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Overwatch 2 comes to Xbox Game Pass — but you can't play it on the cloud for one annoying reason

Overwatch 2 will be added to Xbox Game Pass on September 17, 2024. This means exclusive skins for subscribers, but unfortunately, there will be no Xbox Cloud Gaming for one easily missed reason.

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Blizzard is on the edge of making World of Warcraft truly amazing for endgame solo players for the first time in 20 years — but balance has been an ongoing nightmare

Blizzard's "Delves" in World of Warcraft have been incredibly fun and rewarding, or horribly painful and depressing, depending on which class you ask. WoW has been designed all up for group play for the past two decades, which is clearly making its new solo dungeon "Delves" a nightmare to balance.

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Diablo 4 has made $1 billion and counting for Blizzard, and a huge chunk of that comes from devilish microtransactions

Thanks to new details from a Blizzard developer's LinkedIn profile, we've gotten a glimpse of how much Diablo 4 has made in revenue — and how much of it comes from microtransactions.

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Diablo 4 has made over $150M from microtransactions, achieved over $1B in lifetime revenue

That's a lot of malfeasance tokens.

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Oops: WoW's hotfix to sort out Delve scaling has random mooks dealing upwards of 12,582,896 damage, with some players 'smoked out of nowhere'

Now that's a powerful bug.

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WoW: The War Within's new mini dungeons are annihilating solo players while groups sleepwalk through them for 'free' loot

Difficulty discourse has landed in the WoW community.

PC Gamer

"I know that this is difficult news to hear." New Microsoft Gaming layoffs hit: Xbox CEO Phil Spencer announces 650 redundancies in email to staff

Microsoft Gaming is cutting 650 staff today, after eliminating 1900 staff earlier in the year following its Activision-Blizzard acquisition. In an email to staff shared to Windows Central, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer said no studios would be closed and no devices cancelled, with most layoffs landing in corporate functions.

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WoW duo reach max level in The War Within without actually playing The War Within

It turns out, 20 year's worth of MMO zones earns you a lot of XP.

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World of Warcraft: The War Within's Season 1 is live—with Mythic dungeons, raids, and the new endgame activity Delves released in full

Time to hit that sweet, sweet loot treadmill.

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Former Blizzard boss says the $700 PS5 Pro is really more like a $350 upgrade because it's aimed at people who can trade in their PS5s at "places like GameStop"

"Good news is no one has to buy it"

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Diablo 4 player achieves 'infinite damage' by hitting so hard the game gives up on doing math

Technically, ∞ is smaller than most numbers.

PC Gamer

'World of Warcraft: The War Within' has some of the best art and story delivery we've ever seen from the MMORPG genre, but rushed key features holds it back

World of Warcraft turns 20 years old this year, and despite that, the aging MMORPG is finding its footing again after years of controversial writing and gameplay systems. The War Within continues Dragonflight's positive upward trajectory, with some of the best story telling the genre has ever seen. But big…

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Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is bringing back the series-favorite mercenary system to cover the "soft spot" that Blizzard says exists in each and every class build

Glass canon enthusiasts rejoice

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World of Warcraft veteran says MMO power leveling is a "mistake": "Getting to level cap should be an accomplishment, not a blip"

Project Ghost "won't forsake" endgame at the expense of power leveling

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Blizzard's cancelled survival game Odyssey resurfaces in alleged leaks showing its fairytale "new universe"

Blizzard's first new IP since Overwatch was scrapped earlier this year

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Overwatch 2 has another pricey deal: The once-free Oni Genji skin is available to players who spend $75 in the Blizzard Gear shop first

Don't fall for it.

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Blizzard reveals gameplay details and exciting classic rewards for World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary event

Blizzard Entertainment has revealed what's in store for players in World of Warcraft's upcoming 20th Anniversary event. These include remastered armor sets, a classic dungeon transformed into a 10-15 player Raid dungeon, a ton of fun activities, and more.

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As Blizzard warns Diablo 4's Vessel of Hatred PTR will be more "broken" than ever before, fans deliver with a method to get to level 60 in just 20 minutes

But don't expect it to make the DLC's full launch

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WoW's 20th anniversary event will bring Blackrock Depths as a revamped raid, a return to the opening of Ahn'Qiraj, classic dungeon timewalking, and modernized Tier 2 transmogs

Congratulations to paladins on once again having WoW's best armor set.

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"Things will be broken": Diablo 4 community director warns Vessel of Hatred's patch 2.0 PTR will be bumpier than usual

It may even hold the key to the cow level that Blizzard swears doesn't exist

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WoW's beloved pacifist panda returns to hit The War Within's level cap after 10 days of picking flowers, but not before a rival did so in 1 hour after clearing out the MMO's marketplace

The race to hit the level cap while ignoring the Horde and Alliance

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World of Warcraft: The War Within review – "One of the strongest WoW expansions in recent memory"

PC Gamer

Slow down—World of Warcraft: The War Within's best stories lie in its side quests and optional conversations

Patience is a virtue.

GamesRadar

World of Warcraft director says leaning on games like Warcraft 3 to make the MMO's most iconic villains means that Blizzard has "struggled" to create new bad guys since

The Worldsoul Saga is here to "build up a threat and give it the time that the story deserves"

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"We want to make sure that every group of players can seek adventure," World of Warcraft devs discuss boosting solo play in The War Within

World of Warcraft: The War Within is finally here, now available in pre-season. Beyond being a huge step up in terms of storytelling, Blizzard has also worked hard to boost solo play for small groups who don't have time to dedicate to the game's notoriously intensive raid scene. Here's how.

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