76 articles tagged with “Activision Blizzard”
Infinity Ward's new studio heads have posted a mission statement promising the "definitive Modern Warfare" experience, with a full reveal likely coming during the Xbox Games Showcase on June 7.
Blizzard drops a round of WoW hotfixes that pull the cap off upgrade Crests and Conquest, and take a scalpel to Mythic Midnight Falls tuning.
Blizzard has pushed out a hotfix for Diablo 4 today, targeting issues introduced in the 3.0.2 update. Here's what's been addressed.
Blizzard's latest Hearthstone patch buffs underperforming Class Set cards and overhauls Battlegrounds with minion, spell, and trinket changes across the board.
Fortnite's Overwatch collaboration dropped this week, and somehow the biggest talking point isn't the maps, the weapons, or D.Va. It's Tracer's butt. Again.
Sektori slipped past most people when it launched last November. A Switch 2 release gives one of 2025's best arcade shooters a second chance at the audience it deserves.
Blizzard's own 10th anniversary event landed so flat that Fortnite's Overwatch collab became the real celebration, and game director Aaron Keller had to publicly acknowledge the criticism.
Ranked Play Forfeit is back and Totenreich's nastiest progression bugs are gone in today's Black Ops 7 update.
Blizzard drops a tank-focused hotfix pass alongside a PvP rating fix and several Prey system improvements.
The 10th Anniversary patch brings hero balance across the board, a reworked Initiator subrole, and a community-driven lootbox event running until June 1.
Overwatch 2's 10th Anniversary update brings a Kiriko Suzu rework, Mercy mobility revert, and a big Initiator subrole overhaul alongside seasonal celebrations.
Blizzard drops a balance patch with notable changes to Arthas, Gazlowe, and the Haunted Mines map, plus a raft of long-overdue bug fixes.
Blizzard's lead class designer revealed the team's surprisingly physical litmus test for making the Warlock feel distinct from Diablo 4's other spellcasters: who would win in a fist fight?
Blizzard drops a multi-day hotfix batch covering class tuning, dungeon bugs, and a Mistweaver heal that was quietly failing.
Diablo 4's 3.0.2 patch lands May 13 with a major Storm Shephard rework, sweeping Talisman fixes, and a long list of War Plan corrections.
Lord of Hatred's Horadric Cube has completely upended Diablo 4's trade economy, turning items players used to trash into multi-billion gold listings.
Defeating the Cow King wasn't the end. A mysterious quest item called Prime Rib has Diablo 4's secret hunters convinced something much bigger is waiting.
Blizzard's latest Diablo 4 micro-patch targets a crash affecting the Paladin Free Trial on Battle.net, arriving a day after Hotfix 5 wrapped up the bulk of 3.0.1's fixes.
Blizzard pushed Hotfix 5 for Diablo 4 on May 5, bringing another round of targeted fixes under the 3.0.1 banner.
Six years. That's how long Call of Duty kept shipping on PS4 hardware after the PS5 launched. Activision has finally confirmed the next entry is current-gen only.
Blizzard pushes sweeping class tuning across World of Warcraft: Midnight, pulling back Unholy Death Knight and Guardian Druid while giving Marksmanship Hunter and Outlaw Rogue a serious shot in the arm.
Black Ops 7's Season 03 Reloaded update quietly addresses some frustrating Endgame and Zombies bugs alongside a Strider 300 fix that nearly slipped through the cracks.
Six years after Warcraft 3: Reforged effectively held the original game hostage, Blizzard has quietly made the pre-Reforged client available on Battle.net again.
Patch 35.4 brings Class Sets to Restoration of Azeroth, a fresh Dual Class Arena season, and fixes for some nasty card interaction bugs.
A leaker claims Activision is playtesting Modern Warfare 4 on the PlayStation 4, a console that launched in 2013. If it ships there, every version of the game pays the price.
Blizzard keeps the post-launch fixes rolling for Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion with Hotfix 4, the latest in a busy run of 3.0.1 updates.
A three-item barbarian combo let players stack Limitless Rage over 15,000 times, dealing quadrillions of damage and trivializing Diablo 4's hardest content. Blizzard killed it within hours.
Blizzard's newest housing exterior costs 4,000 Hearthsteel, roughly $40 in real money, and the full bundle runs $75. This arrives barely a week after housing was literally turned off due to game-breaking bugs.
Blizzard drops another small hotfix for Diablo 4 today, following a busy week of post-launch patches for the Lord of Hatred expansion.
Warzone's mid-season update brings back Hot Pursuit, introduces Spikes to Buy Stations, and previews a significant anti-cheat requirement tied to TPM and Secure Boot.
Blizzard rolls out hotfixes across WoW: Midnight and Classic, with Warlock and Mage getting the most attention alongside a dungeon timer bump for Algeth'ar Academy.
A small but targeted hotfix lands for Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion. Here's what Blizzard addressed.
Diablo 4's latest hotfix corrects a loot filter issue that was quietly hiding your highest-rolled items. Here's what changed.
Patch 35.2.2 keeps Standard mostly intact while Battlegrounds gets a significant overhaul, including Dragon buffs, Elemental nerfs, and a reworked Ship Jumper.
Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion is sitting at an 84 on Metacritic, but many players spent launch day staring at queue timers instead of playing it.
Peter Berg called Call of Duty players pathetic and weak in a 2013 interview. Now he's directing the franchise's first movie for Paramount.
Blizzard rolls out hotfixes across WoW: Midnight and Classic, with Marksmanship Hunter taking a significant PvP hit and Unholy Death Knight getting some structural rework.
WoW's patch 12.0.5 launched with broken bonus rolls, an exploitable prop hunt mode, a busted housing system, and an unkillable raid boss. Blizzard says it will "do better," but players are asking whether the studio's eight-week patch cadence is the real problem.
