Blizzard News

World of Warcraft will discontinue the Scroll of Resurrection referral program for former subscribers on February 18, so this is your last chance to try and convince a friend to come back and get yourself a rare mount in the process.

The eSports Association is teaming up with Blizzard to offer a new way for college students to break into the professional eSports community.

Blizzard has filed suit against Chinese dev Unico, over its alleged Hearthstone copycat "Legend of Crouching Dragon." The suit seeks $1.65 million in damages.

StarCraft II has received a major update, with patch 2.1 offering Arcade mode, custom games, all three SC2 races, and a gaggle of mod tools to Starter Edition owners for free.

Blizzard has finally opened the doors on Hearthstone's open beta. You can stop asking your friends for beta codes now.

Blizzard dropped a few choice nerfs in Hearthstone's beta test yesterday, killing several unpleasant decks, but this isn't how it plans to balance the virtual collectible card game in the long term. Ultimately, Blizzard wants to stop single cards or decks becoming dominant b...

World of Warcraft's upcoming Draenor expansion includes an instant boost to level 90, and Blizzard has said it has plans to test the ability to purchase those instant-boosts directly.

World of Warcraft users experiencing high queue times will soon be able to migrate their characters to a new low-population server for free for a one-week period.

Curiously, Xbox One is one of the few platforms to not get a port of Diablo 3.

Blizzard has delayed the open beta for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, saying it's not ready yet. But, it has sent out invites to everyone who signed up by this week, and plans another large scale invite on January 7.

The upcoming Diablo 3 expansion, Reaper of Souls, will be available on PC and Mac on March 25, Blizzard has announced. And of course, there's a...

For anyone who played a lot of StarCraft (or watched it played professionally), the RTS's soundtrack is a permanent fixture in their head, seared into ear canals like spiral soundwaves on a record and played by your fingernail every time you root around in there. Delightfull...

Legendary Pictures has announced some of its casting for the Warcraft movie, including actors from Vikings, Pacific Rim, and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

A set of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reveal that intelligence agencies like the NSA and British GCHQ created characters and obtained communications data on Xbox Live, World of Warcraft, and Second Life to keep tabs on possible terrorist and crimi...

Author and long-time Shacknews community member, David Craddock, recently released the first book of the Stay Awhile and Listen trilogy. We got an interview with Mr. Craddock, chronicling his work on the ongoing project, asking about his time at Shacknews, and also about his...