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01 Nov

The veil between life and death is no more. Discover what lies beyond the world you know in the next chapter of the World of Warcraft saga--Shadowlands: Coming 2020.

Visit the official Shadowlands site to learn more!

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After the destruction of the Black Soulstone, the defeat of the Prime Evil, and the fall of Malthael, Angel of Death, countless lives have been lost and the denizens of Sanctuary find themselves struggling through the darkest of ages. Years have passed and, as some semblance of regular life starts rebuilding, a threat as old as the land itself begins to stir.

Diablo IV is the newest incarnation of the genre-defining ARPG players have come to know and love. Hellish new features, brutal challenges, and an indisputable return to darkness lie at the core of the game. Take a glimpse into the terror that awaits:


A Bleak Future

Diablo IV takes place many years after the events of Diablo III, after millions have been slaughtered by the actions of the High Heavens and Burning Hells alike. In the power vacuum, a legendary name resurfaces—Lilith, daughter of Mephisto, the whispered progenitor of humanity. Her grip on Sanctuary cuts deep into the he...

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ANNOUNCING DESCENT OF DRAGONS – HEARTHSTONE'S NEWEST EXPANSION!

Early this year, we experienced the Rise of Shadows where the League of E.V.I.L. set a master plan into motion: a daring theft of the floating city of Dalaran. That plot thickened in swirling sands and dusty tombs when plagues were unleashed and the Saviors of Uldum stood up to the forces of evil. Now, it’s time for this epic story to reach its conclusion. And it’s time… for some dragons.

Descent of Dragons takes the fight between the League of E.V.I.L. and the League of Explorers to the skies above Dragonblight, where the final phase of Rafaam’s arch-villainous plot is underway. As Dalaran continues to streak across the skies of Azeroth, it now carries a sinister payload. It seems that not all Plagues were contained in Uldum, and Rafaam plans to leverage this bounty of larceny to resurrect a great power thought long defeated.

New Descent of Dragons Game Board!...

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After months of preparation and hard-fought battles, the world’s best WoW teams have risen to the challenge to compete in the Global Finals, but each tournament will crown only one World Champion.

The culmination of the 2019 Arena World Championship and Mythic Dungeon International will take place within the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center at BlizzCon 2019!

Teams competing in the AWC & MDI Global Finals will take part in early rounds on Thursday, October 31. These games will determine who will continue in the upper bracket and who will have to fight their way through the lower. Interested in catching every second of the action? Don’t worry, recordings of the early round games will be released as a Twitch Premiere.

The MDI will kick off the epic WoW esport festivities all day Friday, November 1, beginning immediately after the opening ceremonies, while the AWC will keep the action going all day Saturday, November 2.

Prize Pool...

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31 Oct

Becoming an Overwatch® agent is easier than ever! Join the fight for the future with Overwatch® on PC available at $14.99 now through November 3rd!

  • Overwatch® for PC includes 31 heroes, 28 different maps, and endless fun for just $14.99.
  • Overwatch® Legendary Edition comes fully loaded along with 5 origin, 5 legendary, and 5 epic skins on PC for $19.99.

The action is at an all-time high with our newest hero: Sigma. Gravitate into battle as an eccentric astrophysicist equipped with mysterious Hyperspheres, which bounce off of walls and implode after a short duration. Protect your team with the floating Experimental Barrier and freeze incoming projectiles with Kinetic Grasp. Knock your enemies down and out by flinging a mass of debris at your unsuspecting enemies with Accretion. If your find yourself in a pinch, change the spacetime continuum with Gravitic Flux. Take flight then lift enemies in a targeted are...

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30 Oct

The Global Finals are here!

After a memorable year of competition, 16 competitors battled for a spot in the Round of 8 at BlizzCon. The top 8 players from the Circuit and the top 8 from the GSL met at the WCS Global Finals Opening Week in Seoul, Korea. Here’s a look at the players who made it to BlizzCon, and how they’re seeded into the bracket. 

