The Quick Play Mode In Overwatch Will Have A Single Hero Limit

During an Overwatch panel at BlizzCon 2016, Blizzard announced that the Quick Play mode in Overwatch will have a single-hero limit. Blizzard didn’t say when this change will go into effect. Thoughts ?

Overwatch Is About To Get More Professional With The Overwatch League

During the opening ceremonies for Blizzcon 2016, Blizzard announced the Overwatch League. The Overwatch League is a league for professional Overwatch players starting in 2017 that focuses on long-term stability for both the teams and individuals that comprise them. Check out the video below for more details. Thoughts ?

Hearthstone's Next Expansion Is Called Mean Streets of Gadgetzan

During the opening ceremonies for Blizzcon 2016, Blizzard announced that the latest expansion for Hearthstone is called Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. The expansion include 132 new cards and will also introduce new tri-class cards, which can be played in any 1 of 3 different class decks, such as mage, priests, or warlock decks. Kazakas is another tri-class card which can craft over 100 different potions by selecting from a field of effects when summoned. Mean Streets of Gadgetzan will be available in December. Check out the trailer for the expansion below.

Necromancer Class Coming To Diablo III + Diablo I Coming To Diablo III

During the opening ceremonies for Blizzcon 2016, Blizzard announced that the necromancer class from Diablo II is coming to Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. The necromancer class has abilities like corpse explosion, blood golems, curses, and skeleton armies. Blizzard is evolving the class moving forward. The Necromancer character pack will be available early next year. Blizzard also revealed the original Diablo game is being remade for Diablo III in The Darkening of Tristram anniversary patch, which comes out next week. It’s been awhile since I’ve played Diablo III and this seems like the perfect time to come back. Thoughts ? 

New Overwatch Maps Coming Soon

During the opening ceremonies for Blizzcon 2016, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced a new Overwatch map called Oasis. There will also be another map called Eco Point, which will be playable in Overwatch's new arcade mode, which will allow for 1v1 and 3v3 matches. Oasis will be hitting the Public Test Realm in December, and the Eco Point map and new modes will be available for testing next week.

Blizzard Officially Introduces The 23rd Overwatch Character Sombra

During the opening ceremonies for Blizzcon 2016, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime officially announced the 23rd Overwatch character, Sombra. Sombra is an offensive hero based on shutting down her opponents and making her location hard to pin down. She’s armed with a fully-automatic machine pistol that she can used with her cybernetic powers. Sombra’s hack ability can be used on health packs to make useless for the opposing team or on enemy players to stop their abilities. She can also turn invisible through her thermoptic camouflage, which allows her to move more quickly but shuts off the moment she takes damage or uses any of her powers. Sombra can also teleport through her translocator once she has thrown down the transmitting beacon. Once tossed down, she can instantly warp to the beacon, which can be useful for getting out of a sticky situation or sneaking behind enemy lines. Her ultimate is an EMP that disables enemy turrets, shields, ultimates, and abilities caught in the blast radius. Thoughts ? Sombra looks awesome and I can't wait to try her in the PTR.

Third StarCraft Nova: Cover Ops Mission Pack Releasing Later This Month

During the opening ceremonies for Blizzcon 2016, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced that the third mission pack for the StarCraft II Nova campaign will launch on November 22.

Overwatch's D.Va To Be A Caster In StarCraft II

If you're attending BlizzCon or hold a virtual ticket for the event, you'll be able to use Overwatches D.Va has an announcer in StarCraft II. This will  be available in StarCraft II Patch 3.7, which will also include new multiplayer announcer packs for Abathur, Raynor, Artanis, Kerrigan, Swann, and Alarak as in-game rewards. The D.Va announcer will be available for purchase at a later date, but will be exclusive to BlizzCon attendees and Virtual Ticket holders for now. BlizzCon will be held November 4 and 5.

Overwatch has 20 Million Player Accounts, Halloween Event And Has Sombra Leaked ?

Overwatch is now 20 million players strong according to Blizzard. To celebrate this milestone, Overwatch is also getting a makeover for Halloween. Until November 1, all loot boxes have been replaced with glowing jack o'lanterns that contain more than 100 new costumes, highlight intros, profile icons, sprays, victory poses, and emotes. You can see them in action in the video below. Apart of this Halloween event, Blizzard has released the first-ever PvE brawl, called Junkenstein's Revenge. This wave-based event allows up to 4 players to team up to take down a mad scientist and his minions. In other Overwatch news, A recent leak, found by a Russian Overwatch group, has begun circulating online through Reddit  and suggests the character Sombra will be coming soon. The text in the image also references her origin as part of the "Los Muertos" gang, which appeared in the short Blizzard released about Soldier 76. If this is real, I feel like we’ll see Sombra at BlizzCon and she’ll become available a week later. Thoughts ?  

Blizzcon Virtual Tickets Are Now Available To Purchase

Blizzard has announced it’s offerings for BlizzCons virtual ticket. For those who don’t know, the virtual ticket is for those who aren’t able to attend the convention in person. BlizzCon will take place November 6-7 at the Anaheim Convention Center. According to a press release, the BlizzCon virtual ticket will give distant guests access to several events:  

• Developer Panels for World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch
• Costume and talent contests on Friday night emceed by geek-culture personality Wil Wheaton
• In-depth Interviews with Blizzard’s development teams
• The Saturday night closing celebration
• On-demand replays of main-stage and panel-stage events (available for two weeks)
• This year’s commemorative BlizzCon in-game goodies
• Advance access to new BlizzCon merchandise

Virtual ticket buyers will also be able to purchase a BlizzCon goodie bag (for $34.99) filled with commemorative loot. It’s the same goodie bag in-person attendees receive. It’s limited to one per virtual ticket. If you aren’t interested in going to BlizzCon in person or virtually, you can still watch streams of the important tournaments.