Blizzard News

A slight bump in subscription numbers for World of Warcraft after the launch of the Mists of Pandaria expansion has disappeared, with number now at 8.3 million, down from 9.6 million at the end of Q4 last last year, Activision announced in its latest earning report for Q1 20...

A gold-duping bug that has forced the closure of both auction houses should be fixed soon, but Blizzard has decided not to rollback the servers to pre-patch status, instead choosing to deal with the individual player accounts that decided to play fast and loose with the rule...

The promised upgrades to Diablo 3's cooperative play experience are out today with the new 1.0.8 patch, along with a bunch of adjustments to the classes, monsters and loot to make adventuring a bit easier.

It's been almost a year since Diablo 3 launched, but the game has gotten some renewed attention because of the console versions that are in development. Now, you can start pre-ordering the PlayStation 3 version of the game and get an in-game item to make power-leveling easie...

Developments on the Warcraft movie front keep getting more interesting. First, we find out that Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones would be would be taking over for Sam Raimi. Now we hear that the man behind the Academy Award winning visual effects team for Life of P...

Now's the time to make sure you have room on your credit card, because the first batch of tickets for this year's BlizzCon goes on sale tomorrow evening at $175 a pop. Of course, if you need more time to clear that balance, another group of tickets will go on sale on April 2...

Blizzard has been having fun with the pets it has created for World of Warcraft, creating everything from floating skulls to balloons to marmots. But for the first time, the dev team is creating a pet to pay tribute to a person and company outside the game.

The Alliance archmage Jaina Proudmoore and former Horde Warchief Thrall have a mutual respect and trust with each other in the Warcraft universe, but that doesn't keep them from facing off in a new video showing Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft in action.

Blizzard is expanding its business with the purchase of the IGN Pro League, but not for the sole purpose of growing its eSports division. The company plans to use the newly acquired tech and people to build out its mobile and web content.

The upcoming 5.3 patch to World of Warcraft works to reduce randomness in the Pet Battles system, and give more information on hit chances.

BlizzCon, Blizzard's annual showcase for its games, is coming to Anaheim, California, on November 8, with tickets going on sale in two batches beginning April 24. They aren't cheap, though, going for $175 a pop for the two-day event.

Blizzard has gabbed before about focusing on Diablo 3's co-op experience in patch 1.0.8, but what does that actually mean? What's new? What about me? What about my needs? Thankfully, Blizzard's thinking of me, and has explained a lot of changes to make multiplayer friendlier...

StarCraft turns 15 today and, to celebrate the big day, Blizzard will hand out special retro portraits to StarCraft II players. The faces from the original game's box art, once so fiercesome and stunningly realistic but now a bit goofy and so plainly CG, can grace your SC pr...

Diablo 3's game director Jay Wilson admitted today that both the real money and gold-based auction houses have "really hurt the game," but Blizzard hopes to fix the problems it has caused in minimizing item values instead of shutting them down completely.

We get hands-on with Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and talk to executive producer Hamilton Chu and game designer Ben Brode.