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Halloween Terror 2018 Has Arrived! Check out everything that's coming this Halloween as well as the big patch notes featuring the Torbjorn and Pharah reworks!

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. Yesterday 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

Live Patch notes: Oct 9th - Torbjorn and Pharah Reworks, Halloween Terror and More

The Halloween Terror patch is here and it's a big one, bringing a whole lot more than just the event! We have the Torbjorn rework going live, as well as Pharah's smaller one, better shield visuals overall and smaller changes to Doomfist, McCree, Brigitte and Solider 76. There's also whole lot more bug fixes and other tweaks, so read on below and head on over here for the Halloween Terror event details and skins. Oct 09, 2018 at 19:33 by Starym

Halloween Terror Coming Today + New Skins

Today's the day (or tomorrow for you US folk) that this year's Halloween Terror arrives to haunt us for 23 days and Dr. Junkenstein shows off his latest caper. Blizzard have been teasing the event with the new skins that will be available tomorrow, so let's take a look (spoiler alert - Hammond wins, followed closely by Pharah): Oct 08, 2018 at 22:21 by Starym 5 comments

BlizzCon 2018 Online Merch Sale: October 11th

This year's merch sale starts October 11 for BlizzCon & Virtual Ticket holders. It will open to everyone a week later, on October 18. Here's a preview of goodies that will soon become purchasable through the Blizzard Gear Store! Oct 05, 2018 at 12:16 by Stan 4 comments

J. Allen Brack Is the New President of Blizzard Entertainment

In somewhat surprising news, Mike Morhaime has stepped down as President of Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft Executive Producer J. Allen Brack is stepping in to fill those massive shoes. Morhaime will stay on as a "strategic advisor" for the company and Blizzard founder Allen Adham as well as Chief Development Officer Ray Gresko have been promoted to Blizzard’s Check executive leadership team. Oct 03, 2018 at 22:02 by Starym 11 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #26

Episode 26 of our podcast is out! Patrick and Deadset discuss the latest Season 15 and speculate about possible Diablo announcements at BlizzCon. Other topics include WoW Classic Demo for Virtual Ticket holders, Azerite Armor issues, and recent Hero reworks in Overwatch. Oct 03, 2018 at 21:29 by Stan

BlizzCon Schedule Is Live, Hints at Diablo Announcement?

Blizzard have finally announced the full schedule for all the panels, competitions, tournaments and events that will be shown at BlizzCon on November 2nd through the 4th! Obviously the opening ceremonies are the main focus, just in case we get some brand new announcements (gogo Diablo 4), and among the many "What's Next" panels and World Championship tournaments for the various games we have a Diablo: World and Q&A panel in addition to a what's next one (and we really, REALLY want an answer to that question for the Diablo franchise). Also of note is the Lorecraft: Creating Memorable Characters and BfA Cinematics panels, where we might get some more discussion on the disappointment some players are feeling in the story/character development in WoW.

In any case, there's a lot going on this year, and with the Virtual Ticket including access to the WoW Classic demo, as well as faction cloaks for WoW characters and a lot more, it seems there will be many viewers, among which many excited Diablo fans are just waiting to be disappointed. Oct 03, 2018 at 00:04 by Starym 29 comments

Overwatch LEGO Teaser

Jeff Kaplan, Tracer and Pachimari star in this thrilling action packed teaser, with Oscar-worthy acting (as usual) from Jeff, indicating we'll be getting some Overwatch themed LEGO very soon! Hopefully we get all Heroes represented in the range, Reinhardt with shield or we riot! Oct 02, 2018 at 20:15 by Starym 6 comments

Halloween Event Coming on October 9th!

It's not much but we got an official tease for the upcoming Halloween Terror event, and it's inc next week and will last until October 31st! We'll see what Dr. Junkenstein is up to this year soon, but you can be pretty sure there will be new skins and at least some twist to the existing PvE event. Oct 01, 2018 at 20:27 by Starym 1 comment

PTR Patch Notes: September 26th - Torbjorn Fixes, Additional Assemble Team Time

We have a minor PTR update. giving us 15 extra seconds on the competitive playlist Assemble Your Team timer on Assault, Assault/Escort, and Escort maps, as well as a bunch of Torbjorn bug fixes! Sep 28, 2018 at 07:59 by Starym

PTR Patch Notes: Sept 22nd - Torbjörn, Pharah and More Hero Changes

One of the biggest PTR patches to date, today's new playground brings the massive Torbjörn rework, a fairly big one for Pharah as well, in addition some significant changes to Brigitte and McCree, and some less significant ones for Orisa, Mei and Solider 76. There's also the usual bug fixes, and you can read up on the Torbjörn changes in more detail here, as Geoff Goodman went into them in-depth. Sep 22, 2018 at 01:16 by Starym 5 comments

