to do so for upcoming WoW expansion, Legion. …
Read More »Nostalrius admins may be winning over Blizzard staffers
Following the recent shut down of the Nostalrius vanilla World of Warcraft fan-run server, Blizzard was pretty adamant that it wouldn't open up its own, official version. However it may be that the publishing giant is changing its mind, as a meeting with Nostalrius admins went particularly well. Nostalrius was …
Read More »Overwatch competitive mode update pushed back a bit
Update: It looks like Blizzard has had to push back its estimate for Overwatch's Competitive Mode content update. Around the time of Overwatch's release, the game's director, Jeff Kaplan speculated that the update would be ready for the last week or so of June. However, he did not give a …
Read More »Overwatch’s open beta is almost identical to final release
At this point, Overwatch is essentially finished, with its launch set to happen in just a few weeks time. So while the company is holding an open ‘beta' this week, the game's director has confirmed that what we can all play right now won't differ much from the final release, …
Read More »The Nostalrius team is meeting with Blizzard
Last week, Blizzard officially responded to fan conversation surrounding the closure of the Nostalrius private server, which sparked growing calls for an official legacy server. While the company has put out the idea of a ‘Pristine Realm' as a compromise, Blizzard is also set to meet with the team behind Nostalrius, …
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