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Blizzard "does not seek such damages as a “punitive” measure against Bossland or to obtain an unjustified windfall."

Blizzard is suing a company that makes cheats for its games for more than $8.5 million.  The company, Bossland, creates cheats and hacks for many of Blizzard’s titles, and sells them online. Blizzard argues that this is copyright infringement, unfair competition, and violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. They also claim …

Blizzard has announced that Blizzcon 2017 will take place on November 3rd and 4th 2017 and will once again return to the Anaheim Convention Center.  The two day event will, as ever, feature panels with developers discussing all aspects of their games, hands on with new updates and potentially entire …

After a major drought of European Overwatch tournaments finally a new one has been announced with a $15,000 prize pool.  The Overwatch Pit Championship is actually two different events, one for Europe and one for North America. The two regions will each have a $15,000 prize pool and there will …

Blizzard has confirmed that the price of cards packs for Hearthstone is to increase from March 22nd, and the UK in particular is in for a rough time. The prices, which apply to PC, Mac and Android, were announced on the Battle.net forums. The European price is going up by …

Blizzard has announced a big boost to the competitive World of Warcraft scene with a massive $280,000 prize pool for the World Championships.  Warcraft Arena eSports has kept growing over recent years, with big name organisations such as Splyce entering the scene. This has seen the community grow significantly and …

Despite being out for almost a year at this point there has never been a Blizzard backed Overwatch tournament in the South East Asian region, until now.  The Overwatch SEA tournament is open to players from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand and features a $5,000 prize pool, which …

Overwatch’s latest hero has been released on the PTR.  Orisa is a member of the tank class, and seems to be more in the Reinhardt school of tanks than any other. Orisa’s abilities make it sound like she is focused on absorbing a lot of damage and boosting her allies …

When Blizzard revealed the latest Hearthstone expansion fans were generally quite happy, and all seemed good in the world. Then someone noticed that the announcement trailer didn’t have a song in it and all hell broke loose. Fortunately a thread on Reddit about the lack of a song caught the …

A massive $600,000 is being committed to the Overwatch Premier Series over in China.  Blizzard’s decision to announce the Overwatch League incredibly early on in the preparation stage has somewhat backfired, as outside of the APEX league over in Korea there has been a significant lack of competition in the …