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The first day of BlizzCon 2023 has been packed with new reveals. While the Warcraft franchise is expected to get most of the attention, Blizzard has teased us with the announcement of Diablo 4's first expansion, titled Vessel of Hatred. The expansion is scheduled for a late 2024 release, in line with Diablo franchise boss Rod Fergusson's statement earlier this [...]
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NetEase and Blizzard’s feud has gone beyond destroying statues and personal attacks between its executives as the former takes the latter to court in China, suing Blizzard Entertainment for violating their licensing agreements. In a Shanghai court, NetEase is seeking a whopping $43 million in compensation for prepayments, unsold inventory, and consumer refunds related to Blizzard's now-defunct MMOs. They're also [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment will be suspending nearly all of their game services in China after failing to negotiate a new licensing deal with their Chinese publisher NetEase. The partnership between the two companies will officially be coming to an end in January 2023 and unless Blizzard can broker a new deal by that time or find a new publishing partner in [...]
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Activision Blizzard revealed that multiple mobile titles are currently in the works during their Q4 2020 investor call. Following the success of Call of Duty’s business model, the company says that they’re now looking to apply the same strategy to their other IP’s. Aside from Diablo Immortal, Activision Blizzard also revealed that several free-to-play Warcraft mobile spin-offs are now in [...]
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Blizzard has revealed the latest playable character for Heroes of the Storm. Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred from the Diablo universe is making his way into Blizzard's fast paced MOBA. The new character, along with an update to the Hanamura Temple map, were announced at Gamescom which is taking place from August 21-25 in Cologne, . Mephisto s his brother [...]
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Just today, Hearthstone has revealed many of its new cards for the Witchwood expansion, which is launching later this month on April 12th. The fairytale-themed addition will be bringing a slew of Worgens and magical beasts out from the shadows, and introduces new "Echo" and "Rush" mechanics into the game. While some players have complained that the current meta [...]
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In a recently released tweet, Overwatch announced the return of its exceedingly popular Uprising event, with a short teaser trailer showcasing a little of what's in store for the next chapter of the Overwatch lore. Accessing file 0382… 📂 Overwatch King’s Row Uprising mission returns April 10! pic.twitter.com/K6cAgHqC4x — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) March 30, 2018 Last year's Uprising event brought Insurrection, [...]
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Heroes of the Storm has managed to find it within their budget to hire two new characters! Probably promised with riches and fortune, Junkrat is coming to the Nexus sometime later this year! Ana Amari will be ing as well, though I'm not sure what they promised her...probably a spiel on how she is needed to save the world. Junkrat [...]
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Blizzard is evidently quite tired of being behind Riot Games in the eSports spotlight - and with good reason, Starcraft is one of the games that is considered the "Grandaddy of Esports." So it's no big surprise that Blizzard has announced its new, "state-of-the-art" esports Arena, and has reiterated its focus on ing esports, and you can already purchase tickets [...]
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What is dead may never die, and the Archlich of Naxxramas Kel'thuzad has once again been resurrected to enter the fray of battle in Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard's eternally frosty fiend will be armed as a Ranged Assassin, whose main role is to deal massive spell damage as well as icy debuffs to slow the enemy. The Lich King's [...]
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