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INTRODUCING HEARTHSTONE DUELS!

Welcome to Duels, a new competitive Hearthstone game mode that changes every season! In Duels, you’ll choose a Hero, a Hero Power, a starting Treasure, and build a 15-card starter deck from your collection before facing off against a series of worthy human opponents—Dungeon Run-style! Devise your path to victory by enhancing your deck after each match with minions, spells, and powerful Treasures to aid in increasingly difficult encounters with other players!

How It Works:

Duels will be accessible through the Modes button from the Hearthstone main screen, where you’d go to play Battlegrounds or Arena. Here’s how it works:

• When you start a Duels r...

ANNOUNCING

MADNESS AT THE DARKMOON FAIRE

HEARTHSTONE’S NEWEST EXPANSION

Come one, come all...

...to the Darkmoon Faire, Azeroth’s one and only traveling carnival! Bear witness to supernatural wonders, spectacular performances, and exotic beasts! ...

With more than 300 players to keep an eye on, Masters Tour events are full of new competitors to follow. For every returning player at each event there is someone new hoping to make a name for themself, and everyone is playing for their shot at joining Hearthstone Grandmasters. It is this mix of players that makes the Masters Tour so exciting to watch!

Although Grandmasters also participate in the Masters Tour, I’m going to introduce you to regular players who have incredible stories you may not be familiar with, all of which you should keep an eye on. This is the second of two Tales from the Tavern explorations for Masters Tour Online: Madrid, live beginning this Friday only on ...

At first, concept artist Daryl Tan doesn't even mention "art" when asked to describe his work. "I'm an idea salesperson," he says.

So are all of Daryl’s fellow concept artists on the Overwatch team. And it’s their job to make lots of people—inside Blizzard and out—into believers.

When a player’s interacting with a creative work, they need to be convinced to suspend their disbelief. Immersing you in another world requires an artist to invent credible details and to ensure their work keeps its essence in the face of development iteration. Here’s how the Overwatch team—armed with Photoshop and an aptitude for 2D illustration—does it.

Characters and Weapons

Senior concept artist Qiu Fang started at Blizzard in 2016, and he was soon assigned to work on the Talon units deployed to stop Blackwatch during the Overwatch: Retribution Archives mission. Those units weren’t the stars of the show—that ...

The final Masters Tour of 2020 is here! Over 300 invited players from more than 40 countries, will compete for the Masters Tour Online: Madrid trophy and their share of the $3,000,000 (USD) total prize pool for Hearthstone Masters Tour 2020. Join us this weekend for all of the competitive action only on YouTube Gaming!

After this weekend, the top total earners across all six 2020 Masters Tours in each region will earn invites to Hearthstone Grandmasters. There are currently a total of 10 spots open: three spots opened by Grandmasters Season 2 relegation in each region, and a fourth in Americas following Fei “...

The best WoW Classic European and North American teams took to Arathi Basin for an exhilarating three-week tournament of 15v15 to decide which teams were the true champions in each region.

Congratulations APES and Hell Yeah Brother for fighting their way through the field of intense competition. Each team will be taking home $4,500 (USD) out of the $6,000 (USD) regional prize pools, and the title of WoW Classic Fall Conquest Regional Champions!

EU Champions - APES

APES faced off against first seed Venoxis Finest on Saturday night in a frenzied Grand Final. Following their successful EU championship in the WoW Classic Summer Bowl, APES secured their second WoW Classic Grand Finals win defeating Venoxis Finest 2-0.  

NA Champions – Hell Yeah Brother

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Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

October 16, 2020

Barber Shop

• Resolved some issues with the Barber Shop previewing textures from other character models.
• Worgen players are now able to save changes to their Human forms.
• Resolved an issue with a Night Elf skin color and eye color not displaying correctly to other players.

Classes

• Mage
  • General
    • Portals can now ...

To the StarCraft community,

StarCraft is one of a kind, and we’re committed to making sure that those of you who love this universe like we do have a home here for many years to come. With that in mind, we want to let you know about a development change we’re making for StarCraft II as we continue supporting it for the long-term.

As many of you know, Blizzard continues updating its games long after the initial release—some of you will remember that we were actively patching the original StarCraft more than 10 years after it first hit store shelves. This year we celebrated 10 years of StarCraft II with one of our largest-ever patches, with massive updates to the editor, Prestige Talents for Co-op Commanders, and gameplay improvements delivered to players worldwide.

We’re going to continue supporting StarCraft II in the same manner as we have with our previous longstanding games, such as Brood War, focusing primarily on what our core and competitive communiti...

