Tag: blizzard
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Blizzard Released a Classic Game Compilation
Collecting The Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing, and Blackthorne the Blizzard Arcade Collection is out now for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One with only backwards compatibility bringing the pack to the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. These games are still available as free downloads from Blizzard’s site, and have been…
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Blizzard Confirms Long-Rumored Diablo 2 Remaster, Diablo 2: Resurrected
Blizzard doesn’t have a great track record on remasters right now, their Warcraft III remaster was very poorly received, but this is their announcement trailer for a re-make of Diablo 2 and the Lord of Destruction expansion pack for $40 coming to Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One, and the Xbox Series…
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Waypoint: Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenue as They Fuck Over 800 Employees
Waypoint’s Patrick Klepek: Activision Blizzard, a company of more than 9,000 employees who’ve built some of the world’s most popular games, is a few things. They are a company who bragged about having a “record year,” on an earnings call this afternoon, a quarter where only raking in $2.4 billion in revenue was considered a…
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StarCraft Remastered Available
Blizzard have gone and done it, the remastered versions of StarCraft and its expansion Brood War are available on Battle.net for Windows and macOS at $15. Back when these remasters were announced Blizzard had said that the Battle.net name was going away, they’ve gone back on that and will now call it Blizzard Battle.net, which…
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Heroes of the Storm’s Great Updates
Kat Bailey has this interview with Blizzard’s lead designer on Heroes of the Storm, Travis McGeathy titled On its Second Anniversary, Heroes of the Storm Has Finally Turned a Corner. It’s a sentiment I completely agree with, and I’ll slightly disclaim my discussion of this game by noting that a good friend works at Activision. When I first…