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Announced at BlizzCon 2026
STARCRAFT
An original open-world shooter. Return to the Koprulu Sector.
Blizzard has named a season, not a day. The clock counts to 1 March 2030, the earliest day that counts as spring, so it runs out when Blizzard's window opens rather than on a release day nobody has announced. Blizzard's announcement
Overwatch w/Devs: Doctrine, Grimsvötn, Reworks, and More | Official XBOX Podcast
On this episode of the Official XBOX Podcast, we’re at BlizzCon and sitting down with the Overwatch team to talk all about Season 5’s newest hero:…
World of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated beta
Blizzard says it's working on getting everyone in as soon as possible.
Diablo 4's anniversary event brings back the game's most iconic location, and boy that music is sending me
Tristram is back, baby, and the level of detail Blizzard has put into this recreation is genuinely impressive.
Watch Point It Out! Episode 4, the Big Blizzcon Breakdown
On the latest episode of Point It Out!, Polygon's SImone de Rochefort and Giovanni Colantonio unpack an announcement-filled Blizzcon.
WoW Forever dataminers have dug up set bonuses, which are interesting even on low-level gear
Armor up!
Login errors delay Diablo 4's big new Season of Hell's Legacy anniversary update
The launch of Diablo 4 's Season of Hell's Legacy got off to a rough start. The anticipated season was announced at BlizzCon over the weekend to…
World of Warcraft: Forever beta launch times: How to sign up and play Blizzard's twist on WoW Classic
Here's how to get an early taste at the classic-ish MMO.
Bad news for shaman tank hopefuls—World of Warcraft: Forever won't have Season of Discovery's zany class design just yet: 'But never say never, y'know'
Forever, not never.
"What would a WoW 2 give you that World of Warcraft: Forever isn't already giving you?" - Blizzard addresses the MMO elephant in the room
Blizzard's decision to reveal far-away release dates for Diablo 5 (2029) and the new open-world StarCraft shooter (2030) at this year's BlizzCon…
Everything we've gleaned about Diablo 5 since its BlizzCon 2026 reveal - a game that appears to be much more than Diablo 4.5
I knew going into BlizzCon 2026 that we'd get some Diablo news, but I expected a Diablo 4 expansion introducing a new Baal storyline, not Diablo 5.
In a big change for Blizzard, it sounds like the new StarCraft shooter won't be a live-service game
Blizzard has revealed more tangible details about what the new StarCraft game actually is, beyond it being an open-world shooter due for release in…
Diablo 4 was basically an MMO, will Diablo 5 follow suit? Blizzard is being coy for now
The announcement of Diablo 5 at BlizzCon over the weekend was among the fan event's highlights.
Blizzard explains why it's revealing StarCraft and Diablo 5 release dates so far away: "We want to convey confidence in some of our biggest bets"
Blizzard uncharacteristically announced two games at the weekend with release dates surprisingly far away.
Blizzard confirms no more Diablo 4 expansions from now until Diablo 5's release
One of the biggest questions that emerged following the surprise reveal of Diablo 5 at BlizzCon over the weekend surrounded the future of Diablo 4.
Diablo 4's new season brings back Deckard Cain and all three Prime Evils as the game arrives on Switch 2
Diablo 4 's next season, Season of Hell's Legacy, will go live on 15th September to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary and Nintendo Switch 2…
The World of Warcraft "Classic+" rumours were true and it's called World of Warcraft: Forever
Blizzard has officially confirmed World of Warcraft: Forever, the long-rumoured "Classic+" experience.
StarCraft is back, but it's not the RTS you remember - it's an open-world shooter coming spring 2030
Blizzard's next StarCraft game will be an original open-world shooter and it's coming spring 2030.
Everything announced in the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony
UPDATE 13TH SEPTEMBER: Below you'll find a blow-by-blow account of everything announced during yesterday's BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony.
Blizzard Confirms Diablo 5 Details, Players Share a "Unique Bond" With Diablo Himself
Diablo 5 is officially targeting a Spring 2029 release window, and the studio is now filling in story details about the world players will inhabit.
