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Hearthstone’s first In The Works update unveils new Classic cards, details new-player experience improvements
Today Blizzard released the first In The Works update for its perennially popular online CCG Hearthstone, in which the studio gives players a peek...
Blizzard job postings reveal new unannounced project
Some new job postings on Blizzard's careers site seem to suggest that the World of Warcraft and Overwatch creator has something big in the...
Overwatch’s latest map, Busan, goes live today
Overwatch's latest map, Busan, is live as of today. The new map, which is located on D.Va's home turf of South Korea, may be...
Destiny 2 addresses known issues in wake of Forsaken launch
The launch of Destiny 2's latest expansion, Forsaken, seems to have been a fairly smooth one, but as with any major update, a few...
World of Warcraft players take to the skies to defend their city with style
As the title of World of Warcraft's latest expansion implies, Battle for Azeroth puts the spotlight on the ongoing war for superiority between the...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s Uldir raid opens today
World of Warcraft raiders, start your proverbial engines: Uldir, the first of Battle for Azeroth's raids, officially opens its gates today. The eight-boss raid...
Global Chat: What MMO bloggers think about Battle for Azeroth
There certainly is no shortage of opinions concerning World of Warcraft's latest expansion out there lately. The blogosphere by and large turned its full...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2018: Acti-Blizz sees revenue jump, massive engagement without big releases
Even in a quarter that didn't see a single major product or expansion release, Activision Blizzard made even more money than it did the...
Overwatch League gets ESPN and Disney XD television contract
Count this as a huge victory for Blizzard's attempt to legitimize and popularize its fledgling Overwatch League.
The studio announced this week that it has...
Activision-Blizzard talks battle royale and saving Destiny 2 as stock slowly recovers after Dow Jones snafu
Yesterday we teased ActiBlizz for putting out another boring quarterly financial report about its ever-growing piles of money, but even with World of Warcraft...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2018: WoW is actually outperforming expectations – time for a fourth yacht or no?
Reporting on Activision-Blizzard's endless piles of money is about as much fun as reporting on how fifty-bajillion-zillion people are playing fork knife. No, I...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2017: Activision Blizzard boasts ‘record quarter, record year’
With revenues and net bookings up, Activision Blizzard is riding high going into 2018. CEO Bobby Kotick introduced the Q4 2017 report by saying...
One Shots: The party at the end of all things
Do not be alarmed.
Your brain is now under our control, but that is a good thing. You no longer have to worry about the...
Blizzard considers an Overwatch movie
One of the persistent complaints about Overwatch is that for all of the animated shorts, comics, and CGI trailers that Blizzard has released, the...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2017: Destiny 2 tops console charts, WoW monthly users are ‘stable’
If you were expecting big news out of Activision-Blizzard's Q3 2017 financial report... sorry to disappoint you, but you've probably heard the big news...
Destiny 2’s Pop-Tarts and energy drink promo is everything wrong with this industry
Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine! This is not a joke: ActiBlizz just sent 'round a press release announcing a partnership with Rockstar energy drinks...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2017: Destiny 2 outperforms Destiny, WoW ‘time spent’ improves over 2016
We could practically copypasta last quarter's Activision-Blizzard report to this one and nobody would notice. That's because once again, it's the Blizzard segment of the...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2017: Blizzard’s online games drove Activision-Blizzard profits last quarter
Activision-Blizzard can't claim "biggest quarter ever" for the quarter ending March 2017, but it continues to rake in huge sums of money, enough to at...
Global Chat: Happy 10th birthday, LOTRO!
With Lord of the Rings Online hitting its 10th anniversary this past week, plenty of bloggers are enjoying the festivities and recalling some of...
Destiny 2 launches on PC and console September 8, ‘and there will be a ton of loot’
As teased and prodded and hinted at all week, Destiny 2 is official, and we've finally got a trailer to go with it. Expect...