Neowin News Feed for: Blizzard

Blizzard to make Diablo III for PS3 and PS4 [Update]

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:56:26 +0000

Blizzard has announced that it has signed up to make console games for the first time in a long time, with the first games coming for Sony's PlayStation 3 and 4 consoles. Read more...

Blizzard to hold 2013 BlizzCon on November 8-9

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:47:47 +0000

Blizzard announced that it will hold the 2013 edition of its BlizzCon fan event on November 8-9 in Anaheim, California but tickets for the event are not yet on sale. Read more...

Diablo III dueling mode to be called brawling

John Callaham — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:11:29 +0000

Blizzard has announced that its gameplay features for a PvP dueling mode for Diablo III have caused the team to use the name "brawling" to describe the actual gameplay mode. Read more...

Diablo III game director leaves team, stays at Blizzard

John Callaham — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:20:35 +0000

Jay Wilson, the long time game director for Blizzard's action-RPG Diablo III, announced this week he is leaving the Diablo team but will stay at Blizzard on an unannounced project. Read more...

Will Blizzard enter the Linux gaming trend in 2013?

John Callaham — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:00:18 +0000

A new report claims that Blizzard plans to release a Linux port for at least one of its major games in 2013, joining the trend of increased interest in Linux gaming. Read more...

No Team Deathmatch mode for Diablo III

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:42:55 +0000

Blizzard has announced they have abandoned plans to launch a Team Deathmatch multiplayer mode for Diablo III, although they are still working on some kind of Duel mode. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm expands beta test

John Callaham — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:43:06 +0000

Blizzard has expanded its ongoing multiplayer beta test for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm to include those players who have pre-ordered the RTS expansion pack. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm coming March 12th

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:17:51 +0000

Blizzard has announced that it will release its long awaited RTS expansion pack StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm on March 12th, in Standard and Collector's editions and a Digital Deluxe Edition. Read more...

Blizzard hit with lawsuit over Battle.net security

John Callaham — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:31:04 +0000

Blizzard has been hit with a lawsuit, claiming that it fails to tell users of its Battle.net service that it should also use an authenticator to keep their account safe. Blizzard says it will fight it Read more...

10 million Diablo III copies sold; expansion coming

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:41:30 +0000

Blizzard has announced that Diablo III has sold 10 million copies since its launch in May. The developer is also working on an expansion for the fantasy action-RPG. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm getting multiplayer XP system

John Callaham — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:46:44 +0100

Blizzard plans to add a new feature in the StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm expansion pack that will give multiplayer gamers a leveling system that will add new decals or portraits. Read more...

Diablo in space? Blizzard actually worked on "Starblo"

John Callaham — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:13:47 +0100

A new report claims that Blizzard worked on a now cancelled game that got the nickname "Starblo" and basically took the Diablo action-RPG game to a space setting. Read more...

World of Warcraft hackers kill lots of in-game characters

John Callaham — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:13:19 +0100

Hackers apparently found an exploit in the servers of Blizzard's hit MMO World of Warcraft that allowed them to kill lots of player characters and NPCs all at once. Blizzard says it has now fixed it. Read more...

World of Warcraft center of Maine political race

John Callaham — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:21:55 +0100

A Democratic candidate for a state senate office in Maine this year is being slammed by her Republican opponents because of her hobby. playing World of Warcraft. Read more...

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria sells 2.7 million units in first week

John Callaham — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:30:10 +0100

Blizzard has announced that Mists of Pandaria, the fourth commercial expansion pack for World of Warcraft, sold 2.7 million units in its first week of sales in late September. Read more...

Blizzard's "Project Titan" now has over 100 team members

John Callaham — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:47:23 +0100

In a new video interview, Blizzard's Rob Pardo claims that the company's mysterious next MMO, known as "Project Titan" now has over 100 team members working on the game. Read more...

Blizzard has "no particular fear" of Windows 8

John Callaham — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:49:01 +0100

Blizzard senior software engineer Darren Williams says that the game developer has "no particular fear" of Windows 8 as the company gets ready to launch its latest World of Warcraft expansion. Read more...

Blizzard looking into free-to-play for StarCraft II multiplayer

John Callaham — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:19:16 +0100

A new report claims that Blizzard is looking into possibly turning the multiplayer portion of StarCraft II into a free-to-play game but has yet to determine how to make money from that effort. Read more...

Blizzard watermarks WoW screenshots with player info

Nathan Tsui — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:55:45 +0100

Astute players of World of Warcraft have discovered that watermarks are being inserted into screenshots taken of the game. The watermark data includes identifying player and server information. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm multiplayer beta begins

John Callaham — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:21:28 +0100

Blizzard has announced that the multiplayer beta test for its RTS expansion pack StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm has begun, but is currently limited to a very small outside audience. Read more...