Blizzard Entertainment’s university relations and World of Warcraft development teams are proud to present the tenth annual World of Warcraft Student Art Contest! We’re calling on college and university students to submit original artwork or animations that would be a great fit for World of Warcraft.

Share with us your creative vision of something we’ve never seen before that still fits within the World of Warcraft universe. You can view previous winning submissions here.

Online submission forms are available on our contests page as of October 15 and entries will ...

Soldiers. Scientists. Adventurers. Oddities.

At its core, the story of Overwatch is one of heroes. Individuals from globe-spanning walks of life bonded by their belief in a better future for the world they inhabit. And there’s no better time to delve into the past of a hero familiar to all as the game’s poster girl than with the release of her titular comic, Tracer: London Calling. Before you dive into issue #2, discover more about how this iconic Overwatch character became who she is today.

FROM TEST PILOT TO TIME-JUMPER

The youngest member ever inducted into Overwatch’s experimental flight program, Lena Oxton—callsign: “Tracer”—was a hotshot p...

With the release of the Shadowlands pre-expansion patch, we’ve unleashed a new composition of the main title, “Through the Roof of the World,” which takes you on an auditory journey through Azeroth and beyond the veil.

Composed by: Glenn Stafford, Neal Acree, David Arkenstone, Grant Kirkhope, Jake Lefkowitz and includes classic World of Warcraft themes by Jason Hayes.
Music Director: Derek Duke

Come one, come all! On October 22 at 8:00 a.m. PT, on both Twitch and YouTube, Hearthstone Game Director Benjamin Lee will open our Fall Reveal stream with several major announcements! From there, Game Designers Pat Nagle, John McIntyre, and John Yang will speak to each reveal in-depth with our host, Brian Kibler. We’ve got some very exciting news in store that you won’...

The first EMEA Battlegrounds Cup begins! Utilizing the new Battlegrounds Lobbies, the top 8 Hearthstone Battlegrounds players on the European Ladder and 8 invited streamers are ready to compete this weekend, October 16-18, for a share of the $10,000 (USD) prize pool and bragging rights as the best Battlegrounds players in the region.

Details

Dates: Friday, October 16 – Sunday, October 18

Broadcast Start Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT

Where to Watch: YouTube.com/HearthstoneEsports, ...

The shattering of the veil between the Shadowlands and Azeroth was only the beginning. Dark deeds are afoot and Sylvanas is making her next move.

The Shadowlands pre-expansion patch is now live. Check out our survival guide video to learn more.

Shadowlands Preview: Character Customization

Update your look with hundreds of new character customization options. [LEARN MORE]

With hundreds of new additions with thousands of new combinations, Shadowlands’ new character customization options will help you better create the characters you envision in your mind.

From grizzled champions who wear their scars like badges of honor to wistful druids who are at one their forests, here are some short character backstories to help spark your imagination—along with the accompanying customizations that help bring out their personalities.

What Goes Bump in the Night

Rumors swirl of a pale wight that lurks in the shadows, a monstrous blend of man and beast with unnatural glowing eyes who’ll slip a poison-dipped dagger into its victim’s rib cage with surgical precision—before dissipating silently into the darkness.

On October 15, we’ll be releasing the 18.4.2 patch that includes numerous Battlegrounds balance updates! You can check out the full details of the patch below.

Battlegrounds Hero Updates

• Bartendotron has been removed from the Battlegrounds Hero Pool.

• DIE, INSECTS!
  • Old: After you kill 20 enemy minions, get Sulfuras. → New: After you kill 25 enemy minions, get Sulfuras.

• ...

In Shadowlands, players will be able to quest through four new zones ruled by ancient and powerful Covenants. Upon reaching the max level of 60, players will be able to join one of these Covenants as they continue to explore the Warcraft universe’s afterlife and the many mysteries and adventures that it holds.

Which Covenant will be part of your destiny?

• Kyrian Covenant
• Necrolord Covenant
• ...

It won’t be long until the journey into the Shadowlands begins, and beginning October 13, players take their first steps with the Shadowlands Pre-Expansion Patch.

Starting today, you can save 30% on a Race Change, Faction Change, and Character Transfer—simply head to the World of Warcraft in-game shop from now through November 15, 2020 to get started.

Visi...

With the release of the pre-expansion patch, players will be able to seek out a Barber Shop for a variety of character-customization options, including the ability to change your character’s gender, hair, facial features, and more. Due to this upcoming new in-game option, the Appearance Change service for Shadowlands has now been retired from the Blizzard Shop.

Battle for Azeroth Included In Your WoW Subscription

With the release of the Shadowlands pre-expansion patch, Battle for Azeroth will be included with your World of Warcraft subscription—no additional purchase required.