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Alan Velasco - Thu, Jul 03, 2025
Microsoft’s Xbox division is currently going through a rough patch, where even the future of its gaming chief Phil Spencer is in question. The company is making cuts in personnel across its gaming division and outright shutting down some...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 23, 2025
Some boss battles are just too daunting, which the Federal Trade Commission has discovered in its ongoing effort to defeat Microsoft's $69 billion takeover of Activision-Blizzard. Or more accurately, it was ongoing. In what can be likened...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Jan 30, 2025
The Overwatch franchise has been a mainstay in the hero shooter genre, though it has slowly lost a significant portion of its player base and hasn't returned to prominence with Overwatch 2, in part because of some poor management. The...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Jul 25, 2024
The World of Warcraft development team has announced it has formed a wall-to-wall union called the World of Warcraft Gamemakers Guild, which will be part of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union consists of 500 staff...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Apr 11, 2024
Blizzard Entertainment titles are making their way back into the Chinese market this summer thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft Gaming and NetEase. It took a little over a year for this deal to come together but, World of...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Feb 15, 2024
The latest Diablo IV microtransaction, the Vitreous Scourge mount, costs a whopping $64.99, which is currently more expensive than the base game itself. This latest bit of post-launch game content is part of a long string of...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Nov 08, 2023
Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says that gamers lack patience and have unrealistic expections when it comes to new content. However, while Ybarra says he is unsure how things will change for the company following Microsoft's acquisition...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 23, 2023
Back in the old days, it wasn't uncommon to bestow a drop of blood (or more) inside a gaming PC as a sort of accidental sacrifice—many of those beige towers from yesteryear had sharp edges on their metal panels and it was easy to gash your...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Oct 19, 2023
The acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has been an item of interest for gamers everywhere. Government regulators have taken a keen interest too, resulting in delays. Microsoft is a dominant force in both the PC world and the...
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Tim Sweezy - Sun, Aug 13, 2023
Blizzard is putting teeth behind its warning against cheating in Diablo IV, and thousands of players have since been banned. One of the better-known examples of players cheating involves an exploit called the "Seasonal Exploit," which...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Jun 28, 2023
Blizzard has released a patch for its highly-popular Diablo IV game that delivers buffs for all five classes and fixes a plethora of issues across PC, Xbox, and PS5. The game developer said it will continue to monitor class performance and...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jun 23, 2023
Diablo III, originally released in 2012, was a huge departure from the previous two games in terms of visual style. Despite the dark and gothic tone of the first two games, Diablo III had a simpler, less-detailed, and almost cartoonish...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Jun 23, 2023
Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision-Blizzard-King reaches a new height of drama as the deal faces the scrutiny of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in court. The first day of the hearing was filled with a jaw-dropping email and...
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Aaron Klotz - Tue, Jun 13, 2023
Overwatch 2 Season 5 is turning out to be one of the most jam-packed game updates so far in the game’s second iteration. Season 5 packs in a ton of added content, including the addition of two new game modes, a new role-playing campaign...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 13, 2023
Even though it's barely been out a week, Diablo IV is already one hell of a success. In fact, four days of early access was all it took for the latest installment in the popular franchise to become Blizzard's fastest-selling game of all...
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Ryan Whitwam - Fri, Jun 09, 2023
Blizzard released Diablo IV earlier this month in early access, giving owners of the enhanced and ultimate editions of the game a chance to explore Sanctuary a few days before the standard edition plebs. Now, Blizzard has flung the doors...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 25, 2023
The developers at Blizzard are putting the finishing touches on Diablo IV before the game makes its much-anticipated release in a few weeks. Blizzard has shared finalized specifications for playing on PC as the release date quickly...
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Ryan Whitwam - Fri, Apr 21, 2023
Blizzard gave anxious gamers two chances to try Diablo IV a few weeks back, but the preview and beta weekends didn't quite give developers everything they wanted. So, anyone who missed those tests or just didn't get their fill of...
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Aaron Klotz - Thu, Apr 13, 2023
Overwatch 2 Season 4 introduced a new ranking system to the game — on top of the controversial hero Lifeweaver — that would no longer cause seasonal rank resets and rank decay. However, due to miscommunication between the community and the...
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Aaron Klotz - Thu, Apr 06, 2023
Lifeweaver is a new support hero coming to Overwatch 2, that promises to add new and diverse strategic gameplay to the game with his unique repositioning abilities. However, the hero has come under fire due to his trolling potential with...
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Ryan Whitwam - Fri, Mar 24, 2023
Got plans this weekend? If you intend to spend time playing the Diablo IV open beta, you might want to come up with a backup. Blizzard says you can expect "unprecedented" queue times thanks to all the other gamers who want to experience...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 20, 2023
Blizzard is hacking and slashing its way through a handful of bugs uncovered during the Diablo IV early access beta testing that ran throughout the weekend, in hopes that the upcoming open beta will go a little more smoothly. Some of the...
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