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BlizzCon 2018 News Hub A centralized hub for everything related to this year's BlizzCon.

Overwatch Free Trial: Nov 20-26

It seems the free weekends have escalated! We're getting a full week of Overwatch for free starting Tuesday, with all Heroes and Maps available, including Ashe! There's also three sprays to be earned during the promotion for all players, by watching some OW on twitch. Check out the full details below and get some friends to the game if everyone hasn't tried it already! Nov 15, 2018 at 19:10 by Starym 1 comment

PTR Patch Notes: Nov 14 - Brigitte Nerf, other Hero Buffs

There's a whole lot of Hero changes in today's PTR patch, as well as a new option for Windows Spatial Audio and the usual bug fixes. Only two nerfs this time, but the first one's a biggie, with Brigitte no longer being able to stun through barriers with Shield Bash, making Reinhardts everywhere rejoice! The other nerf comes courtesy of Doomfist as his Seismic Slam range has been reduced, but at least he also got a buff to Rising Uppercut. Everything else is buffs all round, as Bastion, McCree and Torbjorn get some upgrades. Nov 15, 2018 at 07:26 by Starym 3 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #29

Deadset talks about Diablo Immortal and the initial backlash in the latest episode of our podcast and you'll also find out why Paris is the best city in the world. Nov 14, 2018 at 22:41 by Stan

Live Patch Notes: Nov 13 - Ashe + Mercy, Roadhog, Reaper and Symmetra Buffs

Ashe has arrived! After a short stint on the PTR the 29th Hero of Overwatch is here, incredibly fast after her announcement less than 10 days ago. We're also seeing some Mercy buffs focusing on her Valkyrie ult, a whole lot of Roadhog love, from the hook to the main weapon and ult, as well as Reaper and Symmetra buffs as well. That's a whole lot of improvements for the Heroes, and we're getting the usual big amount of bug fixes as well. Nov 13, 2018 at 20:07 by Starym 1 comment

BlizzCon 2018 Diablo Immortal Press Conference Recap

Executive Producer Allen Adham and Principal Game Designer Wyatt Cheng confirmed at BlizzCon's Diablo Immortal press conference that many of Blizzard's best developers are currently working on new mobile titles across all IPs. Nov 11, 2018 at 12:36 by Stan 7 comments

All Ashe Skins and Intros in One Clip

With Ashe arriving on the PTR, redditor Noobinab0x took some time to make a combination of all her current highlight intros and skins in a very unique (and somewhat freaky) way! While the video does showcase her relatively limited skin variety, it's still a great watch and there's sure to be more skins added later on. Nov 09, 2018 at 16:31 by Starym 1 comment

Activision Blizzard Q3 2018 Earnings Call

Quarterly results of the Activison Blizzard Investor Call are here and Blizzard has 37 million monthly active users across all games, same as in Q2 2018. Nov 09, 2018 at 11:37 by Stan 9 comments

Next Major Patch to Require Full Reinstall

While we don't know exactly when it's coming, and it won't be that soon, the next major patch will indeed force us to reinstall the entire game client, due to some major changes to the back-end. Unfortunately this doesn't necessarily mean it will also bring a ton of new content (although it might, since it will be bringing Ashe in at the very least), as the changes might just be on a deeper level.

In any case, the patch notes should be interesting, and it's important to note the "major" in the title, so we might see some smaller patches before then as well. Nov 09, 2018 at 07:50 by Starym 6 comments

OWL S2 to Have Earlier Match Start Times

One of the issues with the first season of the Overwatch League was the pretty late match start times for EU fans, as most started in the evening over in the US, which meant EU fans had to tune in sometimes well after midnight to follow the action. With matches tending to last quite a while, that meant having to stay up very late which posed a problem for many.

League commissioner Nate Nazer recently announced that season 2 would be moving the match start times earlier to accommodate Eu viewers: Nov 09, 2018 at 06:23 by Starym

Jeff Kaplan: Athena and Echo Are Different Characters

We have summarised the main points of two BlizzCon interviews of Jeff Kaplan: one with Eurogamer and one with r/Overwatch. Nov 06, 2018 at 12:41 by Zadina 2 comments

PTR Patch Notes: November 5th - Ashe

Nothing new except Ashe on this version of the PTR, other than the removal of the "Unlock all" option in the Hero Gallery. You can check out her Hero page here and the dev update introducing her here for more info! Nov 06, 2018 at 08:15 by Starym 4 comments

Dev Update: Ashe Is On the PTR!

