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Blizzard have opened up access to its new “Hero Brawler”, Heroes of the Storm with paid access via the Founder's Pack, that is now available in the Battle.net store. Although when the final game is released, it will be a free to play title, the Founder's Pack does come with …

Blizzard's upcoming shooter, Overwatch, may need to undergo a name change after the US Patent and Trademark Office suspended the Overwatch application last week. The game was initially announced at Blizzcon last year and there has been a high level of excitement for it ever since. The US Patent an …

Good news Hearthstone players with Android tablets! Blizzard has just released the game you love for the tablet you own, allowing you to play  wherever you desire. But there is a temporary problem for some of us… Unfortunately for the first few days, you will only be able to download the …

Ok so World of Warcraft has never really been low on subscriptions, even recently when it was at a historic low of just over seven million, but the latest expansion Warlords of Draenor (WoD) has given it a huge boost. In just 24 hours after the expansion's launch, Blizzard sold (not shipped) …

World of Warcraft's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, launched this week but unfortunately for those trying to play, Blizzard faced massive server issues in Europe and the North American servers faced DDOS attacks from those trying to sabotage the expansion's launch. Blizzard acknowledged the attacks on the World of Warcraft …

The next expansion for mega MMO World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor (WoD) will go live on the US and EU servers in the next few hours. This will be the fifth expansion to the game, which was originally released 10 years ago this month. Warlords of Draenor will be …

Unfortunately it doesn't look like you will ever be able to play Diablo III with friends on other platforms and console players also won't be getting Seasonal heroes according to Blizzard. Diablo III lead designer, Kevin Martens said that cross-platform play is “definitely not possible at this point with this …

Blizzcon officially kicked off just a few hours ago and during the opening ceremony Blizzard decided to announce its first new franchise in a long time- Overwatch. Overwatch is a cartoonish team-based first person shooter, currently those at the event are comparing the game to Team Fortress 2. A CG …

World of Warcraft is now ten years old and Blizzard is fully expecting it to still be around when it turns twenty, according to lead designer, Ion Hazzikostas. With Blizzard's recently cancelled MMO, Titan, now out of the picture, it looks like to publisher is throwing its resources back in …

Blizzard has announced that the iPhone and Android smartphone versions of Hearthstone won't be available until early next year, although Android tablet owners will be able to get the game before Christmas. The CCG has grown immensely in popularity since it launched in closed beta form last year. So far …

If you feel like you have nailed down your legend deck in Blizzard's turn based collectible card game, Hearthstone, then you better start getting ready to head back to the drawing board, as the next expansion for the hit free to play title is going to add more than 100 …

Blizzard has announced that soon World of Warcraft players will be able to revive past characters that they had deleted. The ‘Undelete' feature will be rolling out in a content patch just prior to the release of Warlords of Draenor. Not all characters will be eligible for recovery though, characters …

Blizzard has apparently canned its upcoming next gen MMO, Titan, after seven years in development. Rumors began swirling around the title once again last year when it was reported that Blizzard was taking the project ‘back to the drawing board' but it seems that it will never see the light …

A lot of you have been playing Hearthstone for a while now, gradually figuring out the mechanics, the meta game and just what cards your opponent might be about to play to ruin your day. That no doubt means you're getting quite good, better than most in-fact and the stats …

Who would have thought when Hearthstone launched officially earlier this year, that the next hugely popular, competitive title to hit the PC would be a collectible card game? Well you better believe it now, as Blizzard has released an image on Twitter to celebrate the fact that it now has …

Google's anti-fraud and abuse researcher, Dr. Elie Bursztein, has created a personal Hearthstone tool which can count cards in order to predict an opponent's moves, while also establishing the value of every card in the game. However, despite showing it off at Defcon, the tool will not be made public. …

Is it all down hill from here for World of Warcraft? Possibly, well at least as far as the subscriber count is concerned as the MMO's lead designer, Tom Chilton, has said that Blizzard doesn't necessarily expect the game to grow again. In an interview with MCV, Chilton said: “We …

Blizzard has issued a warning to those thinking about cheating in StarCraft II, stating that cheaters will be banned in waves as well as on a case by case basis upon receiving reports from other players. However, the company admits that it can't go in to much detail on its …

Dealing with hackers and cheaters is an endless battle for those running online multiplayer games. FPS titles are often some of the worst hit due to their popularity, with wall-hacks and aimbots sometimes ruining gameplay for large numbers of players, but these hacks are present in other genres too. In …

Hearthstone has finished its soft-launch and is now available on the iPad worldwide. Blizzard's free to play card game currently has over 10 million registered players, a number that is likely to grow now that it is available on more platforms. Hearthstone spent quite a long time in closed beta …

Blizzard's popular free to play collectible card game, Hearthstone, has begun rolling out to iPads. The developer is referring to this as a ‘soft-launch' as it is currently only available in select countries in order to test the app's stability but global availability is expected to come soon. Right now …

Blizzard's Warcraft themed card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, has finally left its invite only stage and has entered open beta in North America, meaning anyone from that region of the world can now download the game and get to grips with its “card slinging action.” “It’s been a crazy …

Evidently fed up of parents contacting it to say that their kids have taken their credit card and run up hundreds if not thousands of pounds on their behalf, Blizzard has now enacted a new policy, whereby all Battle.net accounts that have parental controls enabled, will have the ability for …

A crowd funding campaign has been launched to help support Ron Nakada, a senior software engineer at Blizzard with Stage 4 colon cancer whose short term disability insurance recently ended. Nakada was diagnosed six months ago which was early in to his first year of marriage, since the diagnosis he has …

Universal and Legendary Pictures have confirmed that the long awaited Warcraft movie has been pushed back from late 2015 to March 2016. This is most likely to avoid clashing with Star Wars which is slated to hit theaters on the 18th of December. Considering the competition, the delay is a …

Colin Farrell and Warcraft aren't two name you'd juxtapose without a few drinks and some nerd speculation, but come together they may well do, as his rumoured involvement with the long delayed project just jumped up a notch, after he told IGN that not only had he read the script, …

Activision Blizzard, one of the world's biggest game publishing companies, was set to buy itself out from parent company Vivendi, but that has now been stalled, due to a lawsuit from shareholder Douglas Hayes, which suggests that the sale could not be completed without unfairly enriching CEO of Activision Blizzard …

Diablo III was a big hit. It sold millions and millions of copies and remained a headline grabber for many sites and publications for quite some time. Unfortunately though, quite a few of those headlines revolved around gold hacks, or items being stolen from accounts – all of which stemmed …

Once upon a time, Warcraft was the most valuable gaming IP in the real world. But the days when people flocked to pay per month online are gone and it's now a game of ‘How can we reduce the level of loss?'.   Back on 9th May 2013, Forbes reported …

Uh oh. Blizzard has been doing some real overhauling of its Titan game as of late, with a complete overhaul of who was working on it and what it was a few months back and now thanks to the growth and spread of free to play – and the slow …