Detailed Explanations of the Torbjörn Rework

After the dev update giving us some info on the huge Torbjörn changes on the PTR, Lead game Designer Geoff Goodman went into a whole lot more detail and gave us the rundown on everything that's coming for the turret crafting Hero. From his primary weapon damage, reload speed and alternate fire, to his completely new ultimate, this is a complete reword of the not-really-a-dwarf, so check it out: Sep 22, 2018 at 00:42 by Starym 4 comments

Dev Update: Torbjörn Rework, Hero Updates, Halloween Terror

The announced developer update held out until the very end of the week but it's a big one! After some teasing about Pharah updates coming to the PTR Jeff pulled a rabbit out of his hat and that rabbit was the huge Torbjörn rework that we've been waiting for for a while. We're also getting details about a the new Halloween Terror event, and Orisa, Soldier: 76, McCree, and Pharah hero updates! Sep 21, 2018 at 19:18 by Starym 3 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #25

Episode 25 of the Icy Veins podcast is here! We talk about Patch 8.1, Method's world first race, Hearthstone's latest content update, Garden Terror rework, and more. Sep 20, 2018 at 08:59 by Stan

Pharah Changes Incoming, Cross-platform Skins and More

Jeff Kaplan took to the forums a while ago and addressed some questions, and the big news that came from that session was that there are some changes coming to Pharah on the PTR soon. There's a slo a dev update video coming next week, but it probably won't be Pharah related, as he said they're not sure when those changes will be coming and the video is already recorded. The other news is that the dev team is not happy with progress being segmented on the various platforms, so your skins and other cosmetics don't transfer between PC, Xbox or Playstation and that they're brainstorming solutions. Sep 16, 2018 at 17:34 by Starym 8 comments

BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, Goody Bag, Mobile App, More

A whole lot of info has arrived with the All-Acess Kickoff Show today and we can now buy the Virtual Ticket, which is 10$ more expensive this year (but includes last year's archive) and we can download the BlizzCon Mobile App! Sep 12, 2018 at 22:45 by Starym 5 comments

Live Patch Notes: Sept 11 - Busan Arrives, Brigitte, Rein, Widow Changes

The Busan patch is live and aside from the new control map we also get the changes to charging and charged Heroes aka Brigitte and Reinhardt, a change to crits for weapons that fire multiple shots at once, some aim sensitivity changes and Widow's grappling hook. We also finally get the cosmetics filter for the Hero gallery, making it easy to find what you're looking for! There'a a lot of bug fixes to be had as well: Sep 11, 2018 at 19:34 by Starym 2 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #24

Episode 24 of the Icy Veins podcast is here and we discuss WoW's Warbringers: Azshara and endgame content, Hearthstone comic and EU playoffs, the recent Hanamura Temple rework in Heroes as well as Overwatch's D.Va challenge. Sep 06, 2018 at 03:57 by Stan

Season 12 Increases Avoid as Teammate Slots

The latest competitive season doesn't just bring the usual updates you'd expect, it's also increasing the "Avoid as Teammate" slots from 2 to 3, as well as adding Hammond/Wrecking Ball to the roster. It seems queue times weren't affected that much by the new feature, so an extra slot won't be that much of an issue there. Sep 05, 2018 at 08:16 by Starym

August 28 Live Patch: Nano Cola, Symmetra Bug Fixes

The Nano Cola Challenge has begun! Not much else to today's patch notes except a few fixes for Symmetra's turrets and teleporter issues, Hero Gallery bug fixes and a few other things. Also of note is that the patch crashed a lot of competitive games on the last day of the season, which didn't go over so well. Aug 29, 2018 at 10:41 by Starym 1 comment

D.Vas Nano Cola Challenge: Earn D.Va Cosmetics

It's all about everyone's favourite tank heroine up until September 10! Aug 28, 2018 at 22:10 by Zadina

Sumer Sale: 50% off + Gamescom Highlight Video

There's a summer sale on Overwatch happening following the free weekend, as usual, so now's the time to grab the game if you aren't one of the 30+ million players already enjoying it. We also had a nice highlights video from the Overwatch part of Blizzard's gamescom presence: Aug 28, 2018 at 10:24 by Starym

