Blizzard uses a Facebook Messenger chatbot to tease Hearthstone’s future Posted byby Mike Minotti October 25, 2016 2 min Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is doing an awful lot of teasing lately, and now the digital card game leader is using a Facebook Messenger chatbot... Continue Reading 2 min
World of Warcraft: Legion’s biggest patch yet is now live Posted byby Mike Minotti October 25, 2016 1 min The biggest massively multiplayer online game in the market is getting a ton of new content today. World of Warcraft’s 7.1 patch is now... Continue Reading 1 min
GaymerX founder Matt Conn says video games belong to everyone Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 2, 2016 17 min The slogan for GaymerX is “everyone games.” That’s the message that the “queer side of gaming” wants to convey to everybody else who wonders... Continue Reading 17 min
Blizzard beefs up support for Heroes of the Storm’s esports league Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 22, 2016 2 min It’s tough to grow a game into a viable esport, but Blizzard has plans to invest in its online arena battler to accomplish exactly that.... Continue Reading 2 min
Overwatch World Cup’s 16-nation tourney could make Blizzard’s shooter an esports power Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 22, 2016 2 min Blizzard is holding its annual fan gathering in Anaheim in a few months, and among that convention’s many events is the first international World... Continue Reading 2 min
Blizzard is phasing out the ‘Battle.net’ name Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 21, 2016 2 min Battle.net is going away. Don’t worry! Your loot boxes are safe. The technology behind the service is staying, but the name is on the... Continue Reading 2 min
How to play Torbjörn in Overwatch when you have 5 seconds of lag Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 20, 2016 1 min PCs are meant for multitasking, but that’s not always a good idea. For example, you may not want to render HD video while playing an... Continue Reading 1 min
GamesBeat 2016 explores how to make games accessible, the Blizzard way Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 24, 2016 14 min When it comes to making mass market games, few companies succeed like Blizzard Entertainment. The division of Activision Blizzard released its Overwatch first-person shooter... Continue Reading 14 min
How Cliff Bleszinski redeemed himself with his latest shooter, Lawbreakers Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 14, 2016 9 min Cliff Bleszinski feels vindicated. The former game designer at Epic Games felt like he had to leave his old company to make a new... Continue Reading 9 min
25 years of covering games: My views of then and now Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 28, 2016 18 min This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As... Continue Reading 18 min