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Blizzard suing Valve over DOTA trademark

Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against Valve for their registration of the "DOTA" trademark, claiming that the DOTA name is closely associated with Blizzard's IP--in particular WarCraft III, the game that the mod was developed for. "Valve seeks ... continue

Activision: Diablo III coming Q2 2012, new Call of Duty this year

To the surprise of absolutely no one in the universe, Activision confirmed in its quarterly financial report that a new Call of Duty title will be released at some point this year. Just what the game about ... continue

Crisis averted: Diablo III will have chat channels, contrary to previous statement

Earlier this month, Bashiok, Diablo III community manager, got fans up in arms when he said that public chat channels would not be in Diablo III, despite chat channels being a prominent feature in Diablo II. As it ... continue

Blizzard sends out 100,000 Diablo III beta invites

If you have yet to get into the Diablo III beta after all of this time, you may want to check your email. Blizzard sent out a massive wave of invites, about 100,000, in North America. Even if ... continue

Blizzard skipping out on BlizzCon this year

If you were looking forward to attending this year's BlizzCon event, bad news: the developer announced today that there won't be a BlizzCon event this year. Blizzard has traditionally held BlizzCon just about every year for the past ... continue

Diablo III not coming in February, Blizzard says

Best Buy caused quite a stir over the weekend after an image surfaced of an in-store ad that pegged Diablo III's release date as being February 1. Unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Blizzard shot down the news, confirming ... continue

Diablo III coming February 1, according to Best Buy ad

A couple of days ago, Blizzard launched a website celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Diablo series, and with it came a quote from Blizzard's Jay Wilson, who said that the developer was "almost done" with Diablo ... continue

Deadly Snow Storm Halts Holiday Travel

A deadly snow storm sweeping across the great plains has left at least 11 people dead, stranded skiers, and has interrupted holiday travel by shutting down major highways in five states. The Daily Mail reports that the snow ... continue

2011 VGAs: Diablo III opening cinematic revealed [Video]

Blizzard was in attendance at the 2011 Spike VGAs tonight to reveal something new for Diablo III. Before you get all excited and think it's a release date, unfortunately it isn't - but what it is is ... continue

World of Warcraft celebrates seventh birthday next week, gets a new commercial

In less than a week, November 23 to be specific, World of Warcraft will be celebrating its 7th birthday. To celebrate World of Warcraft's seven years of operation, Blizzard will be showing their appreciation for the players ... continue

Diablo III Collector’s Edition detailed, new cinematic trailer released [Video]

Diablo fans were expecting some form of Diablo III news out of BlizzCon, but what we all were really hoping for was a release date. Unfortunately, we didn't get that, but Blizzard did at least give us ... continue

Diablo III to release in early 2012

Diablo fans have been holding onto hope that Diablo III would release this year, and apparently Blizzard was hoping for the same. Unfortunately for all of us, our hopes have been dashed. Blizzard's Mike Morhaime announced by way ... continue

Diablo III closed beta available now

As some of you may have noticed if you've checked your email recently, Blizzard has officially kicked off the Diablo III closed beta, with the first wave of invites being sent out yesterday. If you didn't get into ... continue

Blizzard announces PayPal support for Diablo III, Battle.net

In news that should come as no surprise after the auction house announcement, Blizzard announced today that PayPal will be their payment-service for the Diablo III auction house. With the introduction of PayPal as an option for the ... continue

Blizzard: Diablo III beta is “very close”

Blizzard stated several times that a Diablo III public beta was due out this month, but as of yet we haven't heard so much as a peep about it from Blizzard. In a statement provided to VG247, ... continue

Blizzard DotA “flattened”, “rebooted”

Announced at last year's BlizzCon, Blizzard DotA, one of four StarCraft II mods, was originally expected to be out sometime this year - reportedly on the latter half of it. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the ... continue

Blizzard “serious” about bringing Diablo III to consoles

At a press conference at Gamescom from earlier today, Blizzard's Josh Mosqueira stated that the company is serious about bringing Diablo III over to consoles. Not just serious, though - they're "very, very serious about bringing the Diablo ... continue