Esports Overwatch League heads to hipster Brooklyn for its finals

What could be more perfect than moving the inaugural championship finals for an eSports league from its Los Angeles home to Brooklyn? For Overwatch League, the esports conference created by fiat from Activision Blizzard, the move is the first step in its plans for housing esports teams in cities around the country. Heading from sunny […]

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Gigantic ‘World of Warcraft’ diorama is so big it broke a world record

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Leave it to Blizzard to take one of the most successful and enduring massively multiplayer online games and make a record-breaking diorama out of it.

During BlizzCon this past weekend, an impressive World of Warcraft diorama was on display, depicting a battle between the Horde and the Alliance at Lordaeron City to celebrate the reveal of the next World of Warcraft expansion, Battle for Azeroth.

It’s so big, it earned a Guinness world record for largest video game diorama.

The amazingly talented team I manage is responsible for a Guinness world record. Largest Video Game Diorama! @Warcraft #blizzcon pic.twitter.com/yrm7MK0E0v

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‘World of Warcraft’ is getting a new expansion that’s all about Horde vs. Alliance

After traveling to a different planet and defeating one of the biggest threats in the universe, where do you go from there? Back to basics.
The next World of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth was revealed at BlizzCon today, sending the 13-year-ol…

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Blizzard made a Blizzard-themed theme park for the newest ‘Overwatch’ map

Overwatch is celebrating the entirety of Blizzard Entertainment with a new theme park map as well as introducing a brand new hybrid support hero.
A new map called Blizzard World and a new hero named Moira were revealed for Overwatch during BlizzCon t…

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New ‘Hearthstone’ expansion coming soon captures the spirit of classic fantasy

Hearthstone is harkening back to some of fantasy’s most classic elements with its latest expansion, even taking its own crack at dungeon-delving with a new single player mode.
Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catacombs was revealed at BlizzCon today, and wil…

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‘StarCraft 2’ goes free-to-play after 7 years

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StarCraft 2 is going to be free to play starting this month, Blizzard revealed at BlizzCon today.

Specifically, StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty will be going free-to-play on Nov. 14 (Nov. 15 in some areas around the world), which includes the first campaign in StarCraft 2, the multiplayer, and portions of co-op campaigns. The two later expansions — Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void — and the Nova Covert Ops downloadable content will still come at a cost.

“We feel like we’ve got a great game that we want more people to play, so taking away some of the barriers — primarily cost — to get into the game, we’re hoping will really give a larger audience a chance to play StarCraft 2,” said game director Tim Morten. Read more…

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