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Beyond the nostalgia, Vanilla WoW’s return may combat our social media crisis

legacy servers (and to, ahem, stop shutting down illegal private servers), the game’s relaunch was announced last November at BlizzCon 2017. Objectively, World of Warcraft’s original iteration is...

The rise, fall and frustration of the Zealots

not better than before. Our challenge is to make it work before it’s too late so we can make it to the playoffs and make it to BlizzCon, if that’s still possible.” While two talented players were...

Team USA announces final seven-player roster

competition roster - via @USAOWWC The lineup features only two returning players from the USA’s 2017 World Cup roster, sinatraa and Rawkus, who qualified for BlizzCon before being eliminated by South...

BBJ’s mom: “Just because we don’t understand it, doesn’t mean this isn’t a possibility.”

: We have our eyes set on that number one auto-bid for BlizzCon, for sure. That’s the goal. If we can auto-bid and not have to worry about playoff stress and then just practice really hard going into BlizzCon, that’d be ideal....

Incheon, Los Angeles, Bangkok, and Paris: Overwatch World Cup Group stage to be played around the world.

compete in the Overwatch World Cup Top 8 at BlizzCon 2018 in November. With the deadline for each team to submit their final rosters coming soon, it is still anyone's game with many pro-players still...

From APEX to World Cup: Here is a Brief History of Competitive Overwatch

money. And then, the final matches of Second Overwatch World Cup were played in Blizzcon. The first match would be Team U.S.A. facing off against Team Korea. A match that should have been the finals...

Speed running may be the key to bigger World of Warcraft Esports

BlizzCon 2017 Arena World Champions reportedly peaked at 79,865 views. MDI reaching similar numbers during its very first major event (without the benefit of a BlizzCon backdrop) is an impressive...

Australia's 2018 World Cup roster unites familiar talent and fresh faces

BlizzCon stage. The smart decision-making ofBertlog, a main support, was similarly unexpected by the committee, and he is joined on the World Cup roster by his Sydney Drop Bears teammate, Quatz. The...

XQQ, Coach of the strongest team in Japan: "New Symmetra would definitely change the game to Overwatch 2."

there anything else you want to let our Western readers know about Team Japan? We’re going to BlizzCon through this painful group stage. Please support us! If you want to know any information about Team Japan 2018, please follow @owwcjp2018 on Twitter!...

Sake: "In my time as a pro-gamer,  even winning BlizzCon, this was the toughest day ever in my career."

winning BlizzCon, this was the toughest day ever in my career," said Sake through a translator. Tempo Storm, Ballistix, Tempest, Fnatic and Dignitas make up the top teams from each region and Gen.G was...

Q&A With Riot Games Ariel Horn, Global Executive Producer: "Presenting Esports like a legitimate traditional sport."

wasn’t sure what I would find to be honest but met some people at Blizzard in 2009 and signed up to produce their fledgeling BlizzCon esports stages that year. Even though the production back then...

Warcraft 3 marches on with its slow but steady resurgence.

Warcraft movie (largely panned by U.S. audiences) was an incredible financial success almost completely off the back of China's adoration of it. A classic pattern. At last years Blizzcon, Blizzard...

The Hearthstone Heroes Reynad & Kranich Reveal the Secret to Success for Games Aiming to Become Esports at the IGEC

answer to this question by inviting Hak-jun “Kranich” Baek, the winner of BlizzCon tournament, and Andrey “Reynad” Yanyuk, a first generation Hearthstone pro and owner of the first professional...

Thank you, Ben Brode. For everything.

infectious laugh. ▲Ben Brode guiding an enthralled BlizzCon audience through a dungeon His genuine, kid-in-a-candy-story enthusiasm did not prevent Brode from addressing serious concerns when needed. Candidly...

OWL's Very Own Voldemort?: Controversy Regarding OGE and His Past

previous champion of StarCraft 2, had his name removed from the Blizzcon trophy for taking part in match-fixing. Fissure, who moved to the LA Gladiators, tweeted “If they know that they’ve caused harm to...

Hakjun “Kranich” Baek: the Hearthstone player who proves that skills matter more than RNG

everything in Hearthstone. He was first recognized as a Hearthstone player when he made it to the Round of 16 in the CN vs. KR Masters Season 2 and became the representative of Korea in the BlizzCon...

Multiple Unfortunate Events Occuring in the OWL: Who is it to Blame?

In 2016, when the ‘Overwatch League (OWL)’ was first introduced at BlizzCon, a lot of video game journalists including myself were skeptical. OWL was hosted by the development company and was based...

Lead Hero Designer: "We want to get more Support heroes out there."

were on the Starcraft 2 team and we originally made it as a custom map for Starcraft 2 really just to show off the editor. Through the support of the community, we showed it at Blizzcon and they were...

Explore, Claim Resources, and Battle for Your Faction: World of Warcraft Interview

say. When we hit max level, we introduce the raid, we want to have those bosses be tuned to where they will be challenging for that. Lore-wise, it is quite less powerful than the old gods. At BlizzCon...

Halorin: "I’m not my skin color, I’m just a person like anyone else."

was watching the Blizzcon that year and I thought “Wow, I have never really seen anything like this before. A world stage spectacle over a video game? This is pretty cool.” The casters were so...