As we saw at the opening BlizzCon ceremony, Ashe is our Hero 29 and she's already joined the Overwatch world, arriving on the PTR today! Jeff talks about her backstory, her primary weapon's two fire modes and other abilities, especially her ult, B.O.B and more! Nov 05, 2018 at 21:17 by Starym 1 comment

All Blizzard Franchises Will Have Mobile Titles

The very controversial announcement of Diablo Immortal is still what everyone's talking about after BlizzCon has concluded, with fans of the franchise getting pretty upset. From a bunch of "Do you guys not have phones?" memes, to the off-season April fools Q&A guy, and accusations of the game simply being a reskin of another mobile hack 'n slash made by Netease, Blizzard's partner in development, it seems the decision to make Immortal the big finish for BlizzCon's opening ceremony wasn't that great. And all of that is not even going into some pretty poor PR moves after the fact, such as re-posting the cinematic and making it unlisted due to the huge number of dislikes the public one has and using the unlisted one on the official site. Nov 05, 2018 at 06:39 by Starym 60 comments

Overwatch: Whats Next & Ashe Origin Story Video

We are recapping Friday's Overwatch: What's Next panel at BlizzCon, which contains more information on the new heroine Ashe. Nov 03, 2018 at 23:57 by Zadina 8 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #28

The latest episode of our podcast is a BlizzCon special and we discuss WoW Classic, Warcraft III Remaster, what's next in World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games. Nov 03, 2018 at 12:37 by Stan

BlizzCon 2018 News Hub

Your source of the latest BlizzCon 2018 news. Nov 02, 2018 at 20:08 by Stan 3 comments

Warcraft 3 Remaster Officially Announced

It's finally time to go back to the roots of the Warcraft franchise, with the last strategy installment making a comeback! We're getting Warcraft 3 Reforged! It's coming next year, and there's a playable demo of the Culling of Stratholme at BlizzCon. You can already pre-purchase it as well! Nov 02, 2018 at 19:20 by Starym 27 comments

Animated Short: Reunion, New Hero Tease, Lucio-Ohs

It's time for a new Animated Short from the amazing cinematics team! It's Route 66 + McCree and teasing the new hero as Ashe the Deadlock gang, only to twist that and showcase Athena, the white robot at the very end! But she's not actually Hero 29, it really is Ashe! Nov 02, 2018 at 19:09 by Starym 2 comments

BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony Liveblog

BlizzCon's opening ceremony is upon us! Check out our liveblog of the event! Nov 02, 2018 at 18:19 by Stan 2 comments

Destiny 2 Free for All Battle.net Users

BlizzCon started off with a gift, as everyone with a Battle.net account is getting the game for free! As long as you register before November 18th you'll be getting the base game to keep forever. There will be more specific information coming soon, so check back here for details. Nov 02, 2018 at 18:17 by Starym 5 comments

Giant D.Va LEGO Mech Towering Over BlizzCon

It seems Blizzard and LEGO are going big for this year's BlizzCon, quite literally. There's going to be a gigantic D.Va made entirely out of LEGO bricks, weighing 1265 pounds (570 kilos), consisting of 145 thousand pieces, mech included, and towering somewhere in the 2.5 meter range! Check it out: Nov 01, 2018 at 17:27 by Starym 1 comment

PTR Patch: Oct 31st - Reaper Shotgun Spread Buff

We have a new small patch for the PTR today, with the only real change being the second modification to Reaper's shotgun spread, buffing it with more pellets moved to the middle and improving longer distance shots. Nov 01, 2018 at 12:06 by Starym

Competitive Season 13 Is Here

It's time for another season of competitive Overwatch play, and this time around we have the new Competitive Team Deathmatch mode that has already been live for a bit, as well as the brand new Torbjorn showing up in the season! There's also the usual rewards to be had at the end, with the two sprays and player icons, as well as Competitive Points to earn. Nov 01, 2018 at 01:06 by Starym

