Diablo 3 auction house taken offline after gold dupe is discovered

Diablo 3 auction house taken offline after gold dupe is discovered

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 08 May

Along with the game’s “always on” DRM, Diablo 3′s in-game auction house, which lets players buy items with real money in addition to in-game gold, has always been one of the game’s more controversial features. The auction house was taken offline today following the discovery of a gold duplication exploit that completely destroyed the delicate [...]

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Blizzard adds the Warhound back into Starcraft II just for April Fool’s Day

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 01 Apr

Blizzard has decided to add the Terran’s infamously unbalanced Warhound unit from the Heart of the Swarm beta back into Starcraft II… sort of.

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Retro Round-Up: 15 Years of Starcraft

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog, Console News, PC On: 30 Mar

Retro Round-Up is a regular feature that takes a look at what’s new in the world of old games. The original Starcraft turns fifteen in just a few days, so now seemed like as good of a time as any to take a look back on Blizzard’s monumental RTS.

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Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm review

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: PC, Reviews On: 17 Mar

If you’re into Starcraft, chances are you’ve already bought the latest expansion pack. If you’re not into Starcraft, well, now is a good time to jump in, because Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm makes getting addicted to Blizzard’s flagship RTS even easier than ever.

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Upcoming Diablo III Patch Will Focus On Improved Co-op

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 08 Mar

Over on the battle.net forums, senior technical designer Wyatt Cheng took to assuaging player concerns over the current state of Diablo III’s co-op. At the moment, it appears that adding more players to assist in resource farming slows everything down to the point where it’s actually less productive to work together. Sounds… counterintuitive to say [...]

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New AMA from Blizzard Answers Your StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Questions

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 07 Mar

Just yesterday, a few of StarCraft’s developers took to Reddit for an “Ask Me Anything” session with the fans. Afterwards, Blizzard posted a neater version of the transcript as a Q&A on the Battle.net blog. Here is a brief rundown of some key questions, with a few interspersed throughout which I found particularly amusing. First [...]

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Diablo 3 will be playable offline on Playstation 3 and 4

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3 On: 26 Feb

One of the worst things about Diablo 3 was how it required players to be online at all times: this meant you couldn’t play if the servers were busy, you couldn’t play it on a laptop if you were on the go, and it’d cause the game to lag, even if you were playing by [...]

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First Diablo III PS3 Screens and Details

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 21 Feb

One of the most shocking announcements of last night’s PS4 conference was the new partnership between Sony and Blizzard Entertainment, leading to the reveal that Diablo III would be headed to both the PS3 and PS4 sometime in the near future. Today, courtesy of Blizzard’s latest press release, we have some new details about how the port [...]

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Diablo 3, Destiny, new Final Fantasy coming to PS4

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 20 Feb

A new console isn’t worth much if it doesn’t have any games, so in addition to giving us our first look at the PS4′s unique hardware and social features today, Sony also had a few developers on hand to reveal the titles that they’re developing for the brand new Playstation.

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World of Warcraft Patch 5.2 “The Thunder King” Now Available for Public Beta

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, PC On: 06 Feb

For those waiting on the chance to test World of Warcraft’s latest patch, you’re in luck. The patch is now available for testing in the game’s Public Test Realm. There are a whole lot of class adjustments in this patch, but feature wise there are a few noteworthy points to address. There’s a new Quest [...]

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YouTube Tuesday: Heart of the Swarm Opening Cinematic Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 22 Jan

Say what you like about their games (I have on many occasions) no one quite puts a cinematic together these days like Blizzard. In fact, they’re the ones who really pushed the envelope on in-game cinematics years ago. It’s no surprise that after almost 20 years the teasers and trailers for many of their games [...]

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Embattled D3 Director, Jay Wilson, Steps Down To Work on Unknown Project Inside Blizzard

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 17 Jan

In a message today on the Battle.net forums, Jay Wilson, Diablo III’s Director, said that he will be stepping down as Director, moving to another un-named project inside Blizzard. He did acknowledge some of the problems that have plagued Diablo III from the start, namely the original difficulty in farming for high quality items to [...]

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