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BlizzCon Schedule

Broadcast Day PDT CEST KST
Friday, November 1  12 p.m. 9 p.m. 4 a.m. (November 2)

Streams

As always, English-language coverage will be available on our ...

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29 Oct

Hi all! In the excitement before the culmination of this year’s WCS finals, we think it’s a good opportunity to revisit the proposals made earlier in the month with a fresh perspective. Special thanks to Wardi and his Balance Test Mod Invitational, which showcased these new changes in action. After further watching games and following feedback, below are a few changes we’d like to make to the testing queue:


Adjustments to Old Changes:

  • Reverted: Viking health increased from 135 to 150.

Based on feedback, we’d like to pull this change back for now due to concerns surrounding the Viking’s subsequent increased power in TvT as well as its increased strength in earlier parts of the game. If the Viking has any deficiencies, we believe they exist later on when end-game units and area-of-effect abilities start coming into play. Thus, if necessary, we’d like to instead tackle the Viking’s strength in late-game with alteratio...

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28 Oct

Do you have World of Warcraft questions you want to ask during BlizzCon? We’ve got you covered. Read on to learn more.

On Saturday, November 2 from 2:15 p.m. PDT to 3:00 p.m. PDT on the Mythic stage at BlizzCon 2019, the World of Warcraft Development Team will answer questions from attendees as well as those who submit questions online.

If you can’t attend BlizzCon in the flesh, don’t worry. We’ll open a forum thread* for your questions on Friday, November 1, and we’ll collect your questions until 6:00 a.m. PDT on Saturday, November 2.

If you’re attending BlizzCon 2019 in-person and would like to submit your question for the Q&A, head over to the Darkmoon Faire community area on the second level of the North Hall on Friday, November 1 and look for the Warcraft mailbox. We’ll have everything that you’ll need to compose your query for the developers to answer. If your question is selected, you’ll be given the opportunity to ask it li...

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In Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas—48 players battled it out in weekly online play during Seasons 1 and 2 of Grandmasters. Six players were relegated from the competition, while six more ran the Playoff gauntlet to secure their place at the Hearthstone Global Finals.

In China, the field was wider, with a Playoff bracket determined by the victors from a pool of 64 veterans and an open pool of 1024 players represented at several live events over the course of the year. It’s all boiled down to two players from the region joining the best from the rest of the world at BlizzCon.

Here are the 8 players that will compete at the Hearthstone Global Finals:

Asia-Pacific – Kim "Surrender" Jung-soo

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Asia-Pacific – Chen "tom60229" Wei Lin

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25 Oct

The Hearthstone Global Finals are here! To celebrate the occasion, we’ll be activating Twitch Drops on the channels below. Watch for 3 hours (consecutive or non-consecutive) to earn 2 Saviors of Uldum Card Packs! Watch for 6 hours, and you’ll receive 3 more packs! On top of that, we’ll be dropping 1,500 packs distributed at random to viewers in the chat every hour.

Twitch Drops Time Frame 

  • November 1 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
  • November 2 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM PT

Eligible Channels 

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24 Oct

This Hallow’s End, charge into battle astride a Warforged Nightmare, unleashing unbridled chaos upon your enemies! Those who own this terrifying steed, crafted from cold steel and vengeful spirits by grandmaster smiths, are also able to place a Nightmarish Hitching Post. This mysterious artifact has the power to summon a Warforged Nightmare for every member of your war party strong enough to handle the reins and worthy enough to be given the honor.

For a limited time, you can get 50% off* the regular price of the Warforged Nightmare** mount. Get yours now from the ...

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22 Oct

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Ready to make memories with your friends and share fantastic adventures with them across Azeroth and beyond? The new Recruit A Friend program is the perfect way to show them the ropes.

What’s New?

