John Smedley interview: Amazon wants games with ‘ridiculous computation’
John Smedley has had a storied career in games, including the creation of EverQuest, the growth of Sony Online Entertainment, and the spinout of...
Twitch is making it easier to find the best Hearthstone and Overwatch streams
Blizzard’s Hearthstone and Overwatch are two of the most popular games on Twitch, the No. 1 game-streaming site in the world. Now, fans of...
Overwatch is adding Deathmatch modes
Tired of all that teamwork in Overwatch? Then the new Deathmatch mode might be for you. Most of Overwatch revolves around two teams of...
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne — Blizzard shares insights on The Lower Citadel
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne has a lot of exciting new cards, but it also gives us our first single-player campaign since August...
Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is live
Move over, dinosaurs. Death Knights have come to Hearthstone. The digital card game giant’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is now live on...
The Overwatch League expands from seven to nine teams with new London and L.A. squads
The Overwatch League has grown to nine teams, adding another in Los Angeles and one in London. Last month, Blizzard announced that the first...
StarCraft II is now a laboratory for AI research
Blizzard’s partnership with DeepMind, a firm that specializes in machine learning, has culminated in the release of the StarCraft II API, which is available...
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne — when the expansion and solo quests will launch
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne is introducing 135 new cards, and Blizzard announced today that it will go live on August 10 at...
Overwatch channels Russian hockey meme for Zarya’s newest voice line
Overwatch lets you assign voice taunts to characters that you can activate whenever you want, and for this year’s Summer Games event, the bodybuilding...
Overwatch’s second Summer Games event is now live with swimsuits and dad shirts
Get out the swimsuits and hot dogs, Overwatch‘s Summer Games are back … even if the real summer is ending soon. The second run...