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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1923472 UPDATE 3: Sony explains why it wants the merger blocked: they don’t trust Bethesda. and UPDATE 2: Turns out the FTC is also blocking the merger now. https://www.ign.com/articles/ftc-xbox-playstation-activision-blizzard-cma-merger-analysis...

I have $80 in blizzard funds I don't have anything I want to spend it on so I'd rather have steam $$. I can gift stuff from blizzard launcher. I'd prefer the deluxe edition and can supplement extra money via digital payments to make it an even trade. or standard edition for same amt works too...

Following up with their collaborative release of the original Diablo, Blizzard and GOG release the original WarCraft and WarCraft II in a bundle now available. I did not see any mention of Beyond the Dark Portal, the expansion set for WarCraft II. Given that this expansion was outsourced like...

i got a $50 steam card for bday but would much rather have a blizzard GC. cred in sig.

Yesterday, Activision-Blizzard confirmed previous layoff rumors, and warned investors not to expect "a major front-line release for Blizzard in 2019." But, even though the company is losing about 8% of their workforce, some snippets VentureBeat spotted in the report suggest that Blizzard are...

A sharp-eyed user on ResetEra noticed that Sebastian Stepien, creative director at CD Projekt Red, has seemingly left the Polish developer and joined Blizzard Entertainment this month. According to his LinkedIn profile, Stepien started working as dialogue writer at CD Projekt Red in 2006, before...

Just a few days after Activision lost their CFO to Netflix, gamesindustry.biz reports that Square Inc. poached Amrita Ahuja from Blizzard Entertainment. Amrita reportedly worked at Blizzard for 8 years, and Square's CEO gave some typical corporate praise to their new CFO, calling Ahuja an...

Activision-Blizzard's stock hasn't been performing particularly well, even when compared to the overall market slump late last year. Right now, it's sitting at about 43 dollars a share, compared to 83 in late September. So, one might think that the firing of Activision's CFO, Spencer Neumann...

These last two months have been pretty hard on stock market in general, but Activision-Blizzard seems to be faring worse than everyone else. Their stock price has plummeted from a high of about $83.3 in October to about $53 right now. For a company as large as Activision-Blizzard, that's bad...

Blizzard has lowered the banhammer on third party data-tracking tools in the esports game Overwatch. These tools supposedly only allowed users to see extra statistics, but Blizzard stated otherwise in a forum post. "To provide more clarity, any third-party application that impedes on the...

Brandy Camel, an Associate Community Manage for Blizzard, has released a short YouTube video about the future of Diablo. In the video she mentions the forges of Blizzard are burning hot and they have multiple Diablo projects in the works. She also says some will take longer than others...

soooo I dont want a xbox live sub. never have, probably never will. I want to play destiny 2 and so my gf got me destiny 2.... but for xbox one. I have the xbox version shrink wrapped brand new and will ship it free to cont.US in exchange for the blizzard activated PC version. cred in sig. if...

Esports must be getting pretty good if ESPN and Disney are interested in it. They along with Blizzard announced an exclusive broadcasting deal for the Overwatch League that kicked off on both cable networks last night. With that said, I've tried watching some esports and I couldn't really get...

Blizzard has announced that from February 16th to 19th Overwatch will be free to play on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. All 26 heroes and 16 maps will be available to plat, in all modes. Players will also have the ability to level up and earn loot boxes, and if you decide to buy the game any progress...

In a developer update video posted yesterday, Blizzard gave a behind the scenes look at the progress on toxicity in the game, as well as how they balance heroes, and balance updates. One thing that stands out is director Jeff Kaplan announced they are actively searching YouTube and other social...

In an announcement today, Blizzard is changing the way Ranked battle play works in Hearthstone. One of the changes is all ranks now having 5 stars to progress. One of the larger changes, at the end of the season, you will drop exactly 4 ranks. This is to prevent high skill players from having...

Most online games these days have more than their fair share of idiots that want to do nothing but harass and irritate people just because they can. Blizzard wants to slow some of this down in Overwatch and are going to introduce a new feature that will let you know in-game if your report...

Blizzard has announced that on November 14th StarCraft II is going to free-to-play. The original campaign "Wings of Liberty" as well as every Co-op commander and the ranked multiplayer ladder will be available for free. If you already own Wings of Liberty, you’ll receive the second installment...

World of Warcraft is the game no one wants to admit they still play, but I know there are still some fanbois at this site that are interested in the next expansion. Wait no more because Blizzard released the expansion intro for Battle of Azeroth today at BlizzCon. Watch the video here.

HP and Intel are teaming up to sponsor Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League, the official esports league based on its popular shooter with 35 million monthly active players. With a player base that large, and growing, it makes perfect sense for HP and Intel to lend their support to...

Hundreds of players of Destiny 2 for PC are reportedly getting banned for no reason, some just after launching the game and before they could create a character. Most reports are assuming that the bans are coming from the use of applications that use a hook / overlay feature, such as Twitch...

Last September, Blizzard decided to rebrand Battle.net as just the all encompassing "Blizzard" for all its services. Well now, the company has renege on the plan and is renaming it to just Blizzard Battle.net. Hopefully, this helps with the "occasional confusion and ineficiencies" some users...

So after launching some cool merch at the SDCC, Blizzard store is shut for 10 days! Yes, really! I mean why do you do this? In the meantime I have been looking at my reddit feed for something cool that is Overwatch related so that I can give it to my friend - who also happens to be the...

In what took only a matter of 5 hours, Blizzard quickly brought down the hammer on a WoW fan-made private server. Trying to recreate what the World of Warcraft servers were like during the Burning Crusade expansion, many fans were anticipating the launch. Blizzard lawyers delivered a...

Blizzard released some details for its newly founded eSports organization for Overwatch. The company will guarantee a salary at a minimum of $50,000 per a year for its professional players on each Overwatch League teams. So far, the eSports league will feature a team based in seven different...

In a forum post today, Overwatch community manager Lylirra announces improvements to the reporting and penalty system. Effective immediately they will be "we will be issuing increased penalties to players in response to verified reports of bad behavior." This is a great step. Having played and...

In their quarterly earnings report for Q1 2017 yesterday evening, Activision-Blizzard announced a record quarter with $1.7B in revenues. A large part of this success has been credited towards Overwatch which has generated more than $1B in revenues and attracted over 30 million registered...