How to design for esports in titles like Counter-Strike and Project Cars
One thing that some of the biggest games in esports share in common is that they don’t change that much. Sure, they have updates...
Nielsen: Overwatch fans are younger than other esports followers
Out of all Overwatch esports fans, 68 percent of them are in the age 18 to 34 millennial demographic, according to the 2016 Nielsen Esports Report and Nielsen Video Game Tracking. This is higher than the average for other competitive games, which is at 61 percent.
Hearthstone hands-on with Mean Streets of Gadgetzan: Classes change forever
We’ve played a priest with near-unlimited fireballs and a druid with frost shock. The new Hearthstone cards coming this year will change the way...
Every skin revealed for Overwatch’s new character, Sombra
The newest addition to Overwatch’s roster is now available in the testing version of the team-based shooter. This means that anyone who updates the separate client for Overwatch can try out the hacker Sombra, whom Blizzard announced at its BlizzCon event on October 4.
BlizzCon: Everything Blizzard announced today
BlizzCon is underway in Anaheim, California, and publisher Blizzard Entertainment used its annual massive fan event to make several big announcements. But don’t go...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s future patches bring flying, invasions, and more bosses
Blizzard has plenty of updates coming to World of Warcraft. The publisher detailed upcoming patches coming to Legion, the latest (and according to GamesBeat, the best)...
Google’s DeepMind A.I. takes on something even more complicated than chess or go: StarCraft II
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...
Hearthstone’s tri-class cards will change the card game forever
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...
Diablo III’s upcoming updates will re-create the original game and add the Necromancer class
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...
Hearthstone’s new expansion is Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, coming ‘early December’
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.