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After a contract extension with NetEase failed, Overwatch 2 and other Blizzard titles have been officially taken offline in China. This has left the Overwatch League teams based in China in uncertainty as the game is no longer playable in the country. https://twitter.com/ChengduHunters/status/1617556422912528385 The shutdown of Blizzard games...
Oh dear, it looks like China will be left without a bunch of Blizzard games early next year. Activision Blizzard will suspend World of WarCraft, Overwatch 2, Diablo 3, StarCraft 2, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and WarCraft III: Reforged in China after 23 January 2023. According to an official statement, Activision Blizzard will suspend the ...
Frost Giant Studios is not a game company name you hear too often, but its pedigree is huge. The company is made up of former Blizzard staff who worked on StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3, two of the most influential real-time strategy games in the realm of PC gaming. And now the team is planning to bring the RTS genre back to its glory days with its new...
Happy Labour Day, everyone. To celebrate the mid-holiday and the first of May, let's pay tribute to video games' most under-appreciated workhorses. All of them. WarCraft's Peons & Peasants Before Blizzard made the Warcraft series its MMO cash cow, the franchise used to be a strategy title where humans and orcs fought each other with so...
Update (28/7/2021): Activision Blizzard employees are planning a walkout on Wednesday PT. Blizzard senior software engineer Valentine Powell and the World of Warcraft leadership team paying employees for the time they spend during the protest. "Our leadership on the WoW team has worked with us over the last week to respond and start taking actio...
Heroes of the Storm's CraftWars event is now live, bringing with it new skins, mounts, the next Nexus Anomaly, the latest round of Hero reworks, and more. Players can look forward to more StarCraft and WarCraft content. In CraftWars, King of Blades Arthas rules all the worlds. Anduin has crossed over from being a prince in Warcraft to (also) be...
Remember when Blizzard was working on a StarCraft third-person shooter spinoff titled StarCraft Ghost back in the early 2000s? Around two decades later, an early playable Xbox build of StarCraft Ghost has apparently leaked online. Twitter user Andrew Borman shared screenshots of the leaked build on his account, though he claimed that they were tak...
In late July, the world lost one of the most important figures in StarCraft 2 esports history. Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson passed away due to sudden illness, leaving many family members, friends, and people in the StarCraft 2 community heartbroken. Paying tribute to Geoff's legacy, Blizzard has announced an iNcontroL Commemorative Bundle for StarCra...
The StarCraft franchise has lost its lustre over the years, as developer Blizzard doesn't seem to care much about this legendary RTS series anymore. They have reportedly cancelled a StarCraft first-person shooter title which has been in development for the past two years. According to sources close to the developer (via Kotaku's Jason Schreier), t...
Earlier today, a tweet was sent through Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson's personal Twitter account announcing that the popular and beloved strategy games commentator has passed away due to sudden illness. He was 33 years old. With immense grief, we announce Geoff’s unexpected passing due to sudden illness Saturday. We ask privacy as his family w...
It's not enough that Skynet took over the world, now the machines are turning their attention to the world of gaming. I'm jesting, of course, since the artificial intelligence I'm referring to is actually DeepMind's StarCraft II A.I. agent, AlphaStar. Alphstar is an A.I. developed by DeepMind specifically to play Starcraft II, and it's very good a...
Turns out that not only was Blizzard working on a first-person shooter based in the StarCraft universe for the past two years but was cancelled recently, according to sources at Kotaku. The reason is that the company wanted to put in more resources for the next Diablo and, get this, Overwatch titles. Here's what we know so far: The cancelled Sta...
BlizzCon is one of best gaming conventions with community members from all over the globe spending the weekend full of gaming, esports, cosplay, camaraderie, and the latest Blizzard Entertainment news. BlizzCon 2019, slated to happen at Anaheim, California, features a ton of activities such as in-depth developer panels, esports competitions, and...
Six game titles including DotA 2 and Tekken 7 will be featured in next year's SEA Games, following this week's round of meetings chaired by the Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC) in Manila. This new list brings several major changes from what was shown at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Apparently, football (PES 2018) w...
Update: we added some quotes from casters & esports players regarding these turn of events. In a MOBA market dominated by giants of the genre like Dota 2 and League of Legends, it seems that Heroes of the Storm just couldn't keep its spark going. Blizzard announced earlier today that it will be scaling back on development and esports plans ...
Most Blizzard StarCraft fans take their love of the sci-fi lore -an "homage" to Warhammer 40k if you want to be polite about it- and channel it into different and productive ways. Cosplay, fanfic, even more cosplay; just throw a digital rock at Tumblr and you're bound to see some hot Kerrigan and Jim Raynor slashfic action going on. Gaming geek fa...
Mark your calendars as BlizzCon is returning to Anaheim this November and tickets will be on sale next month. Officially announced earlier today, you can expect awesome stuff from the event as you immerse yourself with everything Blizzard - be it Starcraft II, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone to Overwatch. Like last year, this year’s event wil...
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of StarCraft come March 31st, Blizzard will be giving away a cool Sarah Kerrigan skin for Widowmaker in Overwatch for free, along with a host of other in-game items across all of their titles including Diablo 3 and Heroes of the Storm. But we are guessing you're here for the Sarah Kerrigan skin and how to get ...
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