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Diablo IV's Super-Popular Beta Returns For One More Weekend
20.4.2023
Blizzard announced that Diablo IV’s super-popular beta will get one final playable weekend from May 12 through May 14, letting you take another trip to Hell and Sanctuary before the action-RPG’s imminent June 6 release date.Read more
Here’s What’s Going On With Your Overwatch 2 Rank
12.4.2023
Although Blizzard promised that the dreaded Overwatch 2 rank decay would not happen in its latest season, some players are finding that their competitive rankings are, well, decaying. They’ve taken to Twitter, Reddit, and the Blizzard forums to complain about what appear to be drastic drops...
Diablo IV Will Release Story Updates Every Three Months
12.4.2023
Blizzard has recently expanded on the kinds of updates that Diablo IV fans can expect to see after launch. The developers say they are adding story content to the base game every three months. Diablo IV will also have a battle pass some time after the game is released.Read more
Overwatch 2 Trolls Are Using Lifeweaver To Pull Teammates To Their Death
5.4.2023
Overwatch 2’s new support hero Lifeweaver isn’t even in the game for most people yet, and he’s already causing a stir within the community for his potential to be a troll character.Read more
Diablo IV’s Open Beta Stats Reveal The Two Most Played Classes
31.3.2023
Now that Diablo IV’s beta is over, Blizzard has shared some interesting stats about the loot-grinding RPG and the way folks played it. Some of it is expected, like the fact that The Butcher killed over one million people while Ashava the Pestilent murked some 10 million others. But alongside...
Blizzard Warns Diablo IV Open Beta Will Also Be A Mess At First
23.3.2023
Ahead of tomorrow’s Diablo IV open beta, Blizzard warns that—as was the case last weekend—players will likely suffer from long waits and other server issues as even more folks than last weekend all queue up to try to play the super-hyped sequel.Read more
Diablo IV: Blizz Explains Lack Of Couch Co-Op On PC
22.3.2023
Gamers have finally had a chance to test drive the highly anticipated next entry in Blizzard’s action RPG series, Diablo IV. While the game offers up some contentious changes and sees balance concerns that will be debated furiously in the days to come, first impressions reveal a game that’s perfect...
Diablo IV Classes Won't Always Feel Balanced, Blizzard Says
21.3.2023
Although Diablo IV’s early access beta wrapped up on March 20, another one will run from March 24 through 26. This window gives you access to all five classes, two of which—the Druid and Necromancer—were initially unavailable. While none have anything in common, other than their propensity to kill...
Blizzard Bans 120,000 World Of Warcraft Classic Death Knights
17.3.2023
Blizzard brought down the banhammer on “almost 120,000” World of Warcraft Classic accounts after discovering players were creating bots to exploit the Death Knight class to farm resources in the Wrath of the Lich King Classic expansion that launched in September.Read more
Overwatch 2 Fixes Cow Balloon, Game Is Good Again
8.3.2023
When Overwatch 2 launched in October, it brought several changes to Blizzard’s hero shooter. With character reworks, a new 5v5 structure, and an extremely controversial storefront, the sequel was essentially a refresh of just about every aspect of the original. There’s a debate to be had about...
Activision Blizzard Is Forcing Workers Back To The Office
15.2.2023
While the worst of the pandemic is clearly over, a few years of getting people to work from home has shown that a lot of folks are happier, and even work better, if they get to do it where they live. So decisions to force employees back into the office are understandably going to be met with...
Bobby Kotick Is Stoking Chinese Fear To Champion The Microsoft Acquisition
8.2.2023
In order to ease UK regulators’ reluctance to approve the Microsoft acquisition, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick went on CNBC to make a case for the merger. His comments about the UK becoming “Death Valley” if the merger was not approved have earned him well-deserved ridicule. But maybe...
Diablo Immortal Is Getting More Expensive For Hoarders
7.2.2023
Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s free-to-play mobile dungeon crawler, has garnered accusations of being a greedy, money-sucking ARPG ever since launch. You’d think the company would want to avoid worsening that perception, but here we are with Blizzard announcing that the long-requested increase...
Activision Did Nothing Wrong, Will Pay $35 Million Settlement
3.2.2023
Activision Blizzard will pay the Securities Exchange Commission $35 million to settle charges that it violated workplace misconduct reporting rules and whistleblower protections. The Call of Duty publisher admits no wrongdoing in the case, which comes less than two years after a bombshell lawsuit...
Overwatch 2 Will Start Banning People Who Team Up With Cheaters
3.2.2023
Blizzard announced in a February 1 update blog that it’s taking a new, more aggressive approach to Overwatch 2 cheating. The developer will no longer ban just cheaters themselves—though it boasts already wiping out “over 50,000 accounts that we found to be cheating since the launch of Overwatch...
Activision Blizzard Exec Has The Most Unhinged Last Of Us TV Show Take Yet
31.1.2023
The Last of Us inspired no shortage of takes when it first released back in 2013. The HBO TV adaptation has been no different. Like a massive EpiPen of stimulus for the take economy in middle of winter, it has elicited both over-the-top praise, scornful dismissals, and everything in-between....
Overwatch 2's ‘Sexual Harassment Simulator’ Mode Made A Brief Return
24.1.2023
Trigger warning: sexual assault and harassment.Read more
Blizzard Boston Devs Blame Boss For Torpedoing Union
24.1.2023
Workers at Proletariat Studio, also known as Blizzard Boston, won’t be unionizing after all. The Communications Workers of America Union announced on Tuesday that it will pull its petition for a union election, and blames Proletariat CEO Seth Sivak for treating workers’ organizing efforts as...
Blizzard's 'Workplace Ranking' For Employees Sounds Like Hell
24.1.2023
A story ran on Bloomberg earlier today with the headline “Blizzard Manager Departs In Protest of Employee Ranking System”. It sounds very businessy, maybe something that would land on the Linkedin news feed of a HR manager, but the stuff it’s describing is important because it sounds absolutely...
The 12 Best Games For Android
13.1.2023
Android: not just another word for “robot.” It’s also a good option for anyone who wants a mobile device unshackled by the closed operating systems used by certain other smartphone manufacturers. Or, most importantly for our purposes, a library of games that’s nearly bottomless.Read more