Diablo: Immortal is on target for global release this year
As part of today’s Activision Blizzard earnings announcement, the company revealed that Diablo: Immortal is on track for a global release later in 2021....
Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty drives 27% Q1 2020 revenue growth to $2.28 billion
Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street’s expectations with 27% revenue growth to $2.28 billion for the first quarter ended March 31....
Bobby Kotick reflects on 3 decades running one of gaming’s giants
With 30 years of experience, Bobby Kotick has the longest record of any CEO of a major video game company. His company, Activision Blizzard,...
GamesBeat Summit speakers: Laura Miele, Robert Antokol, Aaron Loeb, Geoff Keighley, and Jennifer Oneal
GamesBeat Summit 2021: Growing the Next Generation will feature a full slate of visionary speakers in an online-only event on April 28 and April...
Hearthstone is a platform now. What does that mean?
Hearthstone made a number of interesting announcements during last month’s BlizzCon Online: a new expansion (Forged in the Barrens), a new mode (Mercenaries), and...
Hearthstone’s next expansion is Forged in the Barrens
Hearthstone’s next expansion is Forged in the Barrens (literally, that’s its name). It ushers in a new Standard rotation — the Year of the...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands review — A modern feel for a venerated MMORPG
Shadowlands, World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, takes the muddled mess that the previous Battle for Azeroth expansion became and sorts it into a beautiful,...
Ex-Blizzard dev Chris Metzen unveils Warchief Gaming tabletop game company
Chris Metzen was the primary visionary at Blizzard Entertainment on games such as Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch. But toiling on games took a...
In World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, new game tech and old code are at war
Game director Ion Hazzikostas faces a rough challenge for this fall’s World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion. Blizzard Entertainment must make a (sometimes poorly) aging...
Not E3: When to expect Sony’s and Microsoft’s next big summer events
I’ve worked from home for years. Now, the whole world is learning something that I’ve known for a while. When your office is your...