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Nielsen: Overwatch fans are younger than other esports followers

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 10, 2016
1 min

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.

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Hearthstone hands-on with Mean Streets of Gadgetzan: Classes change forever

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 10, 2016
5 min

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...

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Every skin revealed for Overwatch’s new character, Sombra

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 7, 2016
2 min

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.

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BlizzCon: Everything Blizzard announced today

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 4, 2016
2 min

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...

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Legion was a big expansion for World of Warcraft.

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World of Warcraft: Legion’s future patches bring flying, invasions, and more bosses

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
3 min

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)...

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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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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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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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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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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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