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Ukrainian game artist Olga Gyshchak has won the Blizzard contest. Her artwork Teambuilding, which was submitted to the Blizzcon 2023 Art Contest, won and was shown during the Blizzcon 2023 broadcast, writes Gamedev.DOU.ua. Olga Gyshchak, who is only 24 years old, graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree ... Read more

During this year’s traditional video game festival BlizzCon 2023, Blizzard announced not just another World of Warcraft expansion, as fans expected, but a whole trilogy. It’s called Worldsoul Saga, and it’s a story arc that will unfold over the next three expansions. The first of them, The War Within, will ... Read more

In the summer, Blizzard together with actress Mila Kunis announced a charity fundraiser Pet Pack For Ukraine – two “pets” in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, a golden retriever Sunny and a baby murlock Flarky, could be purchased for World of Warcraft. Now Blizzard has reported on the results ... Read more

The American company Blizzard has presented patch 1.13 for Diablo IV. All updates can be found on the developer’s website. The company has made changes to monster skills and properties of special elites that impose control effects. Blizzard has also fixed some bugs in the game. One of the changes ... Read more

Daniel Ahmed from the analytical company Niko Partners drew attention to an interesting feature of Overwatch 2 review bombing on Steam – the lion’s share of negative reviews were written by Chinese players. Although Chinese players tend to express the same complaints about the game as Westerners, there are some ... Read more

Blizzard, together with the famous actress of Ukrainian origin, Mila Kunis, announced the launch of a charity campaign: the sale of a set of game “pets” in the colors of the Ukrainian flag – Pet Pack For Ukraine. For World of Warcraft, Golden Retriever Sunny is offered, and for World ... Read more

As reported in official press release, Blizzard was unable to reach an agreement with NetEase, its game licensing and distribution partner in China. As a result, a number of the company’s games will become unavailable in this country starting January 23, 2023. This applies to almost all current Blizzard games: ... Read more

Blizzard’s launch of Overwatch 2 has been problematic, to say the least. So much so that on Metacritic the player rating is currently only 1.3/10 (this is not yet Diablo Immortal with 0.3/10 but anyway). There are actually quite a few reasons for this, and one of them, although not ... Read more

As it turns out, Blizzard considers the name Azov Nazi and bans it from their games. But they do not consider the letters ZZ in their own name to be Nazi and do not want to change their name to Bliard. Information about the Azov title ban appeared on the ... Read more

It turns out that Blizzard and NetEase have been working on a mobile version of the MMO World of Warcraft. This is reported by Bloomberg. According to the resource, NetEase involved a team of more than 100 employees in the project, and the development lasted for three years. However, the ... Read more

As you know, the second part of Blizzard’s team shooter Overwatch 2 will be released in the fall. So far, the beta test is underway, and players will learn that Blizzard, after abandoning the use of loot boxes, is actively looking for other options for monetizing the free-to-play game – ... Read more

In the news about the cost of upgrading a character in Diablo Immortal we mentioned that the user rating of the game on Metacritic was almost close to the previous failed project Blizzard – Warcraft III: Reforged, which was the lowest among all the company’s games. The key word is ... Read more

Do you still remember this game – Warcraft 3: Reforged? Most likely not anymore. And for a long time, Blizzard seemed to have forgotten about it, too. At least on the official page of the game, the latest news dates back to August 2020, on BlizzCon 2021 about Warcraft 3: ... Read more