Blizzard and Xbox have announced that if you buy Obsidian's upcoming action RPG Avowed on the Battle.net platform, you'll be able to play it on Xbox, and the reverse is also true. In a post on the…
February 12, 2025 | 10:28 EST
Warcraft has been a pretty defining series for Blizzard Entertainment. While the original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was a legendary game in its own right it was Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness which…
April 20, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Two of Blizzard Entertainment's seminal RTS titles, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition are available on GOG.com for the first time. GOG announced their partnership with…
March 28, 2019 | 12:30 EDT
Four years ago, I wrote about the growing world of digital distribution. I lamented the seeming split in game distribution services and the notion that I would have who knows how many of these things…
February 25, 2019 | 01:00 EST
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Activision Blizzard laid off around 8% of its staff yesterday. Revealed by Kotaku, these cuts affected every division of the company, including Activision, King, High Moon,…
February 13, 2019 | 01:20 EST
Today, Blizzard Entertainment has announced that Bungie's Destiny 2 PC release will be free for you to keep permanently on Battle.net until November 19th. Those who have been playing Destiny 2 will…
November 2, 2018 | 03:33 EDT
With the fourth entry in the Black Ops series, Treyarch is shaking things up in some major ways. This is the first time we’ll see Call of Duty without a campaign, replaced instead with a topical…
October 17, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
The Overwatch PTR has some nerfs in store for both Mercy & Junkrat according to a post from Principal Designer Geoff Goodman on the game’s official forums. The changes were announced a couple of…
January 6, 2018 | 11:30 EST
If you've been keeping track of or playing Overwatch lately, you may have noticed that Mercy has become quite a common sight. Ever since her rework in the Junkertown update, Mercy has enjoyed a near…
November 4, 2017 | 09:45 EDT
The Blizzard Battle.net app, the client for Blizzard Entertainment's digital distribution service, has a number of new social features in beta testing according to a news post on Blizzard's official…
October 5, 2017 | 09:31 EDT
StarCraft is something which has become something more akin to a religion than a video game. It was a cultural phenomenon in South Korea and is still played by thousands of people all around the…
September 4, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Blizzard Entertainment has rebranded their digital download service (and its associated app) from "Blizzard App" to "Blizzard Battle.net" according to a news post on the company's official website.…
August 17, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
Recently, Blizzard Entertainment launched Warcraft III's PTR (Public Test Realm). The fifteen-year-old title's patch 1.28.6 PTR invites players to "... test the new Map Pools for 1's, 2's, 3's, 4's,…
August 13, 2017 | 03:13 EDT
The Year of the Mammoth, Hearthstone's new year, arrived in April and brought many changes for Blizzard's trading card game. Chief of which was the removal of the single-player quasi-expansion "…
July 10, 2017 | 04:45 EDT
After being announced in March of this year, StarCraft Remastered's release date has been announced in an intense trailer on the official StarCraft YouTube channel. Fervent StarCraft'ers can expect…
July 1, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
Blizzard, an advertisement on GameFAQS inadvertently revealed the next hero in Blizzard Entertainment's MOBA Heroes of the Storm, D.Va. Blizzard later released the trailer for the 2.0 version of…
April 25, 2017 | 04:42 EDT
Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's entry into the MOBA world, never quite set the world on fire the way that Hearthstone and Overwatch did. And perhaps that's what Blizzard are hoping to rectify with…
April 4, 2017 | 03:21 EDT
Video game publisher and developer DotEmu is closing their online store as reported by DualShockers. Founded in 2007, DotEmu is a Paris-based video games developer and publisher. They've developed…
March 22, 2017 | 11:30 EDT
StarCraft II's latest patch, 3.11, will allow players to play a new Co-Op mission (which is a cooperative mode that can be played with two players utilizing different commanders) and is based upon…
March 3, 2017 | 10:34 EST
Overwatch has continued to bleed into Heroes of the Storm with the upcoming release of battle-DJ Lucio into Blizzard's MOBA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ_1HIvclmQ In Overwatch, Lucio is an area…
February 4, 2017 | 07:30 EST
Fans of Blizzard Entertainment's games may notice a new feature in their soon to be known as Blizzard Tech app: Blizzard voice. This new functionality uses Blizzard’s app as a hub for players to chat…
October 23, 2016 | 06:15 EDT
Rebranding is nothing new in the tech industry. We see it all the time, but sometimes it really hits home when a long-standing institution is hit with it as part of our evolving world. Battle.net…
September 21, 2016 | 03:55 EDT
The patches keep on coming for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, the latest adding a new map, Mist Opportunities, and Alarak, a new Commander to StarCraft II's Co-op Missions mode. Below is a look at…
September 16, 2016 | 02:04 EDT
In this second of the three mission packs released thus far, Nova sets out to recover her memories as old and new foes begin to descend upon her. Is it better than the bore that was StarCraft II's …
August 30, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
It should come as no surprise that supporting roles or characters in games tend to be the least popular. You could probably attribute this to the fact that they are generally intended to be the most…
August 6, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
It's time to cover Overwatch's flagship hero, Tracer. Tracer is an incredibly unique offensive hero, with her ability to warp herself forward or rewind her own time backwards. Being the hero that…
July 27, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Last time we talked about the rocket launching daughter Pharah, but now it's time to talk about "Sniper-Mom" Ana. Ana Just came out, but I've played a fair amount of her, and I feel like I've found a…
July 20, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Blizzard Entertainment has released information on the newest hero (and first post-release character) to join the ranks of the Overwatch roster; Ana Amari, one of the founding members of the…
July 12, 2016 | 03:35 EDT
I've been infatuated with Overwatch since it was announced, but only this weekend did I get a chance to play it. Overwatch is just as fun as I imagined it to be, but what really struck me was how…
April 21, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
As of right now Blizzard Entertainment appears to be under a DDOS attack by Lizard Squad, a group of hackers who have successfully taken down a multitude of other large 'targets' before.Players first…
April 14, 2016 | 12:58 EDT
There are very few games that I have liked more than Team Fortress 2. It appeals to everything I like about games, starting with its variety of weapons and cartoon universe and ending with its hat…
February 25, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Those lucky individuals who were accepted into Blizzard's ongoing Overwatch beta will be pleased to know that the floodgates have been opened once again, only this time with a few more reasons to…
February 9, 2016 | 04:54 EST
In 2006, I purchased a physical copy of the Half-Life Anthology collection. It contained all of the original Half-Life games as well as Team Fortress Classic. Although the box contained a CD-ROM, I…
February 22, 2015 | 01:00 EST