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Blizzard’s Overwatch is coming to consoles and PC spring 2016

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 6, 2015
1 min

While a full announcement will likely come today during BlizzCon, a splash page (that’s now gone) featuring the image above on Battle.net revealed that Blizzard’s team-based shooter is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next spring. This also confirms that Overwatch is coming to consoles.

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King beats Wall Street estimates for Q3 earnings, but revenues weaken

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 4, 2015
3 min

King, the Candy Crush Saga game publisher which has agreed to be acquired by Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion on Monday night, reported earnings for...

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Hearthstone designer says Blizzard is working on adding more deck slots

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 4, 2015
2 min

You’re a Hearthstone expert, so that means you have a deck for every occasion. But the card battler only enables you to save nine...

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Overwatch first impressions, Part 2: all the defense heroes, all the tanks

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 29, 2015
7 min

Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch, now in closed beta testing, adds an interesting mechanic to first-person team shooters: tanks. More Overwatch impressions All maps, all the...

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Overwatch first impressions: all the maps, all the support, & all the offense

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 28, 2015
9 min

Blizzard’s new first-person 6-on-6 team shooter Overwatch — the storied game company’s first new game franchise in more than 14 years — combines the...

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Heroes of the Storm preview: Feels naive for any team to beat Na’Vi

Posted byby Jason Wilson
October 26, 2015
5 min

Forty of the world’s most frenetic gamers will fight for half a million dollars in the first-ever Heroes of the Storm world championship beginning Wednesday....

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Activision Blizzard creates new esports division on the eve of BlizzCon’s championships

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 22, 2015
2 min

Actvision Blizzard announced this morning that it’s creating a new division focused on its “esports ecosystem.” The new division wasn’t named in the release,...

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R.I.P., Grim Patron: Blizzard pushes out Hearthstone’s Warsong Commander nerf

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 20, 2015
1 min

It finally happened. One of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft’s biggest nerfs ever just went live. Publisher Blizzard updated Hearthstone today to reduce the power of...