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Thanks to Chinese law, Blizzard has published the odds that gamers face every time they buy a card pack or loot box. It was reported in December that starting May 2017, developers whose games contain random loot box drops will be required to reveal the underlying odds in compliance with …

A record period of growth for Overwatch has been rewarding for Activision-Blizzard’s finances. Blizzard has seen a 58 per cent jump in their revenue in the last quarter, exceeding analyst expectations with a respectable $441m in revenues. It still hasn’t quite hit the numbers seen by mobile outfit King, who …

Hearthstone is continuing to grow, with Blizzard now claiming the game has 70 million players after the release of Journey to Un’Goro. The press release, sent out today, doesn’t give a lot of detail on how often these players log in, how many are alternate accounts or how many of …

Gamers in China about to be given the gift of Overwatch next month, with the entire game being free to play for the entirety of May. The full game will be free, although free players will be locked out of competitive mode to avoid free players messing with the balance …

StarCraft has just received its first patch in eight years, and celebrated the occasion by making StarCraft and it’s expansion, Brood War, free to download too. None of this is entirely unexpected. In 2016 a StarCraft patch labelled 1.17 appeared on Blizzard’s FTP site, vanishing before it ever went live. …

Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has come forwards to say that nothing Overwatch related will be announced at E3. Overwatch fans have had a rough weekend, with the hype train getting underway after Terry Crews posted a video claiming he would be making an announcement at E3. In the video …

Casters Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles and Erik "DoA" Lonnquist have announced that they are leaving Korea and will return to the US to work on the upcoming Overwatch League.  The pair are best known as the English language voices of Korean League of Legends. For years the pair were the main …

World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer Blizzard has won a US lawsuit against bot maker Bossland. The German company has been ordered to pay Blizzard $8.6m having been found guilty of nearly 43,000 counts of copyright infringement. Bossland had tried to have the case dismissed but chose not to defend …

Blizzard has opened its first eSports arena over in Taipei in preparation for its first Asian Overwatch competition.  The arena holds up to 250 spectators and is known as the Blizzard eStadium. It will be used for smaller scale tournaments and it’s probably a safe bet to assume it might …

Blizzard has announced that the Overwatch World Cup will return for the second year.  The competition will see national teams formed, and they will compete for the title of Overwatch World Champions. The competition first debuted at Blizzcon last year, with South Korea unsurprisingly taking the win. However many assumed …