We’re not talking about Overwatch League because my favorite underdogs — everyone’s favorite underdogs, really — the Dragons lost their latest match. So we’re ignoring Overwatch League. We’re shunning it.
Yes, we. As a group. We’re all together on this, aren’t we?
Oh. We aren’t? Okay then. I’...
2018-04-27 06:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We're just few short minutes from this week's Overwatch League kickoff, featuring my favorite underdogs the Shanghai Dragons. Will they finally eke out a win? Considering they're matching off against the Boston Uprising, which has been performing ...
2018-04-25 22:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-04-25 22:11:27 +0000 UTC View Post
After wishing you all a happy Monday yesterday, we are left with the eternal question… can a Tuesday really be happy? Sure, it’s not the first workday of the week, but it’s the day when it really hits home that you have a long slog of four whole workdays until the weekend. How discouraging.
But it is one day clo...
2018-04-25 00:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been told that wishing someone a happy Monday is grounds to contact the HR department, but fortunately we don't have an HR department. So hopefully you're all having a happy Monday, because I'm wishing you one regardless.
So what's happened today? A surprisingly small amount. But let's go over it all the same.
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe dive into Overwatch lore to discuss the lore-heavy Overwatch Retribution event. Is McCree’s in-game anger out of place? What is Talon really up to? What’s going on with Gabriel Reyes? And how does Moira fit into the picture?
For Patrons, we're happy to give you access t...
2018-04-22 22:20:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I don’t have much to add to the post I wrote earlier, except that I will definitely miss Ben Brode. And am probably going to go through most of a carton of ice cream in my grief. (But it’s Halo Top, so it’s fine.)
But let us move on to the sad, sad news of ...
2018-04-21 04:06:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm pretty sure the week is almost over, but I could be wrong. You may want to check my math on that.
But in the meanwhile, let's rundown the day's news.
Rialto map and Hanzo changes are live on the Overwatch PTR
In our last roundup post, I congratulated myself for posting Tuesday’s roundup on Tuesday. (Unlike today, where I am posting Wednesday’s roundup on Thursday morning.) “Good job, Liz!” I told myself. “What a great Tuesday this is! High-5s all around! Woo!”
What, you don’t have conversations like that with yourself...
2018-04-19 08:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-04-18 22:12:46 +0000 UTC View Post
By Ted Atchley
One of the issues the developers acknowledged during Media Day was the current faction imbalance in high end raid guilds. A quick check of Wowprogress shows o...
2018-04-18 21:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Usually I write today’s roundup so late that it’s technically tomorrow, but today is apparently the miraculous day when I’m getting this done early. Probably because it’s a slow news day. Which probably means we’ll have a landslide of news tomorrow. (Hopefully good news.)
But instead of trying to predict the future (...
2018-04-18 01:35:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m done with you, Monday. You’re over, you’re gone, it’s time to move on to the next calendar day, which— hang on, I’m getting a message from the Editor saying we have to review Monday before we can continue moving forward through time.
So to avoid getting caught in a dangerous temporal loop, let’s talk about Mo...
2018-04-17 05:37:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve arrived on Friday once again, which means it’s time to get the heck out of the office and go play some video games. But before we do, let’s take a look back on the latest news.
Blizzard is knocking it out of the park with new Druid forms
Seriously, I have no idea how we got here. But now that we’re here, we’re just going to have to deal with the fact that it’s Wednesday. The week is half-way over, and while I’m sure some of you are looking forward to the weekend, I am just thinking about all the things I haven’t gotten done yet. Like writing this post!...
2018-04-12 04:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-04-11 21:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In Warlords of Draenor, Blizzard began what they called “ability pruning.” For better or worse, the developers decided that classes just had too many buttons to press. They wanted to get back to basics, figure out which abilities were the most important for every spec, and “prune away” the rest. In some cases, t...
2018-04-11 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I admit that it's not actually BlizzCon o'clock. BlizzCon is, in fact, seven months away. But it's definitely BlizzCon announcement o'clock, and that's almost the same thing, right? Right. We're going with that.
Now let's get on with the news.
BlizzCon o'clock!
This week our Lore Watchers Anne, Matt, and Joe jump right into discussing all the details of WoW Chronicle Volume 3. Along with talking about the expansion of certain prominent characters, your emails are also discussed – and the conversation runs the gamut from Cho’gall to Maiev and back again.
For Patrons, we're h...
2018-04-08 22:18:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Wondering about that header image? Not sure who it is? Thinking it might be a Demon Hunter from Diablo 3? Well, you would be thinking wrong, because this is Tess Greymane, the newest crazy card to join Hearthstone’s Witchwood lineup.
But more on that later. Let’s run through the news, most of which i...
2018-04-07 05:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Like expansions? Because we've got some expansions for you. Specifically some expansion release dates. And other dates. And just other things! Exciting, right? Right! So let's check out what's happened today.
Battle for Azeroth arrives in August!
Overwatch League is back, and despite a lot of hope for the League's biggest underdogs, the first match between the Shanghai Dragons and the Dallas Fuel ended with a loss for Shanghai. Still, the team played well — better, I think, than we've ev...
2018-04-05 07:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-04-04 21:53:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Noblegarden has begun, and that means it is time for the annual War of the Egg. For the week, the game's starting cities will be blanketed in brightly colored eggs, while the denizens of Azeroth will fight tooth and claw to collect their holiday chocolate. Eggs spawn in set locations and once one person clicks an egg, it vanishe...
2018-04-04 07:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back, everyone! As a note, when you do not see this post, it is 100% because I have fallen asleep before I got around to writing it. But not tonight! Er... by which I mean not this morning. Because I am totally here and totally awake.
So let's get to the news.
Have you read Chronicle<...
2018-04-03 07:25:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Except now that I’ve mentioned it’s been a quiet day, I can only assume that Blizzard, watching from the shadows, will decide to announce something exciting so that I cannot step away from the blog and play Warcraft for a while. That’s usually how these things work. But maybe it’s late enough in the evening that...
2018-03-30 03:08:52 +0000 UTC View Post
There have been so many card reveals and we aren't even to the halfway point yet. As I've been updating our card post instead of Matticus, I have become entirely too familiar with the upcoming lineup and I will probably be exhausted by all things Hearthstone by the time the Witchwood expansion actually...
2018-03-29 01:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut. If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab i...
2018-03-28 22:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Are you ready for an exciting daily roundup? I hope you are because you don’t have a lot of choice in the matter. This post is here and it’s not going anywhere.
All the spoilers. All of them.
Welcome back, fellow Blizzard Watchers! Aside from the a new batch of Hearthstone cards, Blizzard hasn’t had much to say today… but that doesn’t mean we don’t have things to talk about… so let’s get down to the news.
NYXL takes this stage of Overwatch League
