Our latest coverage of Blizzard.
Blizzard is opening their first eSports "stadium" on March 30th, in Taipei City, Taiwan, according to Yahoo eSports (which you will have to translate to read). I put "stadium" in vexatious quotes because I've never seen a stadium with folding chairs—as seen below; maybe it's a translation issue. CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Mike Morhaime will be in the flesh [...]
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Following months of rumors, Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Morhaime took the stage at the I <3 StarCraft event in Seoul this weekend to officially announce StarCraft: Remastered. Expect the game to release this summer for Windows and Mac systems. The remastered edition will see the campaigns and multiplayer from both the original Starcraft and the Broodwar expansion pack updated with [...]
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Blizzard is bringing the banhammer and currently seeking a hefty $8.5 million in damages against German-based hack distributor and creator "Bossland GmbH". The ongoing lawsuit, first filed by Blizzard in California on July 1st, 2016 - accuses Bossland of trafficking "circumvention tools" and copyright infringement under the DMCA, as well as unfair competition from the profits of these violations. Despite [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has created their own book publishing label—Blizzard Publishing—to create and re-release stories set in their universes: Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft. “Great stories and inspiring artwork have always been at the heart of everything we do,” said Lydia Bottegoni, senior vice president of story and franchise development at Blizzard Entertainment. “The creation of Blizzard Publishing gives us new opportunities to [...]
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Last week, Blizzard North and Flagship Studios co-founder and "creator of Diablo" David Brevik teased fans with the following tweets, indicating that he was both at Blizzard headquarters and working on a Diablo-like title. Where is Dave today? pic.twitter.com/wlm2EQUS4p — David Brevik (@davidbrevik) October 6, 2016 For 20 years, Diablo-like games have evolved & surprised us. I'm proud to be the [...]
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After more than a decade with the World of Warcraft Team, Tom Chilton steps down as Game Director and hands over the reins to Lead Game Designer, Ion Hazzikostas. Chilton, however, will still be staying with Blizzard Entertainment to work on a different project, saying that “new adventures” await him “just down the hall”. In a farewell note to WoW [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase have signed the dotted line renewing their partnership until 2020. For you non-Chinese citizens, NetEase publishes Blizzard's library in China. The renewed operation agreement includes Blizzard's World of Warcraft®, StarCraft® II, Diablo® III, Hearthstone®, Heroes of the Storm®, and Overwatch®, as well as new content for these games during the agreement period. The news arrives just [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment announced today that they're retiring the name "Battle.net" and will return to their services with the preface Blizzard instead, e.g. "Blizzard Voice." Don't worry, the technology behind Battle.net will still be used. The reasoning for the chance is simple: Blizzard doesn't want to cause any confusion. Over time, though, we’ve seen that there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related [...]
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If you happen to be going to BlizzCon 2016 you'll be happy to know that Blizzard has finally unveiled this year's in-game goodies. For the rest of us, there's always eBay. This year's attendees will get the following exclusives: World of Warcraft: Legionnaire Murky and Knight-Captain Murphy in-game pets. Overwatch: An exclusive skin for Bastion. Diablo 3: A Diablo 20th [...]
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Blizzard announced today via press release that it has teamed up with Facebook to bring Facebook login integration to its games, as well as use "Facebook’s Live API in order to create its own 'Go Live' streaming functionality for its games." The new set of features resulting from the partnership will be available in the following titles: Diablo III, Hearthstone, [...]
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