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Blizzard Boss Accused Of Failing To Address Sexual Harassment Calls New Allegations 'Troubling'
23.7.2021
The head of Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft, sent an email to staff last night calling the recent allegations of widespread sexual harassment and discrimation “extremely troubling” and promised to meet with them to answer questions and discuss “how we...
Blizzard Harasser From Lawsuit Is Still All Over World of Warcraft, Fans Dismay
22.7.2021
Yesterday, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard over the company’s allegedly pervasive culture of sexual harasment and discrimination.Read more
WoW’s Wrath Of The Lich King Expansion Is Now A Board Game
21.7.2021
Pandemic is a classic board game from publisher Z-Man in which players work together to stop the spread of rampaging viruses. World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion is about stopping the Lich King’s Scourge from rampaging across the continent of Northrend. They’re basically the same...
I'm Waiting For World Of Warcraft's Dark Portal To Open All Over Again
1.6.2021
Fine, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic. I’ll sit with dozens of other players in the Blasted Lands, waiting for the glowing green portal to open at 6 p.m. Eastern time. I will weather this plodding déjà vu but know this: There’s no way in hell I’m leveling a Blood Elf or Draenei...
Blizzard Sends Cease-And-Desists To Diablo II: Resurrected Modders
27.5.2021
Several mods for last month’s Diablo II: Resurrected alpha test were recently pulled offline following a wave of cease-and-desist letters. One creator says Blizzard even went as far as to send a private investigator to his home to serve the warning in person.Read more
World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic Goes Live June 1
6.5.2021
The Dark Portal opens all over again on June 1 with the worldwide launch of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic. Read more
You Can Now Only Buy 60 Days Of Game Time In World Of Warcraft
26.3.2021
Yesterday Blizzard announced they would be removing the 30, 90, and 180-day game time purchase options from World of Warcraft, leaving only the 60-day option. Read more
The WoW Classic Burning Crusade Beta Is Live, If You're Into That Sort Of Thing
24.3.2021
Look I don’t know why folks are excited to replay Blizzard’s first attempt at a World of Warcraft expansion, with its endless walking and “kill x of y” quests, but if you’ve opted-in for the World of Warcraft Classic Burning Crusade beta, now’s your time. Read more
World Of Warcraft's First Player-Voted Mount Is A Big Ol' Tree You Can Get For Free
10.3.2021
Last year Blizzard held a poll to determine what sort of ride World of Warcraft players wanted as a special community mount. We chose the Wandering Ancient, and now that choice has borne fruit, or in this case, a whole damn tree, free now for everyone who owns the Shadowlands expansion. Read more
Report: Chat Logs Reveal Pervasive Racism In Top World of Warcraft Raiding Guilds
25.2.2021
Two raiding guilds in the upper tiers of World of Warcraft’s North American ladder, Clout Gang and Instant Dollars, have come under fire for using racial and homophobic slurs. First reported by PC Gamer, an Imgur album containing screenshots of Clout Gang’s Discord and in-game chats was posted...
Everything Blizzard Announced During BlizzConline's Opening Ceremony
19.2.2021
It sure as heck isn’t BlizzCon, but until we can safely gather together again in the stew of scents and juices that is a convention hall (so maybe never?), BlizzConline will have to do. Blizzard kicked off the online version of its annual convention today with a handful of announcements that...
Diablo II Remaster Coming To All Major Platforms In 2021
19.2.2021
Blizzard kicked off BlizzConline (a portmanteau I whole-heartedly protest) with the announcement everyone has been waiting for: Diablo II and its Lord of Destruction expansion is being remastered for just about every gaming platform on the planet, with a release scheduled for 2021.Read more
The Blizzard Arcade Collection Bundles Three Classics For $20
19.2.2021
Available now for PlayStations, Xboxes, Switch, and PC, the Blizzard Arcade Collection bundles together The Lost Vikings, Rock n’ Roll Racing, and Blackthorne, those early games Blizzard made before the days of Diablo, StarCraft, and World of Warcraft.Read more
Watch The BlizzCon 2021 Keynote Here
19.2.2021
BlizzCon 2021 begins today at 5:00 p.m. ET and according to Blizzard will be about an hour long.Read more
World Of Warcraft Leak Includes Showdown With Sylvanas, Burning Crusade Classic
18.2.2021
A leak surfacing the day before Blizzconline’s opening ceremonies revealed possible details of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands’s first major update.Read more
Friendship Ended with Azeroth, Now Final Fantasy XIV Is My Best Friend
16.2.2021
I’ve done it. I’ve finally begun my journey with Final Fantasy XIV, after six years of aborted attempts I made it through the still strangely unfriendly onboarding process and am now roaming free in the world of Eorzea.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5 Sets The Stage For Endwalker On April 13
8.2.2021
There’s a new Final Fantasy XIV expansion coming later this year, but first we’ve got some loose ends to tie up. The third and final installment of the Nier-themed raid series and the first of a two-part story update leading to this fall’s Endwalker expansion arrives on April 13, alongside the open...
The End Of My Covenant’s Campaign Is A Good Stopping Point For World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands
21.1.2021
After a month and a half of conquering quests, leveling alt characters, and exploring every inch of World of Warcraft’s afterlife, my whirlwind romance with the Shadowlands expansion is starting to fizzle out. Now that my main dwarf Stu has completed his covenant story campaign I’m not finding much...
Auto Chess Is Getting a MOBA, Continuing the Eternal Cycle
18.1.2021
The history of the MOBA genre is one of mods and iteration. Its most popular and still-standing games today are the result of multiple reimaginings and tweaks to skirt copyright issues. Now, there’s one more absurd step to the story: the makers of Auto Chess are making a MOBA. An Auto Chess MOBA...
Jarod Nandin, "The South Park Guy" Cosplayer, Has Died
4.1.2021
Jarod Nandin, a World of Warcraft player and cosplayer best known for his depiction of South Park’s Jenkins, has died of Covid.Read more