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BlizzCon 2024 Cancellation Announced
Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that BlizzCon 2024 will not take place this year. The decision, described as difficult but considered over the last year, aims to explore different event formats for future occasions. Special Events and Game Updates The company, celebrating the 30th anniversary of World of Warcraft, plans several…
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Blizzard Says the Alliance and Horde May Soon Raid Together
World of Warcraft sees an entirely predictable rise in popularity again following the relatively recent launch of the ‘Shadowlands’ expansion. However, as is often the case, while people may return to the game to see what’s new, the subscriber count generally tends to drop off as quickly as it rose…
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Diablo 2 Remaster Details Leak
Earlier this year, rumours emerged that despite (apparently) being cancelled after an announcement back in 2019, Blizzard has decided (rather wisely I believe) to re-start production on the Diablo 2 Remaster. I mean, given how absolutely beloved the original game is, a remaster/remake of it surely seemed like practically a…
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Diablo 2 Remastered to be Confirmed at Blizzcon 2021?!
A little over a month ago we heard the news that following prior rumours that Blizzard had cancelled the project, the Diablo 2 Remaster was back in development. Admittedly though, the state of the game has been more than a little unclear since it was initially teased back in 2018…
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Overwatch 2 & Diablo 4 Will Make an Appearance at BlizzCon
Following the absolute PR disaster that was BlizzCon 2018 (of ‘is this some kind of late out of season April Fool’s joke?’ fame), Blizzard improved things significantly last year with the formal confirmation of both Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. – To date, however, despite both games being announced, we…
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Overwatch 2, Diablo IV & WoW Shadowlands Feature at Blizzcon
Blizzcon 2019 is currently underway and given the widely negative reception they received last year, many believed that Blizzard was going to come out swinging big time this year! Blizzcon 2019 So, one day in, how are they doing? Well, quite frankly, they haven’t disappointed. In what may represent the…
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Diablo 4 Leak Suggests Darker and Grittier Tone
With Blizzcon 2019 officially set to kick-off tomorrow, a lot of fans are expecting big things to be announced. It is, after all, hard to forget just how badly Blizzard screwed the pooch last year with the announcement of ‘Diablo “You do have phones, right?” Immortal’ at last years event.…
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Diablo Immortal Trailer Receives Huge Down Votes On YouTube
Diablo Immortal Trailer Receives Huge Down Votes On YouTube When Diablo Immortal was announced at Blizzcon, many people, including myself were very unhappy. I’m not quite as ardently hateful of it as some people, but I think we can all agree that in terms of a ‘big announcement’ Blizzard screwed…
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Mikes Rant – Does Blizzard Hate Their Fans?
Mikes Rant 24 So, the dust is settling over Blizzcon 2018 and I think it’s fairly safe to say that based on the majority of the announcements, fans are not happy. I certainly know that on the whole, I’m not best pleased! That isn’t entirely unusual in most situations, but…
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Blizzard Deny Rumours That Diablo 4 Announcement Was Pulled
Blizzard Deny Rumours That Diablo 4 Announcement Was Pulled After a hugely disappointing Blizzcon 2018, Blizzard is working on more than a little damage control after it’s incredibly unpopular announcement that the new Diablo game (the one they’d been teasing us with for months) was actually going to be a…
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Blizzard Announces ‘Diablo Immortal’ Mobile RPG Game
Diablo Goes Mobile Rumblings of a new Diablo game was abound even way before BlizzCon 2018. However, many fans were shocked to hear that their beloved action RPG game is now going to be for mobile. The announcement of course, quickly shocked and angered some fans who have built up…
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Overwatch’s Latest Hero is a Shotgun Wielding Outlaw
With a Robot Butler Sidekick Blizzard is further expanding the hero roster for Overwatch with the introduction of Ashe. She is a shotgun wielding outlaw and the leader of the Deadlock Gang. The group is of course well-known as the one responsible for hijacking the payload in the Route 66…
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Warcraft III Reforged Remaster Announced for 2019 Release
Beyond Just a Graphics Overhaul Blizzard has announced Warcraft 3: Reforged at Blizzcon 2018. It offers high definition textures and reworked models for the game which came out in July 2002. However, it aims to do more than that. In fact, Blizzard calls it “a complete reimagining”. Especially since it…
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Get Destiny 2 Free to Keep on PC for a Limited Time
Free Game from Activision Activision Game Director Steve Cotton announced at BlizzCon 2018 that they will be offering Destiny 2 completely for free on PC. Of course, this is a promotion that is only for a limited time. Specifically for celebrating the new PC release and expansion of the game.…
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Underdog UK Team Defeats US in Overwatch World Cup Playoffs
Warm Serving of Humble Pie The US team was extremely confident coming into the Overwatch World Cup playoffs. However, their hopes of facing against the South Korean world champions have been dashed by the UK team. That is, despite UK having mostly players from the Contenders series, while the US…
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