After a near 20-year long career at the studio, Jeff Kaplan has announced that he is leaving Blizzard, continuing a trend of long-term creative leads departing from the company. Most recently, Kaplan was in charge of Overwatch and had begun leading development on Overwatch 2. Kaplan joined Blizzard in 2002 …

Back in February, during BlizzCon 2021, Blizzard shadow-dropped the Blizzard Arcade Collection, packaging together three classic Blizzard titles from the 90s. Blizzard is now expanding the collection, adding another two games. The Blizzard Arcade Collection began with three games, the first of which is The Lost Vikings, a puzzle platformer …

Blizzard is making good progress in Diablo 2: Resurrected, with the first technical play test set to begin this month. Blizzard has invited players to sign up for the first alpha test, which will focus on the single-player portion of the game.  The technical alpha test for Diablo 2: Resurrected …

March has been a big month for Crash Bandicoot, not only have we seen Crash Bandicoot 4 launch for next-gen consoles, Nintendo Switch and PC, but a mobile spin-off has also come out, which garnered over 8 million downloads on its first day.  Crash Bandicoot: On the Run launched on …

Blizzard has caused some drama this week after making changes to ‘game time' codes for World of Warcraft. While previously people could buy game time cards for 30, 60, 90 or 180 days, three of those options have been removed, leaving 60 day game time purchases as the only option.  …

Back in 2019, Activision Blizzard underwent a round of lay-offs, losing hundreds of staff members. This year, the company has another round of job cuts on the way, this time focusing on the esports division, which has suffered due to the lack of live events over the course of the …

Blizzard has finally begun upgrading Overwatch for next-gen consoles. In a patch this week, the developers added Xbox Series X/S enhancements to the game, bringing additional graphics modes – including a 120Hz mode. Overwatch on Xbox Series X/S will now have three different performance/graphics presets. The first is “resolution”, which …

Diablo 2: Resurrected is officially coming out this year, with development handled by the excellent team at Vicarious Visions, previously responsible for the Crash Bandicoot N'Sane trilogy remake. Following on from the game's announcement at BlizzCon, the PC version's system requirements have been revealed.  Diablo 2: Resurrected is a remaster …

BlizzCon Online officially kicked off late last night and as previously rumoured, we did indeed get announcement for Diablo 2: Resurrected, a remaster of the fan-favourite ARPG for PC and consoles.  Diablo 2: Resurrected will be releasing for PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4 and Nintendo Switch later …

The BlizzCon announcement leaks continue ahead of this weekend's virtual event. This time around, a collection of Blizzard Classics have leaked, with the studio bringing back three games from its humble beginning back in the 90s.  A leaked listing for the Blizzard Arcade Collection was spotted on the PEGI website …

We learned via an earnings call earlier this week that Blizzard won't be releasing Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2 this year. However, we will be seeing both games in action at BlizzCon, which takes place later this month.  The BlizzCon Online schedule went live last night, so we know what …

Back in late 2019, Blizzard announced both Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. Neither game has been given a release date yet, but many had hoped we'd see at least one of them in 2021. This week, Activision Blizzard confirmed that this won't be the case. During Activision Blizzard's quarterly earnings …

Activision is making a surprising change this week. Vicarious Visions, the studio behind the Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, is going to be merging into Blizzard.  Vicarious Visions will soon be a new division within Blizzard. From there, all of Vicarious Vision's employees …

If for some reason you've never tried Overwatch, or never purchased it since the 2016 launch, then you have plenty of time to give Blizzard's shooter a go over the Christmas break. From now until the 4th of January, Overwatch is free to play.  Overwatch has had plenty of free …

As we know from the disastrous announcement at BlizzCon 2018, Blizzard has been working on a mobile Diablo game for a few years now. Not much news has come out about the project since its announcement, but that changes this week, as the game is now publicly playable in alpha …

We won't just be seeing Diablo 4 at BlizzCon Online in early 2021, Blizzard also has confirmed plans to show off progress on Overwatch 2. Overwatch lead, Jeff Kaplan, discussed the plans in an announcement post this week.  In the Overwatch Development Update video, Kaplan explains that we will be …

Each time a new World of Warcraft expansion launches, it seems to out-do the previous one in terms of sales. The case is no different for the recently launched Shadowlands expansion, which Blizzard claims is the “fastest-selling PC game of all time industry-wide”. Previously, the fastest selling PC-only game was …

In a surprise announcement, Blizzard today has announced that World of Warcraft now runs natively on Apple Silicon. The announcement comes just in time for the launch of Apple's latest MacBooks, all powered by the Apple M1 SoC.  This is very notable, as it means WoW can run on ARM64 …

Ahead of WoW's next big expansion launch, Blizzard is making an effort to crack down on certain in-game practices. The most notable thing here is a renewed stance against multi-boxing and automated gameplay methods.  This week, Blizzard issued a policy update for input broadcasting software. This allows a single keystroke …

When microtransactions were first introduced, many video game players expressed their dissatisfaction with the implementation of this new form of monetisation. Despite the narrative mostly remaining the same in the years since, it appears as though microtransactions are here to stay. According to Activision Blizzard, the company made $1.2 Billion …

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is finally releasing later this month after delays pushed it out of October and it is already looking to be the biggest expansion launch for the game so far.  During a recent Activision Blizzard earnings call, the publisher boasted that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has the …

Last week, Blizzard officially announced that it was done with StarCraft 2 content development. Now, several former Blizzard RTS veterans have left the studio behind, teaming up to build a new strategy-focused studio of their own.  Frost Giant Studios has been announced this week with the aim of building “the …

It has been five years since Blizzard released its last major expansion, Legacy of the Void, for StarCraft II. Since then, Blizzard has released smaller content updates for StarCraft II but those are coming to an end this year. Today, Blizzard officially announced that it has ceased development on StarCraft …

Despite launching in 2015, Overwatch continues to be enjoyed by a large number of players. As such, each year, the team-based hero shooter celebrates Halloween with a limited time event. Dubbed the ‘Halloween Terror’, players will be able to play a number of limited time game modes, while also potentially …

Mike Morhaime left Blizzard a while back amid reports of growing influence and pressure from Activision. At the time, we all thought the former Blizzard co-founder would retire, but as it turns out, he is not quite done with the games business just yet.  This week, Mike Morhaime has partnered …

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 remake recently released to high praise. The first game in the series since the widely panned ‘Pro Skater 5’, 1+2 proved that the franchise can still offer an enticing and fun skateboarding experience. It appears as though this critical success has turned into commercial …

It looks like World of Warcraft players may want to consider moving the long-running MMO over to an SSD soon, as Blizzard has updated the minimum requirements for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. According to the new expansion's minimum system requirements, players should ideally be using an SSD.  This is likely …

Back in March, former Gears of War franchise head, Rod Fergusson, moved over to Blizzard to helm Diablo 4's development. Of course, the global coronavirus pandemic hit just one week later, which has had an impact on many game development studios. In the case of Diablo IV, while there were …

As we learned back in May, Blizzard will not be hosting a BlizzCon this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, event organisers said that an online alternative was being explored and now, it looks like those plans have been finalised, with a digital BlizzCon set for early …

The rumour mill began spinning early this week, as World of Warcraft: Shadowlands was rated in Brazil for both PC and Xbox Series X. There have been rumours of a console port for WoW floating around for years and at the time, this seemed like the evidence console-only gamers had …