Activision Blizzard’s Q3 results beat expectations (update)
Activision Blizzard reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, and the company touted the performances of its Destiny 2 launch and its King...
Overwatch League gets big sponsors with HP and Intel
HP and Intel are teaming up to sponsor Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League, the official esports league based on its popular shooter with 35 million monthly...
Cloud9’s Overwatch League team gets a new name and new facilities
The U.K.’s only Overwatch League team now has a name: The London Spitfire. Esports organization Cloud9 owns the squad, which is one of 12...
Overwatch’s new test patch buffs Ana, nerfs Mercy
Mercy’s reign of terror might be coming to an end. Blizzard has pushed a new update to Overwatch’s PTR (public test realm) server, which...
Blizzard is going to make it easier to gift your friends things like Hearthstone packs
Blizzard announced new features coming to its Battle.net game launcher. Notably, you’ll be able to use a new Shop tab to easily buy and...
Hearthstone is celebrating Halloween with a new Arena mode and free card packs
Hearthstone‘s Hallow’s End event (the Warcraft universe’s version of Halloween) is going to be giving players more treats than tricks. Blizzard announced today that it...
Overwatch now has 35 million players for Blizzard’s online team shooter
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that its team-based shooter Overwatch has passed the 35 million players mark. Overwatch launched in May 2016 for PlayStation 4,...
Creating corpses: Making bodies matter in Diablo 3
One of the very first things I said after we’d officially decided to bring the Necromancer back for Diablo III was: “If we’re going...
Diablo 3 brought the Necromancer back from the dead — here’s how
The Necromancer was a childhood favorite of mine. Childhood might not be a fair term; I wasn’t a child when I first played Diablo...
Overwatch’s Ana finally got the great Legendary skin she deserved
Ana was Overwatch‘s first post-release hero. The healer/sniper came out on July 19, 2016, just about a month after the team-based shooter launched on...