The new-and-improved Recruit A Friend (RAF) program retains fan-favorite features, and it introduces a bounty of new rewards—because Azeroth is best experienced with friends at your side. Just like the previous program, you can teleport to each other with Friend-to-Friend Summoning (which works on a 30 minute cooldown) and receive 50% bonus experience when partied together.

More Recruits, More Rewards

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  • A Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson Commemorative Bundle that we created in his honor will be granted to every player on log-in, for free, forever, beginning on October 22, PDT.
    • “iNcontroL: Legend” portrait
    • “iNcontroL: Caster Invitational” portrait
    • “iNcontroLTV” spray
    • “iNcontroL” announcer
  • Home Story Cup XX bundle has been added for purchase.
    • “HomeStory Cup XX” portrait
    • “HomeStory Cup XX: TaKe” portrait
    • “HomeStory Cup” spray
    • “HomeStory Cup XX” race banners for each race and random.
  • WCS 2019 portraits have been added for each of the 16 finalists and a trophy portrait for all “War Chest: BlizzCon 2019” owners.
  • “Classic” worker skins from BlizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket are now available for purchase.
  • Following Console skins are now av...
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21 Oct

When Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson passed away earlier this year, the StarCraft community lost someone incredibly special. Geoff was a competitor with unparalleled work ethic. He was ambitious and motivated, always looking for opportunities to learn and improve himself. But he was also the kind of one-in-a-million human being who genuinely cared about every single person he met—no matter who they were, or how unlikely it was that he would see them again.

Few people have had more of an impact on StarCraft than Geoff. As a player, he found success as early as 2007, when he won the national WCG Championship, catapulting him into a long and storied competitive career. He hosted podcasts like State of the Game and, more recently, The Pylon Show, which he co-founded. He shoutcasted major tournaments, demonstrating deep game knowledge, passion, and a preternatural ability to find the hilarity in any situation. In StarCraft, no matter where you looked, you found Geoff, and the commun...

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16 Oct

We’re adding a new feature to Heroes of the Storm that will allow you to charge into battle with an extra bit of flair: introducing Mastery Rings!

Reaching level 15 with a hero you own will unlock the ability to use gold to purchase a Mastery Ring for that hero, which will be displayed in game as an extra adornment of your hero’s regular selection circle. Additionally, when you reach level 25 with that hero you can then purchase an even more distinct Mastery Ring with gold.

FAQ

Q: Can I get Mastery Rings for more than one hero?
A: You can get Mastery Rings for as many heroes as you like, given than you’ve reached at least level 15 with those heroes.

Q: Do I purchase these rings for each Hero separately?
A: Yes. These rings signify experience playing individual heroes and let other players know that you know how to play your chosen hero, so Mastery Rings are hero-specific.

Q: When will Mastery Rings become availa...

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We have the full list of over 300 invited players for Masters Tour Bucharest! Anyone can take home the trophy but it’s worth keeping an eye on the players who performed well at both Masters Tour Las Vegas and Seoul, as they are most likely to clench one of the spots up for grabs in Grandmasters at the end of the year.

Details:

  • Venue: PGL Studios
  • Dates: October 18-20
  • Broadcast Start Time: 11:00 PM PDT each day, starting October 17.
  • Casters: ...
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Hearthstone is headed to Bucharest Romania for the final Masters Tour event of 2019! We know not everyone can join us in person, so we’ve got a gift for those watching from home.

Tune into the Masters Tour Bucharest steam on the eligible channels listed below for three hours (consecutive or non-consecutive) during the following time frames to earn a Saviors of Uldum Card Pack. Tune in for a total of six hours and we’ll grant you another one! Finally, we’ll drop 1,500 Classic Card packs every hour on the hour, distributed to viewers at random.

Twitch Drops Time Frame

  • October 17 11:00 PM - October 18 10:00 AM PDT
  • October 18 11:00 PM - October 19 10:00 AM PDT
  • October 19 11:00 PM - October 20 10:00 AM PDT

Eligible Channels

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