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Microsoft made big news when it bought Minecraft and when it bought Bethesda, but today’s news is a deal 10 times that. Microsoft has now announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for an eye-watering $US 70 billion. It makes Microsoft the world’s third-largest gaming company.

Despite burgeoning evidence of customers being banned for no reason, Activision-Blizzard doesn’t care.

Issues with Activision Blizzard’s bulk-banning of 70,000 players for cheating are starting to snowball.

Pay for a game and then get blocked from playing it, with no recourse: is this a case of "Unfair Contract Terms?"

Blizzard Entertainment lures millions of people into the Overwatch fold. Along the way, the digital achievements have been tracked by the Blizzard servers.

Game developer Blizzard does things its own way, at its own pace. Overwatch shows that the Blizzard coding wizards can do first-person team-based combat, adding this arrow to the rather full quiver of achievement that includes Warcraft, Starcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo and Heroes of the Storm.

Blizzard has announced the next instalment of its hugely popular PC RPG World of Warcraft, dubbed Warlords of Draenor.

Blizzard has dropped a surprise gift for PC gamers, releasing 1994 platformer Blackthorne for free.

Will Diablo be the same without the mouse clicking?  Well PlayStation 3 owners can soon find out as Preorders for the popular game open up.

In a surprising business move today US videogame powerhouse Blizzard has purchased the IGN Pro League (IPL) technology and assets from media company IGN.

StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, the new blockbuster expansion to Blizzard's best-selling RTS, was released midnight last night alongside an announcement of more additions and tweaks to the game's highly competitive multiplayer.

Blizzard Entertainment has released the action filled and heart pounding opening cinematic to the next instalment of StarCraft II.  Heart Of the Swarm will answer many questions for players around the world, but many more questions remain.

Tomorrow World of Warcraft turns eight years old that is an epic run by anybody’s video game standards.  Pretenders to the throne have come and mostly gone, and WOW endures with millions of players logging in consistently.  Blizzard thought it worth putting together some celebratory fun

Blizzard Entertainment has released information on the impending release of World of Warcraft: Mists Of Pandaria including the server start-up times for those venturing into the new virtual lands of Pandaria.

The Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand representatives for the upcoming StarCraft II Battle.Net invitational tournament have been selected.

It is not unusual for developer Blizzard to be near the top of the tree when it comes to sales of PC games.  The creator of World of Warcraft has another hit to add to its stable with StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.