Friend request accepted! You can now chat with your Battle.net friends directly through the desktop app for Battle.net. To get started, simply look for the Friends icon in the upper-right of Battle.net the next time you log in. Clicking the icon will open up your Battle.net friends list, where you’ll be able to see their […]
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Reaper of Weekends: +50% Bonus XP This Friday thru Monday
April 4th, 2014 
Mark Over 1.5 million players around the world have stopped Death since Reaper of Souls™ launched last Tuesday, March 25. To celebrate this achievement and help support your ongoing crusade against the forces of evil, all nephalem who log into Diablo III this weekend will receive a +50% bonus to XP! This bonus XP period begins […]
Reaper of Souls™ Fan Art Contest Winners Revealed
April 4th, 2014 Mark As the days drew ever-closer for the release of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls™, artisans from around the world rallied the tools of their trade in order to portray the Heroes of Sanctuary or Malthael preparing for the coming conflict. There were over $11,000 worth of prizes and a two-night trip to Blizzard HQ in […]
Chat with Friends in the Battle.net Desktop App
April 4th, 2014 Mark Friend request accepted! You can now chat with your Battle.net friends directly through the desktop app for Battle.net. To get started, simply look for the Friends icon in the upper-right of Battle.net the next time you log in. Clicking the icon will open up your Battle.net friends list, where you’ll be able to see their […]
Chat with Friends in the Battle.net® Desktop App
April 4th, 2014 Mark Friend request accepted! You can now chat with your Battle.net friends directly through the desktop app for Battle.net. To get started, simply look for the Friends icon in the upper-right of Battle.net the next time you log in. Clicking the icon will open up your Battle.net friends list, where you’ll be able to see their […]
Warlords of Draenor™ Alpha Testing Begins
April 3rd, 2014 Mark We’ve been hard at work on World of Warcraft®: Warlords of Draenor™, and today we’ve entered the alpha phase of our expansion testing. As part of this, we’ll begin using public servers to host the data, which means you may begin seeing some datamined information show up in the usual places. One of our goals […]
Ask Creative Development – Round IV Answers
April 3rd, 2014 Mark The members of our creative development department are the curators, keepers, and custodians of our game lore and story. These caretakers work closely with the authors who write our licensed books and comics (and they’ve written stories of their own!), and collaborate with Blizzard game developers to ensure that all of our stories feature cohesive […]
Challenge Mode End of Season Early Warning *Update 4/2
April 2nd, 2014 Mark Countless adventurers continue to brave the most trying versions of Mists of Pandaria dungeons, but the clock is ticking. This “season” of Challenge Modes will be coming to an end with the upcoming release of a patch prior to the expansion’s release. Challenge Modes are designed to offer as close to a “normalized” difficulty as […]
April Fools!
April 2nd, 2014 Mark We hope you enjoyed our April Fools' Day jokes for 2014! If you missed them, check out this year's pranks below: Happy Reaper Herald of the Stars New Draenei Model and Fake Patch Notes Pajamathur Blizzard Outcasts: Vengeance of the Vanquished And so, the Blizzard Joke Squad go galumphing back whence they came, hiding amid […]
Valve loses three VR veterans in three weeks to Oculus VR
April 1st, 2014 Mark Yet another Valve virtual reality engineer has left the Half-Life company to join Oculus VR, the firm behind the Oculus Rift headset that was recently purchased by Facebook for $2 billion. Aaron Nicholls, who spent four years working on VR at Valve, is now working at Oculus VR as a “Scientist.” He’ll be working out […]
