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Tag: Blizzard

  • Blizzard’s Lunar Festival

    Blizzard’s Lunar Festival

    Why is Blizzard successful with themed events and keeping its player base happy?

  • NOOB vs FPS: An intro to Overwatch

    NOOB vs FPS: An intro to Overwatch

    Ready Up’s resident Noob, Susie Kelly, attempts to resolve a few aiming issues in Overwatch.

  • Hearthstone Open Beta delayed until January 2014

    Following a patch that nerfs the Mage’s freeze ability, it has been announced that the Hearthstone Open Beta has been delayed until January. Hearthstone’s production director Jason Chayes explained that his team wanted more time to see how players respond to the closed beta trial, and to take more time in identifying any issues that…

  • Diablo III

    The king of loot is back. Diablo III, much like its predecessors, will fulfill your need to hoard and collect everything you can get your bloody mitts on. If you’re familiar with any previous Diablo game then you know what to expect here. In a lot of respects this is a faithful sequel, even down…

  • Solforge

    Solforge, a digital collectable card game that has recently launched into open Beta on Steam and iPad, certainly has a strong pedigree. It has been developed by Stoneblade Entertainment (formerly Gary’s Games), made up of several key figures within the Magic the Gathering community, who recently came to fame producing the excellent deckbuilding game Ascension,…

  • Video Games Live Kickstarter gets exclusive Diablo track

    Now so close to hitting its funding target Tommy Tallarico’s Video Games Live Level 3 continues to receive the blessings of World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment.  Blizzard have even lent the campaign one of their composers! Being packed into the third Video Games Live album, which this Kickstarter is funding, will be an exclusive…

  • Diablo III players discover unlimited gold exploit

    Diablo II players, following the recent 1.0.8 patch update, discovered an exploit that essentially gives out unlimited gold. Blizzard, who were quick to respond, have since fixed the exploit but have temporarily suspended Diablo III’s slightly controversial real-money Auction Houses. Players found the exploit after the patch was released, which gave both the parties gold…

  • StarCraft 2 eSports now with World Championship Series

    Today Blizzard announced the 2013 World Championship Series will feature StarCraft II, and be split into three regions: Europe, North America, and South Korea. Major League Gaming is on board to organise the North American side of things, while the Electronic Sports League will host the European side, and GomTV/OnGameNet will host the league in…

  • The Game Mechanic – How Heart of the Swarm does it right

    Johnny gives us his thoughts on what makes a good sequel.

  • Sucked into Starter Edition

    The other week Colin wrote up his experience of revisiting World of Warcraft via Blizzard’s new Free to Play version, or rather, untimed trial, of WoW, the Starter Edition. I, however, had never played WoW before a few weeks ago… so this is my spin on things. One of my hang-ups for games is the…