World of Warcraft cross-faction raiding is on Blizzard’s radar
World of Warcraft‘s upcoming 9.1.5 patch is adding a lot of features that the community has long asked for, like more cosmetic options and...
World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas talks the game’s future and current soul-searching
World of Warcraft is in the middle of extraordinary times. The MMO will be turning 17 years old this month, and while Blizzard prepares...
Hearthstone’s new Mercenaries mode is ideal for solo players
Hearthstone‘s newest mode officially releases today. Mercenaries gives the aging digital card game a needed boost, especially if you’re looking for a way to...
Diablo IV gets a new game director
Blizzard announced today that Joe Shely is the new game director for Diablo IV. The previous director, Luis Barriga, left the company in August,...
World of Warcraft’s team is taking small steps to fix the game’s toxicity
World of Warcraft‘s team has been making some small adjustments to the game, renaming quests and characters that had innuendo-laden names and removing some...
The RetroBeat — Diablo II: Resurrected readies for launch during a dark time at Blizzard
Diablo II: Resurrected is nearing its September 23 release date. For some gamers, it may be hard to muster much excitement. Yes, the original...
Activision Blizzard promises change while dodging employee demands
During today’s investor call, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick promised that change would come to the troubled publisher. However, he and other leaders failed...
J. Allen Brack’s short, tumultuous run in charge of Blizzard is over
Activision Blizzard announced today on its site that J. Allen Brack is no longer president of Blizzard. Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will be...
The RetroBeat: Blizzard’s legacy grows cold
The past couple of weeks have been intense for the industry. The stories coming out of Activision Blizzard and other studios are awful. Above...
Activision Blizzard employees to protest leadership with walkout
Employees at Activision Blizzard are staging a walkout to protest the company leadership’s response to being sued by the California Department of Fair Employment...