The Lunar New Year is being increasingly recognized in video games outside of Asia, and few publishers are as prominent as Blizzard Entertainment when it comes to global appeal. For 2018, players can expect to see Year of the Dog festivities in Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and ...
Blizzard Entertainment are running a bunch of holiday discounts from now till early January 2018, covering their entire catalogue from World of Warcraft to Overwatch. As a reminder, Battle.net now supports gifting so why not pick out a few items for your virtual buddies? Here’s all you need to ...
Update 2.0 for Blizzard Entertainment’s Heroes of the Storm is now live, bringing the MOBA’s overarching experience more in line with that of first-person-shooter Overwatch. Yup, we’re getting Loot Chests. First on the list of changes is an overhauled progression system, tweaked to be “more frequent, meaningful, and rewarding.” ...
Registrations for the Heroes of the Storm SEA Regional Qualifier is now open until Jan. 27, 2017. The tournament is the year’s first challenge on the long road to the Heroes Global Championship, with a total prize pool of US$105,000 (S$149,000) allocated for this season alone. The SEA Regional ...
The great chasm between traditional sports and professional gaming has narrowed once more. NBA team Miami Heat has acquired a stake in eSports organization Misfits. The partnership was announced on Jan. 11 (via ESPN) and will see the basketball franchise assisting with marketing, branding, promotion, and sponsorship activation. Misfits started ...
Death isn’t the end of a beloved Blizzard character. At BlizzCon, Blizzard has shown that key characters can always come back alive in a separate IP. So fan favorite Varian Wyrnn and not-so-fan-favorite Ragnaros will become the newest characters in Heroes of the Storm. For non-Warcraft fans, Varian Wyrnn was ...
Blizzard Entertainment’s annual convention is upon us once again, delivering new reveals, insight, and tournaments related to all of their current gaming properties. For BlizzCon 2016, fans are invited to watch the opening ceremony live on the official website for the low, low cost of nothing. The hour-long ceremony ...
The local Heroes of the Storm community is gearing up to see who takes the winning spot in the Singapore Open Finals, an official cog in the vast Heroes of the Storm Global Championship machine. The offline tournament, scheduled to take place at Enzo Games this Saturday, 20 February, ...
Players will now have an easier time bolstering their Heroes of the Storm teams with the new Recruit A Friend (RAF) feature, incentivized with rewards such as heroes and an exclusive mount. The process is straight-forward: all Veterans have to do is to invite their friends through a unique ...
Blizzard Entertainment recently announced the Heroes of the Storm World Championship, detailing how regions across the globe can participate in the debut tournament series. For players in Southeast Asia that journey begins at Asiasoft’s Heroes of the Storm SEA Championship, and the first offline qualifiers kick off as early ...