Mike Ybarra, former Blizzard boss and Xbox corporate VP, says World of Warcraft will 'continue to decline' without a firm reset. His comments land as Blizzard scrambles to fix one of the worst patches in recent memory.
Christopher McQuarrie and Michael B. Jordan are attached to a Battlefield movie currently being pitched to studios, putting the franchise on a collision course with Paramount's Call of Duty film.
Blizzard's associate game director admits at least one item in Lord of Hatred is "basically useless" by design, and the Horadric Cube is the reason why.
Blizzard announced subscription price increases for World of Warcraft in the UK, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, all while patch 12.0.5 remains a mess and housing sits disabled in multiple regions.
A balance hotfix lands for Overwatch 2, adjusting Roadhog, Sombra, and a swathe of Stadium heroes whose win rates drifted further than Blizzard intended.
A balance hotfix lands for Overwatch 2, targeting win rate outliers from Season 2's start and reining in some Stadium builds that have gotten out of hand.
Blizzard drops a pre-expansion patch that reshapes every Gem in the game and cleans up a long list of bugs before Lord of Hatred arrives.
Microsoft slashed Game Pass prices and pulled Call of Duty from day-one launches. Reports now suggest a 'pick your own plan' model is in the works, and it could reshape the entire subscription.
Blizzard's 12.0.5 update pushes the Midnight story forward with new open-world activities, a gear upgrade system, and a hide-and-seek mini-game in Silvermoon City.
Microsoft is cutting Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 per month, but the trade-off is losing day-one access to Call of Duty. New entries will arrive about a year after launch instead.
Blizzard has dropped a full developer update for the Lord of Hatred expansion, covering everything from new Class Skill Trees to the returning Horadric Cube.
Blizzard has activated the Joyous Journeys experience buff in Mists of Pandaria Classic, giving players a 50% XP boost up to level 90 until the next content update.
Arthas is fully reworked, Haunted Mines is back in Quick Match, and Unranked Mode has been quietly removed in today's Heroes of the Storm update.
A quick balance hotfix lands for Overwatch 2 Legacy, targeting new damage hero Sierra just days after her Season 2 debut.
Playground Games is getting cinematic backup from the team behind Diablo and Overwatch's legendary cutscenes. For a studio making its first RPG, that's a smart call.
After over a decade of false starts and indefinite hiatuses, the live-action Call of Duty movie finally has a concrete release date: June 30, 2028.
A cosmetic spray you can buy with CoD points is doing more to fight AI aimbots in Black Ops 7 than Activision's own anti-cheat system. The clip has over a million views.
Paramount revealed a June 2028 release date for the Call of Duty movie at CinemaCon, then showed a sizzle reel that was almost entirely game footage set to Seven Nation Army.
WoW's 12.0.5 update pushes deeper into the Midnight story with new world activities, a targeted loot system via the Voidforge, and a hide-and-seek minigame in Silvermoon City.
Blizzard's April 13 hotfixes bring meaningful class tuning and some overdue dungeon fixes to World of Warcraft: Midnight and Classic.
Overwatch hits Switch 2 today with 60fps in both docked and handheld modes, a massive upgrade over the original Switch version. Season 2 of Reign of Talon launches alongside it.
Battlegrounds Season 13 kicks off tomorrow with Trinkets, two new heroes, and a pair of new keywords. Here's everything in Patch 35.2.
A $300 million loss in potential sales from Black Ops 6 is reportedly forcing Microsoft to rethink whether Call of Duty belongs on Game Pass at launch.
Ten years of internet mythology, killed in one sentence. Jeff Kaplan confirms Blizzard never actually nerfed Tracer's butt, they just changed a pose.
Blizzard has pushed a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes, with the April 7 changes doing the heavy lifting across tanks and DPS specs.
Blizzard has dropped a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes covering class balance, dungeon fixes, and a notable Sun Darter Hatchling bug rescue.
Hearthstone 35.0.3 is live today, and Druid is taking the brunt of it, three cards nerfed as Blizzard moves to break up the class's grip on the post-CATACLYSM meta.
Blizzard has dropped the Hearthstone 4.1.26 patch, and given today's date, it is exactly what you'd expect.
Blizzard has dropped the 3.1.2 client patch for Diablo II: Resurrected's Reign of the Warlock season, targeting crashes, UI issues, and a handful of Warlock-specific bugs.
Overwatch 2's March 31 update is a targeted bug fix patch, wiping replay codes and squashing three specific issues that have been frustrating players in Stadium and beyond.
Diablo 4's 2.6.1 patch lands March 24 with a significant Bloodsoaked Sigil difficulty reduction and a long list of Season of Slaughter fixes.
Blizzard has pushed a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes, and Unholy Death Knights are taking the biggest hit with an across-the-board 20% damage reduction.
Warzone Season 02 Reloaded arrives March 11, headlined by Black Ops Royale, a new mode built around the Avalon map with no loadouts, Wingsuits replacing parachutes, and a reworked health system.
Hearthstone Patch 35.0 goes live tomorrow, clearing the board ahead of CATACLYSM with balance hits to several Standard overperformers and a wave of Wild reversions.
Battlefield 6 sold 7 million copies in three days and topped the US sales charts for all of 2025. EA's response was to cut staff at every single studio that built it.
Diablo 4's 2.6.0 update drops March 11 and it's a meaty one, bringing Bloodstained Sigils, a reworked stagger system, and a fresh batch of class-spanning uniques.
Blizzard's next Diablo 4 season has one mechanic that actually matters: kill enough demons fast enough and you stop being the hunter. You become the Butcher.
Activision hit TheGhostOfHope with a legal demand to stop leaking Call of Duty information today. Then the official CoD account went on Twitter and twisted the knife.