Amazon has offered up a great one-day deal for Blizzard's Battle Chests, taking 50% off StarCraft, Warcraft III and Diablo bundles. Right now you can purchase StarCraft it's expansion and both strategy guides for $9.98, while the Warcraft and Diablo packages go for $19.98.
IceFrog the creator of the highly popular mod for Warcraft 3; Defense of the Ancients, announced today that he has been hired by Valve and is now managing a team there. He is supposedly working on something very special for the Dota Fans. No words yet on if it will be a dota remake of some sort or a complelty different project all together.
Blizzard has released an update for their title Warcraft III, now available for download. The patch brings the game to v1.24b bringing additions and fixes including the increase of the maximum map file size.
BlizzCon 2009 show goes live today 10:00 PST (8 PM GMT)
Blizzard Goes Crazy on Twitter!
There have been many rumors about that Ozzy Osbourne will be performing at BlizzCon 2009, well now it is confirmed by DirectTV.
Blizzard Q2 2009 Conference Call Transcript
Blizzard has released new updates for their title Warcraft III: Reigns of Chaos and it's expansion The Frozen Throne, now available for download.
A few months ago Blizzard announced their Pay per View offer which allows the viewer to watch everything BlizzCon for a fee. Today they revealed that the tournaments streams will be available through their website free of charge.
Blizzard announced today that they have identified an exploit that allows malicious software (viruses, spyware, internet explorer) to harm user's computers through custom maps in Warcraft 3.
Blizzard CEO and President Mike Morhaime evaded a question in the public Q&A during a Activision Blizzard conference call held outside the boundaries of E3 2009. Are there any plans to monetize Battle.net 2.0 service? Mike Morhaime limited to answer: "I'm not ready to talk about that today".
BeefJack writes: "Echoes of War is now available as a two disk box set containing music from Starcraft, Warcraft III, Starcraft 2, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft, Wrath of The Lich King and the unreleased Starcraft: Ghost.
Blizzard is giving away dozens of BlizzCon 2009 tickets through their official fansites.
Blizzard has just informed us that the first batch of Blizzcon tickets has now sold out. There will be a second oppertunity for those who did not manage to buy a ticket on May 30th.
Every week of April, Blizzard was kicking ass in PC sales here in the States so it's no surprise that they'd have an equally solid showing for the monthly figures. Here are the top 20 sellers for the month of April, courtesy of the NPD:
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Demigod, Dokapon Journey, The Dark Spire, the Final Fantasy XIII Demo + Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete, and Air Conflicts.
Worldofwar.net is hosting a live chat with Christie Golden, author of the latest World of Warcraft novel, Arthas.
WorthPlaying writes: "Blizzard has released new update patches for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as well as The Frozen Throne. This v1.23a upgrade fixes an custom map exploit, a patch issue with Intel Macs, and makes it compatible with Battle.net's new banner ad system."
Blizzard have just launched the first part of their new networking platform, Battle.net 2.0.
Blizzard is looking to invite one fan fiction writer from their three franchise communities to visit Blizzard headquarters, dine with the developers, meeting the lore-writing staff and receive a Frostmourne sword.