Game boss interview: Rob Pardo says playtesting is critical to game design
Rob Pardo developed his relentless focus on excellent game design when he was at Blizzard Entertainment, making games, such as StarCraft, Warcraft III, and...
Hearthstone boss Ben Brode gives me new insight on what ‘casual’ means
Hearthstone doesn’t give players a great place to goof around. The Ranked modes for Standard and Wild, Hearthstone’s two main formats, are filled with...
Overwatch’s Halloween Terror event returns October 10 with new content
It’s that spooky time of year, and here’s something you may find horrifying: Blizzard is pulling out last year’s Overwatch Halloween event again. On...
Magic: The Gathering — Arena is Wizards of the Coast’s answer to Hearthstone
Magic: The Gathering fans have watched as first Hearthstone, then Hex, then Shadowverse, then Eternal, then The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and then Gwent all...
Blizzard gives Hearthstone the silly animated short it deserves
Hearthstone has been one of Blizzard‘s biggest games since it launched in 2014. The digital card battler for PC and mobile helped to popularize...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is gobbling up Overwatch’s audience
The shooter audience on PC looks like it is in the middle of a migration from last year’s big hit to this year’s breakout...
Tespa and Blizzard serve up $1 million for college esports scholarships
While esports has spent much of 2017 building and formalizing infrastructure, Tespa has been around since 2013 as a network of collegiate-level esports clubs and...
Blizzard brings back Battle.net branding
Battle.net is back. Sure, it never really went anywhere after Blizzard announced its plans to shift to the “Blizzard app” branding. Fans and even...
PC Gaming Weekly: Watch out, Hearthstone — here comes Artifact
Depending on your point of view, Valve’s news this week is either one heckuva tease or a knife in your Half-Life-lovin’ soul. Late Tuesday night, the publisher...
Overwatch deathmatch gameplay: The KDR matters again
Blizzard is going back to the roots of the shooter genre for the latest addition to Overwatch, its team-based hero shooter. The publisher announced...