Hold on to your decks: Dramatic ‘Hearthstone’ competitive changes still to come
Last fall, Blizzard Entertainment announced the beginning of open qualification tournaments for its popular digital card game. No longer is grinding up to Legend...
Blizzard is right to focus on Overwatch 2 and not a StarCraft shooter
Blizzard has canceled a StarCraft first-person shooter, according to a report for Kotaku. I’m happy about this. Look, as much as I love Blizzard,...
Mike Morhaime, cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, to be honored at Gamelab Barcelona
Mike Morhaime, the cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, will receive the 2019 Honor Award at the Gamelab Barcelona event in Spain. He will get the...
Hearthstone: Rise of the Mech event adds a free Legendary, buffs 18 cards, and ushers in Arena rotation
Blizzard Entertainment isn’t taking you to the beach this summer — instead, you’re going to the hot, sweaty, and loud secret lab of Dr....
Hearthstone’s Year of the Dragon: Genn and Baku in Hall of Fame, better adventures, and year-long story
The Year of the Dragon kicks off in April for Hearthstone, Blizzard Entertainment’s mammoth digital card game. It’s the top dog in the market,...
Kabam founder Kevin Chou believes blockchain will revolutionize game economics
Kevin Chou, who led Kabam in mobile games and Gen.G in esports, announced last week that he has created a blockchain gaming company called...
Blizzard is working on several Warcraft and Diablo games despite layoffs
Activision Blizzard revealed today it is cutting jobs as part of its plan to deal with a disappointing outlook for fiscal 2019. One of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 sales strong, but Activision expected more
Activision Blizzard said that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 had a strong quarter, outdoing sales of the previous Call of Duty: Black Ops...
DeepMind’s AlphaStar AI sweeps StarCraft II pros in head-to-head match
Computers are getting more sophisticated than ever at understanding and playing complicated games. DeepMind, one of the leaders in artificial intelligence, proved that once...
Ben Brode’s Second Dinner orders a Marvel license and $30 million from NetEase
We now know what former Hearthstone bigwigs Ben Brode and Hamilton Chu are feasting on for their Second Dinner — $30 million from NetEase...