Blizzard chief development officer and co-founder Frank Pearce is leaving the company after 28 years. Pearce founded Blizzard as Silicon & Synapse in 1991, along with former Blizzard president Mike Morhaime, who stepped down last year, and current senior vice president Allen Adham. In a farewell message posted on…
Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has explained how the new role queue feature will work in-game. Both quick play and competitive modes will, by default, incorporate role queue. You’ll queue up for matches based on whether you want to play tank, damage, or support, and in the case of competitive, you’ll have a separate…
Out of all the characters recreated in plastic for Hasbro’s first wave of Overwatch action figures, the hands-down,…
We’re once again in the midst of summer’s steamiest months, and you know what that means: Blizzard has made yet…
Overwatch League is officially leaving Los Angeles next year. Well, for the most part. Season three will consist of 52 “homestand weekend events” at venues in teams’ home cities. Teams will be split into four divisions based on relative travel distance between their locations. All games will take place on weekends, as…
Around this time last year, the professional Overwatch team Shanghai Dragons had just finished up a history-making…
Blizzard is currently testing a new and interesting way of dealing with cheaters in an Overwatch match: whenever…
New expansion season has rolled around yet again for Hearthstone. With the “Saviors of Uldum” set, coming August 6,…
In the lead-up to Hearthstone’s upcoming “Saviors of Uldum” expansion, Blizzard Entertainment released a patch…
Last week, Twitch announced a new feature that’s already proven divisive: subscriber-only streams. True to their…
Overwatch just kicked off a new themed challenge event, this one focused on combat medic Baptiste. Inspired by the “What You Left Behind” short story Blizzard released yesterday, the Reunion Challenge offers new Baptiste cosmetics—including a special skin—to players who win games from June 18 to July 1. You can also…
From time to time, Blizzard gives away free Hearthstone cards. Sometimes, they are good. But sometimes, as with the…
If you tuned into the Overwatch League’s Friday games, you probably saw dozens of esports fans decked out in rainbow…
World Of Warcraft Classic is kinda wild when you think about it. It’s a time capsule from 2004 that you can live…
Blizzard has canceled a StarCraft first-person shooter that had been in development for the past two years,…
The Overwatch Workshop, which allows players to create new modes with robust tools and rudimentary programming, has…
If I was a betting man, I’d put my entire accumulated fortune of [single, chirping cricket inside a wallet] on the…
It’s easy to get caught up in rosy nostalgia when talking about long-lost series from years past, but there’s…
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