Blizzard is finally bringing back 6v6 format from the original game to Overwatch 2 soon. However, the studio will gauge player interest to see if it's worth keeping.
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Blizzard may be incubating its third attempt at a StarCraft shooter, according to Jason Schreier. Previous titles were canceled after years of development as the game struggled to find its vision.
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Microsoft and Blizzard are bringing Overwatch 2 to Xbox Game Pass. The free-to-play entry will offer a myriad of bonuses for playing with a subscription.
A LinkedIn profile of a Blizzard employee that has since been closed claims that Diablo IV has generated over $1 billion in revenue since its launch in June 2023.
Microsoft has reportedly formed a new team at Blizzard Entertainment, made partly of former King team members, that will develop smaller AA games that will be based on existing Blizzard IP titles.
The World of Warcraft development team at Blizzard Entertainment has voted to be unionized under the Communications Workers of America, joining Bethesda Game Studios team members last week.
The Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming service is adding several games this week. That includes the hit MMO World of Warcraft, along with its Classic version. It also announced the list of games in June.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it will not be holding its in-person fan event BlizzCon in 2024. The developer did say it will hold the event at some point in the future.
Blizzard Entertainment is now hiring for a number of positions for a new but currently unannounced game, a few months after its survival game was canceled after several years of development.
Blizzard Entertainment games are coming back to mainland China. Following the 2022 breakup, Microsoft and NetEase have entered a new agreement to bring back both old and new titles to the country.
Blizzard has revealed the full change notes it plans to add to Overwatch 2 when Season 9 of the team-based multiplayer shooter begins on Feb. 12. It will include a new higher Champion rank and more.
Blizzard has named Johanna Faries as its new president, just a few days after over 1,900 team members at Microsoft Gaming were laid off and Blizzard canceled its unnamed survival game.
A few days ago, an unnamed survival game in development at Blizzard got canceled. This is not the first time this has happened. Blizzard canned an adventure game, a third-person shooter, and an MMO.
As part of the large number of layoffs that were made today in Microsoft's gaming division, Blizzard will not be moving forward with its unnamed new survival-based game that was revealed in 2022.
Blizzard has revealed the first details for its Season 3 update coming Jan. 23, called Season of the Construct. It will include a new quest, new dungeons, and even a new NPC companion, the Seneschal.
Blizzard has revealed its 2024 roadmaps for both its main World of Warcraft MMO and the Classic version. They include when their next expansions will launch and its 20th anniversary event.
Blizzard is letting people play their action-RPG Diablo IV for free on Steam through November 28. You can play the game up through level 20, and if you like it there's also a 40 percent discount.
Blizzard's Holly Longdale stated in a new interview that when it comes to bringing World of Warcraft to Xbox consoles, "We talk about it all the time". However, there are no concrete plans right now.
Blizzard announced an ambitious effort to expand its long-running MMO World of Warcraft with a storyline, The Worldsoul Saga, that will span three expansions, starting with The War Within in 2024.
Blizzard has just announced Vessel of Hatred, the first paid expansion pack for its action-RPG, Diablo IV. It will launch in late 2024 and will include a new location, a new player class and more.
Blizzard is holding BlizzCon 2023 starting Friday, Nov. 3 by live-streaming its opening ceremony at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Eastern time), with new games and expansions expected to be revealed.
Blizzard is promoting Diablo IV: Season of Blood by both promoting the donation of blood by players to get rewards, as well as a sweepstakes where a gaming PC with real human blood is the prize.
The Xbox Series X-Diablo IV bundle is priced at just $489.99 at Amazon or $80 off its normal price tag. You can also get the Diablo IV game for a big discount off its normal price on most platforms.
Blizzard announced that the start of the Season of Blood content update for Diablo IV got delayed for a few hours, but the new season is now live. However, there's no PC-console crossplay right now.
Microsoft is running a new sweepstakes where one person will win a custom Xbox Series X console that is put in a display case with lots of surrounding creatures inspired by Diablo IV.
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will leave the company sometime before the end of 2023, following today's announcement that Microsoft has officially acquired the game publisher.
Following Overwatch 2, Blizzard is now bringing its hit ARPG experience Diablo IV to Steam over from its Battle.net platform. This launch will happen alongside the release of the game's second season.
This will be the first time Blizzard games on the PC will be available on a multiplayer platform outside of its in-house Battle.net service. Overwatch 2 will support Steam achievements and more.
Blizzard's first season of content for Diablo IV will include the new Malignant Tunnels dungeons, new monsters, a new boss battle with Varshan the Consumed, and Malignant Hearts bonuses.
Blizzard has released the biggest single client patch for Diablo IV since the game launched earlier this month. It includes a large number of bug fixes, along with some game balance changes.
Blizzard has confirmed that it plans to add support for Microsoft's DirectStorage feature, saying it is "planning on enabling it in the future." It may turn out to be the second game to support it.
The DDoS attack on the Diablo IV servers affected latency and connections for players of Blizzard's popular action-RPG game along with the company's other online games, but it has now been dealt with.
The sales numbers for Blizzard's action-RPG sequel are for its first five days on sale following its official June 6 launch date. It remains the fastest selling Blizzard game in history
The Diablo IV servers were not working for many players of the hit action-RPG game. Developer Blizzard Entertainment has now fixed the server problems so that players can sign in again.
With the action-RPG sequel now officially on sale, Blizzard Entertainment says that Diablo IV early access gamers have already played a total of 93 million hours in the game so far.
Blizzard has released a second PC-only patch for Diablo IV, along with some server-based hotfixes. Players of the game can look forward to at least two expansions of the action RPG.
The first major patch for Blizzard's action-RPG sequel is now out for all platforms, and it contains so many balance changes to Diablo IV's classes that the developer felt the need to explain them.
There's an issue currently with some PlayStation Diablo IV players who cannot sign into the game. Some gamers have found a workaround, but the bad news is that it costs them money.
You can check out Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I from author David L. Craddock about Blizzard's first Diablo game for only 99 cents on Amazon for a limited time, or free with Kindle Unlimited.
The free digital code for Diablo IV will include some special in-game items and the upcoming "Server Slam" for the game will support NVIDIA DLSS 3 for better frame rates starting May 12.
