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After this year's much anticipated spotlight release of Starcraft Remastered, Blizzard is looking to give Starcraft 2 a much-needed overhaul as well. According to Blizzard's recent news post, Starcraft 2 will be seeing some major design and balance changes, much of it focused on its current roster of underused abilities and units, as well as reducing the number of sudden [...]
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Today marks the highly anticipated worldwide release of Starcraft Remastered, the retrofitted remake of the original Starcraft. Starcraft Remastered has taken the world by storm, with many fans eager to relive the glory days of the iconic game, however South Korea's "PC Bangs" (the local term for internet cafes) are less than happy with Blizzard Korea's new pricing scheme for [...]
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Earlier this year, Blizzard announced that they would be retiring the Battle.net brand. The company claimed that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." The renamed launcher was titled Blizzard App. The move was met with indifference by new players and derision by old fans. In the end, the [...]
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Blizzard is looking to kill two birds with one stone with their patches for Overwatch and Hearthstone, by implementing changes in the loot systems in both games to reduce the frequency of duplicate items received. In Overwatch's latest developer update, Jeff Kaplan explains that the reduction of duplicates coming to the lootbox system should be "immediately evident and extremely [...]
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Dying to go to BlizzCon 2017 but missed out on the first two ticket sales? Blizzard is giving you another chance to get your hands on BlizzCon tickets. The third batch will go on sale on July 5th at 7PM PT. Blizzard explains why additional tickets will be put on sale: “Until recently, we weren’t sure if the new hall [...]
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Only just recently, Overwatch China had released the data on the probabilities of their lootboxes. This was in accordance with the "lootbox law" that had come into effect on May 1st, 2017 in China, a new law which mandates all game publishers to publicly announce the probabilities on lootboxes and/or items with randomly generated properties. However, Overwatch China seems to [...]
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Back in April, we reported that Blizzard was looking for a Mobile Software Engineer to work on an unannounced project. Today, a new job listing for an FX Artist for "an unannounced project for mobile" appeared and, thanks to one line, the job listing has sparked speculation that the new title is, in fact, a Warcraft game. The line is [...]
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As Destiny 2 PC announced its launch on Battle.net, news travels fast and takes an unexpected turn on the World of Warcraft gold market — the real-world value of the WoW in-game currency has taken a sharp downward turn in light of Destiny 2's latest announcement. Blizzard has only recently allowed players the ability to convert WoW Tokens into [...]
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Overwatch is turning one year older, and everyone is invited to the party. With over $1B in revenue and 30 million ed players around the world, big boy Overwatch is celebrating yet another milestone — its first anniversary coming up on May 24th this week. Blizzard is rolling out the red carpet for its golden goose, and fans can drop [...]
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Blizzard is welcoming another game to the Battle.net family, and the game is none other than this year's highly anticipated first-person shooter Destiny 2. Developed by Bungie but published by Blizzard's sister company Activision, Destiny 2 marks itself as the first non-Blizzard game to release on the Battle.net platform. A recent Blizzard news post details the decision to launch Destiny [...]
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