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Gaming News July 24, 2026, 06:27 PM
World of Warcraft players will be able to add Jimothy, the viral mutant raccoon, to their roster in a future update, Blizzard confirmed on the game's official account. The post also showed Jimothy's in-game model, giving fans their first look at how the internet-famous raccoon will appear in Azeroth. -
Gaming News July 23, 2026, 10:31 AM
Blizzard is reviewing accusations that a Game Master used test abilities during a World of Warcraft Mythic+23 run, after combat logs and streamer comments drew scrutiny. The company said it will take action as appropriate, while the accusation itself centers on a Mythic+23 run in the Nexus-Point Xenas dungeon. -
Gaming News July 21, 2026, 01:31 AM
Tyler Bielman, the game director of [gamecard=41334]Hearthstone[/gamecard], said he is not planning to take on a new full-time job after leaving Blizzard. In a farewell message, he also stressed that his departure was personal and not connected to the recent layoffs around Microsoft and Xbox. -
Gaming News July 16, 2026, 12:33 AM
Blizzard says Stadium in Overwatch 2 is moving into a maintenance phase, with seasonal balance updates, rank resets, and rewards taking priority over new heroes and maps. The studio laid out the change in its latest update.
The company says Stadium has settled into a smaller, dedicated audience. According to Blizzard's June 28 data, Stadium Ranked and Stadium Unranked each accounted for about 3% of daily players, while Unranked Role Queue 5v5 made up about 54% and Ranked Role Queue 5v5 about 37%. -
Gaming News July 12, 2026, 04:09 PM
In a new video about Xbox layoffs, Jason Schreier said Blizzard Entertainment is juggling several unannounced projects, among them new games in the Diablo and StarCraft universes. He raised the issue in The Cruelest Part Of Xbox's Layoffs, where his bigger concern was not the projects themselves but how vulnerable they may be while the studio is under pressure. -
World of Warcraft's Moon Guard Server Hit by 'Corrupted Blood 2.0' Outbreak After Debuff Escapes Dungeon
Gaming News July 7, 2026, 03:11 PM
WORLD OF WARCRAFT'S Moon Guard US server experienced a chaotic outbreak in early July 2026, as the Withering Contagion debuff escaped the Brackenhide Hollow dungeon and swept through major player hubs. The incident, which players quickly dubbed "Corrupted Blood 2.0", saw dozens of characters killed in social hotspots like Lion Pride's Inn and Goldshire before Blizzard Entertainment issued a rapid hotfix to contain the digital plague. -
Gaming News July 7, 2026, 02:21 PM
Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Microsoft, has managed to avoid the mass layoffs that have impacted other Xbox studios during Microsoft's ongoing gaming division restructuring. Sources cited by Windows Central report that Blizzard's staff reductions are significantly fewer than those seen in other Xbox divisions, though the studio has not been completely unaffected. -
Gaming News June 24, 2026, 10:11 PM
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Gaming News April 30, 2026, 03:57 PM
The iconic Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos is officially available once again in its classic form via the Battle.net client—almost six years after the original version disappeared from sale and was replaced by the remaster, Warcraft 3: Reforged. Now, when launching the game, players can choose between the updated version with revamped graphics or the beloved “old-school” edition, complete with its early 2000s visuals and interface. -
Feeling nostalgic? Fans have rebuilt Warcraft 3 from scratch — and now you can play it прямо in your browser
Gaming News April 25, 2026, 01:01 PM
Twenty years later, Warcraft 3 is playable again — only now without installation, without Blizzard, and directly in your browser window. And it wasn’t developers who made it happen, but fans. -
Gaming News April 21, 2026, 09:23 PM
With just a week to go before the launch of Diablo 4’s massive Lord of Hatred expansion, reviews have already started popping up on Metacritic. As of this writing, the DLC sits at a score of 82. To mark the upcoming release, Blizzard has dropped a brand-new trailer. -
Gaming News April 19, 2026, 03:44 PM
Blizzard Entertainment has dealt another blow to fan-run World of Warcraft servers. This time, the company’s lawyers targeted one of the biggest private projects of recent years — Stormforge. After receiving an official cease-and-desist notice from the rights holder, the team decided to shut the server down. -
Gaming News April 13, 2026, 10:32 PM
Blizzard has dropped the trailer and full details for the second season of Overwatch’s “Invasion” saga—titled “Summit”—which kicks off with a major content update and a significant expansion of the game’s storyline. The new season kicks off on April 14. -
Icarus flew too close: Blizzard crushes Turtle WoW fan server creators in court — seven claims, seven wins
Gaming News April 12, 2026, 10:34 AM
The popular fan-run World of Warcraft server — Turtle WoW — has lost its lawsuit against Blizzard Entertainment. The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled in Blizzard’s favor on all seven claims and issued a permanent injunction against the server’s developers, who operated under the legal entity AFKCraft Limited. -
Gaming News April 9, 2026, 02:47 AM
A World of Warcraft player known as Edengonedark surprised the community — he fully recreated the iconic Dust 2 map from Counter-Strike using the housing system. The result is so accurate that the map is instantly recognizable even out of context. -
Gaming News April 8, 2026, 09:49 PM
Blizzard has officially revealed the identity of Overwatch’s 51st hero — a new Damage-class character named Sierra. She will join the game with the launch of Season 2, titled Summit, which begins on April 14, 2026. -
They listened to the players: the authors of Overwatch agreed with the criticism and significantly revised the appearance of the new heroine
Gaming News April 7, 2026, 09:03 AM
At the end of winter, the main topic of discussion in the Overwatch community was the appearance of the new heroes. Their faces seemed to be the same, which caused outrage among the players. Now the developers have recognized the problem and fixed the problems. -
“Is the moment finally here?”: Blizzard hiring for an open-world shooter — and all signs point to a new StarCraft
Gaming News April 2, 2026, 01:51 AM
Blizzard Entertainment has posted a job listing for a Lead Designer to work on an AAA open-world shooter built on Unreal Engine. The project’s name hasn’t been revealed, but the combination of indirect clues strongly points to a new game set in the StarCraft universe. -
The road to glory can end abruptly: WoW pro player drops out of world-first race — because his subscription expired
Gaming News March 29, 2026, 02:30 PM
During the race for world first in the new World of Warcraft: Midnight raid, pro player Imfiredup from Team Liquid suddenly disappeared mid-fight. The reason turned out to be disarmingly simple: his subscription had expired. -
Gaming News March 23, 2026, 04:13 PM
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra defended AI after the Crimson Desert controversy: “Why give in to the few who can’t accept reality?”
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