Blizzard Entertainment Archives

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Google’s DeepMind A.I. takes on something even more complicated than chess or go: StarCraft II

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 4, 2016
2 min

Google and Blizzard are opening up StarCraft II to anyone who wants to teach artificial intelligence systems how to conduct warfare, because apparently I’m...

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2 min

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Hearthstone’s tri-class cards will change the card game forever

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
3 min

Players expected Blizzard to announce a new expansion for its digital-card-game-market leader Hearthstone. They didn’t think it would introduce a new card type that completely...

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3 min

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Diablo III’s upcoming updates will re-create the original game and add the Necromancer class

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
1 min

Blizzard didn’t announce an expansion, but Diablo III is getting plenty of new content in the future. The publisher announced during its massive BlizzCon...

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1 min

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Hearthstone’s new expansion is Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, coming ‘early December’

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
2 min

Be careful out there! Blizzard revealed the latest expansion for its digital card game market leader Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft during its BlizzCon event in Anaheim, California, today. bringing back lapsed players.

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2 min

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Heroes of the Storm adds Alliance king Varian Wyrnn and Ragnaros the Fire Lord

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
1 min

Death isn’t the end of a beloved Blizzard character. The developer announced today during the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon in Anaheim, California, that Varian Wyrnn...

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1 min

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Blizzard’s Overwatch League looks a lot like an actual sport

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
1 min

Is this boring NFL season getting you down? Well, we have some more modern competition to look forward to soon. Blizzard today announced the...

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1 min

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Sombra comes to Overwatch test servers next week along with arcade mode

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 4, 2016
1 min

Blizzard Entertainment has teased the hidden character Sombra since launching the game in May, and now we know who it is. Sombra is a...

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1 min

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Hearthstone’s World Championship: What we can learn from the best players’ decks

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
7 min

On November 4 and November 5, eight of the best Hearthstone players in the world compete at BlizzCon in Anaheim for a $1 million prize pool in the Hearthstone World Championship. With stakes this high, those competitors better bring their best decks.

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7 min

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Blizzard experiments with 5-player raids for World of Warcraft

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 26, 2016
6 min

Today marks the beginning of a new experiment for Blizzard Entertainment in their massively multiplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: five-player raiding. Warcraft dungeons have...

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6 min

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Hearthstone’s Heroic Tavern Brawl ditches wacky rules for competitive play and insane rewards (update)

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 17, 2016
2 min

Hearthstone is giving its 40 million registered players some big incentives to compete this week. Blizzard has announced this week’s Tavern Brawl, which are...

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2 min