Diablo 5 Officially Revealed at BlizzCon 2026, Arrives Spring 2029
Blizzard has officially announced Diablo 5 at BlizzCon 2026, confirming a Spring 2029 release window for the next mainline entry in its action RPG…
Blizzard is aware Overwatch fans are tired of seeing its fanciest skins go to the same heroes and it's 'the number one' thing it's working to fix next
Lucio hasn't been forgotten, don't worry.
Diablo IV Apparently Has No More Expansions Planned In Lead Up To Diablo V's Release
But Blizzard says support will continue for a "very long time". Last week, Blizzard lifted the lid on Diablo V, announcing the fifth major entry in…
The World of Warcraft servers you can buy on eBay, and why Blizzard sold them
Collectors are asking up to C$500,000 for the machines that ran World of Warcraft's early realms. They were not a BlizzCon announcement: Blizzard sold them for charity in 2011, 2012 and 2019.
"Diablo 5 is a new game, it gives us the freedom to start with a really big idea." — Why a sequel should have you excited for Diablo 4 too
Fresh from BlizzCon, an exclusive 15-minute interview with Diablo 5 Senior Producer and Art Director breaks down the bombshell announcement of the…
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Battle net later this year, and Overwatch gets an Edgerunners collaboration
CDPR brings Cyberpunk 2077 to Battle.net, plus an Overwatch Edgerunners collab and Diablo 4 Geralt skin
Why is World of Warcraft Forever adding another elf race? I asked Blizzard. The answer is probably what you might expect.
World of Warcraft's new "Skyborne" elf race is causing some controversy in the WoW community, many of whom are tired of Blizzard's apparent love of…
Warcraft 3 is getting a new expansion after over 23 years called the "Forsaken Kingdom" and it is available today for PC
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that Warcraft 3, one of its most beloved real-time strategy games, is getting a new expansion after 23 years…
'World of Warcraft Forever' is Blizzard's take on Classic+, revamping vanilla Azeroth in new ways for perpetual expansion
World of Warcraft Forever is Blizzard's long-rumored "Classic+" take, designed to keep Warcraft's old-school social-first gameplay intact while…
Blizzard announces Diablo 5 and it's coming sooner than you think
Blizzard announced Diablo V for Spring 2029, set in a post-apocalyptic Sanctuary where Diablo has won.
The Amazon returns: Diablo 4 roadmap reveals new class, Netflix adaptation and Nintendo Switch 2 port
Diablo 4 gets a new class and a Nintendo Switch 2 port!
Overwatch introduces a new vampiric hero, Doctrine, and is bringing two massive reworks for Roadhog and Sombra, a new map, and more
Blizzard Entertainment has announced a new hero called Doctrine, two reworks for Roadhog and Sombra, a new map set in Iceland, and more new features…
'STARCRAFT' revealed at Blizzcon: The squad shooter is coming in 2030, and here's the first cinematic
StarCraft is back after over a decade in cryo-stasis. Revealed at BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard showcased a bombastic cinematic trailer, although we'll be…
Blizzard revives 'Heroes of the Storm,' starting with new hero Xal'atath
Blizzard's "maintenance mode" MOBA is getting its first new hero in years in the form of Warcraft's big current antagonist.
CD Projekt Red Expands Onto Battle.net, Offers New Geralt Skin For Diablo 4
CD Projekt Red is bringing its games to Battle.net. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered was announced for the platform at Gamescom, and Cyberpunk…
Diablo 5 is coming spring 2029, and a Netflix show is in development
Blizzard has officially announced Diablo 5, confirming the next mainline entry in the series is expected to arrive in spring 2029.
Almost 1,900 Blizzard workers vote through a "historic" union contract securing protections against layoffs and gen-AI
Around 1,900 unionised workers at Blizzard Entertainment have voted to ratify their first contract with the World of Warcraft publisher after years…
StarCraft Returns as an Open-World Shooter, Set for 2030
Blizzard has confirmed a new StarCraft game during the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony, thus ending a wait that stretched back to StarCraft II's last…
IllustrationCompiled Agency: Frontier General-Purpose Coding Agents Build Winning Game Players from Bare Interaction - from Flappy Bird to StarCraft II and Civilization
LLM agents have repeatedly struggled to convert knowledge of a game into competent play, even when researchers build the agent around the model -…