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Over 8 billion game hours were spent with Blizzard in 2024

Blizzard Entertainment's President shares some light-hearted statistics from her first year at the helm

Windows Central · Dec 17, 2024

WoW's newest raid will build on 20 years of large-group encounters, with new twists—and perhaps less help from mods

Game director Ion Hazzikostas on what to expect in Liberation of Undermine.

PC Gamer · Dec 13, 2024

Diablo 4 holiday event will give more rewards for expansion players

Diablo 4 is getting a 'Slay Ride to Hell' in-game holiday event which will increase goblin spawns and let us earn free cosmetics but will it be enough to tempt players away from Path of Exile 2?

Windows Central · Dec 12, 2024

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Path of Exile 2's character customisation can't compete with Diablo 4's hellishly good drip, but the good news is you'll barely notice

Nobody is visiting Wraeclast for cute fits.

PC Gamer · Dec 11, 2024

Fellow Diablo 2 snobs: Path of Exile 2 is the game we've been waiting for

Path of Exile 2 is new on the scene, and it's giving me major Diablo 2 vibes. It's the first ARPG I've played other than Blizzard's masterpiece that captures the same feel, and I can't get enough.

Windows Central · Dec 10, 2024

'World of Warcraft: Midnight' is FINALLY delivering one of the game's most fan-requested features, but there are six things I want to see the system incorporate to make sure it really lands

After many years of requests, Blizzard Entertainment will finally add player housing to World of Warcraft in the upcoming Midnight expansion. Join us as we count down the things we wish to see player housing include when it goes live.

Windows Central · Dec 10, 2024

Some long-awaited classic Activision-Blizzard games just appeared on the Microsoft Store, could Xbox be getting another Game Pass injection?

Call of Duty + United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare have appeared on the Microsoft Store, so will they come to Xbox Game Pass?

Windows Central · Dec 9, 2024

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It's only taken 3 days for Overwatch's worst meta to manifest in Marvel Rivals: "Games change. GOATS is inevitable."

One of Blizzard's biggest Overwatch-shaped headaches is now NetEase's to solve

GamesRadar · Dec 9, 2024

Path of Exile 2 is great but it can't match the dopamine hit of a good Diablo 4 loot drop

Build variety is great and all but I need more juicy loot.

PC Gamer · Dec 9, 2024

Game Pass games are looking good at this year's Game Awards

Your Game Pass collection suddenly looks a whole lot shinier.

PC Gamer · Dec 9, 2024

Marvel Rivals celebrates a successful launch, with NetEase Games' Overwatch rival hitting over 10 million players in just 3 days

Step aside, Blizzard

GamesRadar · Dec 9, 2024

WoW veteran says the MMO's devs had to make "ten times the amount of quests" as originally planned to sate playtesters, and now the game has 38,000 of them

"The answer, of course, was to simply add more."

GamesRadar · Dec 7, 2024

Marvel Rivals players are complaining that nobody is playing healer, and the grizzled Overwatch vets knowingly nod in solidarity

Time is a flat circle, and healers are getting ignored in Marvel Rivals.

PC Gamer · Dec 6, 2024

Is Xbox slowly taking over Battle.net? As "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" pops up on Battle.net, we're wondering what Microsoft is up to with Blizzard's iconic launcher.

First Avowed, and now Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Microsoft's Xbox "experiments" with Battle.net continue, and we have to wonder what the endgame is.

Windows Central · Dec 6, 2024

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GamesRadar · Dec 6, 2024

Marvel Rivals review: "So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths"

GamesRadar · Dec 5, 2024

Warcraft 2 just got its "first balance changes in 24 years," including a nerf RTS players have wanted since 1995

New century, new patch

PC Gamer · Dec 5, 2024

Former Blizzard president thinks Marvel Rivals is a rip-off of Overwatch and that Black Widow is a copy of Widowmaker, or maybe he's joking—it's impossible to tell

I really hope this is a joke.

Windows Central · Dec 5, 2024

As a Diablo fan, I'm rooting for the success of its strongest competitor: Path of Exile 2

With Path of Exile 2 launching soon, Diablo 4 devotees are pushing back on the notion that it spells doom for Blizzard and, rather, brings innovation to both games.

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Windows Central · Dec 3, 2024

As Blizzard pulls Warcraft 1 and 2 from GOG.com, we have to ask, why aren't they on PC Game Pass yet? Why aren't dozens of Xbox's Activision-Blizzard games on Game Pass yet for that matter?

Warcraft 1 and 2 are being removed from the DRM-free GOG.com at the behest of Blizzard, for sadly obvious reasons.

Player One · Dec 3, 2024

GOG Expands Preservation Program as Blizzard Requests To Pull Out 'Warcraft 1,' 'Warcraft 2' Titles

Blizzard requested that Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 be removed from GOG as the latter expands its preservation program.

PC Gamer · Dec 2, 2024

Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot

Good old GOG.

GamesRadar · Nov 30, 2024

World of Warcraft devs used to joke about the MMO making $1 million per month - just months before it smashed through $15 million in monthly revenue

"We had a good laugh about that one, but we all kind of thought maybe it could do that for real."

GamesRadar · Nov 29, 2024

World of Warcraft got its iconic MMO quest markers thanks to Metal Gear Solid

20 years later, WoW is still going strong

GamesRadar · Nov 29, 2024

Tencent's new Horizon Zero Dawn ripoff is so blatant that even Blizzard's former president is speaking up about it

If I had a nickel, etc etc

PC Gamer · Nov 28, 2024

Diablo boss triggers mass eyeroll after wondering out loud if 'we could normalize Diablo-like for ARPGs that follow the Diablo formula'

I wonder if we could normalise calling me a cool dude that's fun to hang out with, but we don't always get what we want.

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