Paid Loot Boxes and Chests Removed in Belgium

The anti-gambling laws we covered earlier this year, which declared loot boxes in certain games to constitute gambling in Belgium and the Netherlands, have come to pass and you can no longer buy Loot Boxes in Overwatch and Loot Chests in Heroes of the Storm in Belgium. While other gaming companies like Valve have found ways to work around the laws, with DOTA 2 in the Netherlands for example, where they show the contents of the next loot box you can buy, and you can't buy multiple boxes at once, which apparently removes the gambling aspect (even though it actually just moves it one step down the road, since you don't know what's in the next one). Blizzard have opted to just ditch Loot Boxes entirely it seems, or at least until they can find a solution themselves: Aug 27, 2018 at 20:35 by Starym 20 comments

OW League Getting a Live Weekly Show on Twitter and More

The Overwatch League and Twitter have expanded their cooperation, including almost-live highlight clips during games and, more importantly, Watchpoint, a live weekly show covering upcoming matches, with analysis match prediction and more, coming exclusively to Twitter starting in the 2019 season. Aug 23, 2018 at 17:59 by Starym

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #23

In the latest episode of our podcast, we discussed Battle for Azeroth launch and at the end of the show we interviewed John Staats, author of the World of Warcraft Diary. Aug 23, 2018 at 10:18 by Stan 2 comments

August 22nd PTR Patch Notes: Busan Map, Cosmetics Filtering and More

Here are the patch notes for the latest PTR, featuring the new control map, Busan, home of D.Va! The other big feature of the patch is a quality of life change/the most important thing ever, a cosmetics filter and search in the Hero gallery. In the Hero balance department we have big fixes for Reinhardt's Earthshatter, Brigitte's Shield Bash becoming both knock-downable and able to knock down other charging targets and Ana gets some more aim sensitivity adjustment options. The rest is the usual bug fixes and Blizzard World coming to FFA Deathmatch. Aug 22, 2018 at 20:08 by Starym 1 comment

Huge Blizzard Infographic, Best of BlizzCon Videos, Programming Reveal

Apparently it's BlizzCon season and to celebrate its start Blizzard have posted a whole lot of goodies for us to enjoy! First off there's a great "Best of BlizzCons Past" video series, that will be focusing on the great moments from former conventions, starting off with biggest surprise announcements. We can also vote for for our favorite surprise to come out of the shows. Aug 22, 2018 at 16:21 by Starym 2 comments

D.Va Animated Short: Shooting Star + Busan Map

Gamescom has begun and Blizzard have started pumping out the content already, as the new animated short is here! It splits her on-screen persona, in the Shooting Star documentary on TV, and flashbacks to her battles in the Korean military, mixing tones and, of course, ending in a battle at the end, showcasing all her in-game abilities with impressive visuals. We also get to see how exactly she self-destructs her mech for the (presumably) very first time! Aug 22, 2018 at 09:52 by Starym 6 comments

Blizzard at Gamescom: Azshara + New OW Shorts, Cosplay and More

Blizzard is heading to gamescom tomorrow, August 21st, and it's bringing a whole lot of animation with it! We're getting the now long awaited final entry in the Warbingers series, featuring Queen Azshara and a huge chunk of the Battle for Azeroth lore, where we might find out just what level of Old God involvement the expansion will have (spoiler alert: a lot). Her majesty will also be an endboss in a later raid, is the frontperson on the Blizzard gamescom art and we'll get to see the start of her BfA story in the animated short on August 24th, after the Cosplay contest that starts at 6:15 CEST (and ends at 7:00, but the short might come up a bit earlier than that)! Aug 20, 2018 at 17:34 by Starym 10 comments

Podcast #27

Wait (for BlizzCon) and see...

WoW

Azerite improvements and Patch 8.1
Hearthstone

Card nerfs, Fall Championship, and Global Games drama
Overwatch

Halloween Terror and Torbjörn rework, speculation on the future of the game
Heroes

Mal'Ganis is live, Dabiri leaves the team
General news

Morhaime retires, J. Allen Brack is the new president

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10 Sep. 2018: Winston Introduction
- Guide rewritten.
31 Jul. 2018: Reaper Introduction
- Guide updated and moved to new format.
29 Jul. 2018: Ana Introduction
- Guide added
25 Jul. 2018: Hanzo Abilities and Strategy
- Storm Arrows section updated for patch 1.26
25 Jul. 2018: Sombra Introduction
- Guide updated for patch 1.26
06 Jul. 2018: Wrecking Ball Introduction
- Guide added.
02 Jul. 2018: Symmetra Introduction
- Guide added.
29 May 2018: Pharah Introduction
- Guide updated and moved to new format.

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