BlizzCon 2018 Expectations & Security Updates

According to Blizzard's latest post, BlizzCon 2018 will primarily focus on an upcoming patch and not Tides of Vengeance. The article also comes with information on additional security updates at the convention. Oct 30, 2018 at 20:42 by Stan 5 comments

PTR Patch: October 23rd - Buff for Mercy, Reaper, Roadhog and Symmetra

The buffs mentioned in this week's developer update have arrived on the PTR and we have Mercy getting upgrades to her Ult, Reaper getting less shotgun spread and more life steal, Roadhog getting plenty of changes to hook cooldown and momentum, bullet spread and knockback of his Ult, and Symmetra charging her primary fire faster. The rest is the usual bug fixes and a new option for Windows Spatial Audio. Oct 24, 2018 at 13:49 by Starym 7 comments

Dev Update: Upcoming Hero Buffs, OWWC Viewer

Here comes Jeff with another developer update, focusing on a new tool for watching the World Cup. The aptly named Overwatch World Cup Viewer is now in beta on the battle.net app and allows you to follow the event from any camera view point, to speed up or slow down action and a lot more. We also get some news on upcoming Hero buffs in the next patch for Reaper, Roadhog, Symmetra, and Mercy: Oct 23, 2018 at 22:33 by Starym

Check Out the Many OW LEGO Sets!

There's a whole lot of LEGO coming from the Overwatch side of things, featuring not only Heroes in various combinations and confrontations, but also maps, various payload vehicles and more! From Tracer vs. Widowmaker, Hanzo vs. Genji, Watchpoint: Gibraltar, to probably everyone's favorite, Reinhardt and D.Va, there's a wide selection of boxes to choose from.

Thanks to The Brick Fan for this great preview of some of the upcoming sets, and head on over to their site to check out even more images from each of these: Oct 23, 2018 at 16:10 by Starym 8 comments

Overwatch World Cup: Top 8 Preview

The OW League and World Cup are the two premiere esports events that show off the talents of all the incredibly skilled players from all over the world, with the cup focusing on national teams. Next weekend we get to see the conclusion of the tournament, with South Korea defending its title from last year and all 8 teams fighting it out over 2 days, culminating on November 3rd at 3:45PM PDT. Oct 23, 2018 at 15:34 by Starym 1 comment

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #27

In Episode 27 of the Icy Veins Podcast, we discuss Azerite Armor improvements and Patch 8.1, latest Hearthstone card nerfs, Halloween Terror & Torbjörn reworks, and Morhaime stepping down as president of the company. Oct 18, 2018 at 09:33 by Stan

Halloween Terror 2018 Has Arrived!

This year's Halloween Terror is here to spook us all! Not much has changed from last year, with Tracer and Brigitte being added to Junkenstein's Revenge, but the new skins are pretty great, especially Hammond! There's the usual spooky versions of certain maps, Endless Night mode for the Revenge and the new skins, highlight intros and emotes.

You can also check out all the changes that arrived with the patch, including Torbjorn and Pharah reworks, smaller Doomfist, McCree, Brigitte and Solider 76 tweaks, as well as visual improvements for all barriers and more. Oct 09, 2018 at 19:48 by Starym

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Podcast #29

Post BlizzCon Briefing

Diablo

Diablo Immortal, Deadset's impressions after the initial shock
WoW

Sylvanas, WoW Classic expansions, WCIII Reforged custom maps, 8.1 XP nerfs
Hearthstone

100 million players!
Heroes

Three importants changes announced at BlizzCon
Overwatch

Ashe is out, Paris is Eternal
General News

Activision Blizzard investors call

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22 Oct. 2018: Tracer Synergies and Matchups
- Removed Torbjorn from Counters following his rework.
22 Oct. 2018: Wrecking Ball Synergies and Matchups
- Removed Torbjorn from counters following his rework.
10 Oct. 2018: Brigitte Abilities and Strategy
- Updated Barrier Shield's health from 600 to 500.
10 Oct. 2018: McCree Abilities and Strategy
- Updated Combat Roll's cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds
10 Oct. 2018: Pharah Abilities and Strategy
- Updated changes to reflect patch 1.29.0.1
10 Oct. 2018: Torbjörn Introduction
- Guide rewritten.
10 Sep. 2018: Winston Introduction
- Guide rewritten.
31 Jul. 2018: Reaper Introduction
- Guide updated and moved to new format.

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