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Log in for a few hours with Diablo 3 this week and you’ll be rewarded with increased XP gain and magic find, in celebration of the RPG’s first birthday.

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Blizzard has dated the regional final bouts for its inaugural StarCraft 2 World Championship Series.

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Blizzard has identified 415 Diablo 3 players who took advantage of last week’s gold multiplying exploit, and will be diverting their profits directly to a good cause.

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Blizzard really seems to have taken the first console port of Diablo 3 seriously, making significant changes to interface and controls, as well as gameplay itself.

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If you’ve already made up your mind to pick up Diablo 3 when it makes its console debut later this year, you can score bonus items by slapping a pre-order down.

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Bill Westenhofer has signed on as visual effects director for the Warcraft movie, fresh from winning a 2013 Academy Award for Life of Pi.

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Blizzard’s free-to-play card battler Heartstone: Heroes of Warcraft seems simple, but it’s probably one of those things that prove difficult to master at high level. Maybe this shoutcasted match between a Mage and Shaman will give you an idea of the strategies and knowledge you’ll need to command to be successful.

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World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has confirmed that its incoming 5.3 patch will bolster the game’s Brawler’s Guild with new bosses a challenge card system and more.

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Major League Gaming is hosting the North American arm of the StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, and has detailed the first of three planned seasons this year.

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Blizzard has announced a feature-limited in-game browser to replace its current support system. Pulling it up will take you straight to the Battle.net Support site. Blizzard has never implemented such a system before and is looking for testers to check it out on the public test realm and make sure it’s working properly before going live; more details are available in a developer blog post.

Thanks, Blue’s News.

Blizzard has purchased the IGN Pro League, acquiring all assets and technology, and finding a new role for affected staff.

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StarCraft: Ghost was one of the more prolific vapourware legends of generations past. It was an action-based take on Blizzard’s strategy world, and after what seemed to be a torturous development hell it was canned. Developer Matthew Burger has poured fuel on the rumour fire.

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Blizzard has announced big changes for this year’s StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, including a whopping prize pool of $1.6 million.

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StarCraft 2 director Dustin Browder and his team had doubts that the game could prove a popular eSports hit outside of South Korea. However, as we now know it’s doing every well in the Western circuit, but for a while it was a real concern at Blizzard.

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Diablo 3 item duping has been culled by developer Blizzard. It’s a process that saw players giving items to a mate and then having tech support roll back their character to spawn the items over and over again. No more, however.

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World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has outlined big PvP changes in its 5.3 update. Although the patch has yet to be dated, the studio has spooled off a big list of changes inbound.

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Diablo 3 won’t have an auction house on PlayStation 3, but it will still allow you to trade for specific gear.

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A new job ad suggests Blizzard is planning a “next generation Battle.net Desktop Client on OS X”. That’s probably only of interest to those of you with powerful enough office Macs to sneak in a few quick World of Warcraft quests between meetings, but it’s interesting that it’s described as a “next-gen” client. To enter the remote realm of Wild Speculation for a few minutes, perhaps Blizzard will appear at an Apple event showcasing a new iMac range, or launch a universal client across Mac, PC and consoles with Diablo 3. Back in reality: oh good, a better Battle.net client for Macs.

Thanks, Superannuation.

Diablo 3 developer Blizzard is playing around with the idea of letting players customise their item stats. It may be possible to reduce some stats of a certain item in order to give others a boost. Either way, the studio is considering it.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm may have released on March 12, but many outlets have taken extra time and care with their reviews. Now that there are more out in the wild, we’ve corralled them all here for your reading pleasure.

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