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"Cole Cassidy" rides into Overwatch next week, and you can change your BattleTag.

FPS and IP development also mentioned among preferred skills.

Also, McCree renaming will take a while, is a 'pretty complicated project.'

Next season starts in April.

Brazilian voice actress Christiane Louise, who lent her talents to the Portuguese versions of several popular video game characters, was found dead last week at the age of 49.

Activision Blizzard revealed its financial results for Q2 2021 yesterday, but most people weren't half as interested in the numbers as they were for the company's response to its recent barrage of bad news.

Overwatch probably isn't going free-to-play any time soon, despite the fevered predictions of many an internet pundit.

Apex Legends Season 8 arrives on February 2, and it's going to be an explosive update -- literally.

Activision-Blizzard announced its second-quarter financial results for 2020 (covering April, May, and June), and they look very good.

Rumored on Friday, confirmed truth on Monday, Valorant is Riot's "Project A," and it's a pretty much what we expected: a 5v5 tactical shooter with multiple rounds, CS:GO-style, and a cast of characters with colorful abilities.

When I wrote about the top free-to-play gaming news stories of 2019, I put the Hearthstone Blitzchung controversy at #1.

Once again, real life intrudes on video games.

Let's add some Overwatch to the ongoing Hearthstone drama, shall we?...

Jagex has some new high-level hires, and they're be set to work on RuneScape, as well as other projects.

There hasn't been any notable bad news or protests related to the Blizzard and the whole Hong Kong fiasco since last week -- and the company plans to keep it that way. As Rod Breslau reports, Blizzard will not have post-mat...

“Life comes at you fast” has rarely seemed like a more appropriate cliche.

Epic isn't just snatching games for its store -- it's also pilfering people. Nate Nanzer, the commissioner and co-founder of the Overwatch League, will be departing Activision Blizzard for a role with Epic Games, to work on...

City of Heroes is coming back!...

"Almost free-to-play" is probably pushing it, but that's the title that Edge Magazine (via GamesRadar) decided to go with when talking about Anthem in an interview with BioWare's Jonathan Warner and Ben Irving.

Back in 2015, I made a few predictions about MMORPGs that I thought had a chance – even if only a slim one – of going free-to-play.

Gaming industry analyst Michael Pachter has never been shy about making predictions.

We don't usually report on games that are temporarily free-to-play (Should we?...

Belgium has said that card packs in Electronic Arts' FIFA games are gambling.

Earlier today, Blizzard posted on the forums for Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch to say that paid loot boxes for both games will soon be disabled for gamers in Belgium.

Following on the heels of the legal re-classification of loot boxes in The Netherlands, the Belgian Gaming Commission has brought down the banhammer on loot boxes in four games. MMORPG.com has in part translated a statement...

And so it begins. Eurogamer is reporting that the Dutch Gaming Authority has declared that loot boxes in Dota 2, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Rocket League, and FIFA 18 are gambling and their developers must acquire gambl...

It seems like we'll see some kind of regulation regarding loot boxes in video games sooner rather than later.

Unlike a lot of politicians, Representative Chris Lee of Hawaii isn't just all talk.

Loot boxes are already regulated in China, and thanks to the recent loot-box-o-rama in gaming, the same thing might be happening soon in Belgium. According to PCGamer, which is getting its info from a translated Belgian new...

It's the “Season of the Loot Box,” and everyone's got their two cents to put in – which would buy you about 1% of a typical box in most games. By now you've probably seen the various thinkpieces that are popping up al...