Tickets for Blizzard's annual fan convention BlizzCon will be go on sale in late May in two lots, the developer has announced. If you're painfully desperate to go, you might want to book two days off work so you can sit in the queue.

The first batch of $175 tickets will go on sale at 10am PST on Saturday, May 21. The second round will be available on Wednesday, May 25 at 7pm PST. BlizzCon 2011 is on October 21 and 22 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. Read more »

As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, much-loved developer Blizzard Entertainment has released a lengthy retrospective documentary delving into, and retelling, its history.

The 48-minute video spans from Blizzard's beginnings as Silicon & Synapse, formed in 1991 by a handful of UCLA graduates, through to the present day, when it's known and loved for series including StarCraft, Diablo and Warcraft. Heaps of Blizzard luminaries appear, offering opinions and anecdotes about the company whose games we so adore. Read more »

Continuing to support the acclaimed action-RPG after nearly a decade, Blizzard today released the long-awaited 1.13c update for Diablo 2 (PC) and its expansion.

The update brings a host of tweaks and changes, including the ability to respec characters and improved support for windowed mode, complete with blit scaling.

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Blizzard today continues its sex-based Diablo III media blasts with new screenshots and artwork showing off the PC action RPG's previously-revealed female Witch Doctor, hot on the heels of recent revelations of the female monk and male wizard.

Blizzard has yet to reveal when Diablo III will be released--stating only that it won't be this year--but does concede they have "always announced all of our games too early." Read more »

Diablo 2 fans who answered Blizzard's solicitation for feature requests can now see if their ideas made the cut, as the resulting patch 1.13 has entered public testing.

Chief among the changes are long-overdue characters respecs, improvements to windowed mode, new Hell challenges, and tweaks to several much-hated monsters. Read more »

There's now even less of an excuse for not owning Diablo 2, StarCraft or Warcraft III as Amazon is today offering 50% off the Battle Chest editions of Blizzard's classics.

$10 nets you the StarCraft Battle Chest, containing Blizzard's absolutely essential real-time strategy and its expansion pack Brood War, plus strategy guides for both. Read more »

Not happy with working on just one Diablo game, the ever-updating folks at Blizzard are looking to fashion a Diablo II 1.13 patch--and they need your help.

In a post on the official Battle.net forums, Blizzard's Bashiok has asked fans to list their most-wanted feature for the new patch in an effort to best meet the needs of the still-strong community. Read more »

Along with its list of the most-played consoles in 2008, research group The Nielsen Company has provided its list of the past year's most popular PC games in the US.

Of the ten titles, none were released in 2008, and only 2 debuted in 2007. The list is based off data from January through October 2008, meaning that the impact of the second World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, was not taken into account. Read more »

Blizzard may be one of the luckiest game companies in the industry, considering its ten-year-old game StarCraft is still in the sales charts. But with that success comes

responsibility, and Blizzard has exhibited just that by removing 350,000 hackers from its online service Battle.net--or, in Internet lingo, they've dropped the banhammer. Read more »

Sales-tracking firm NPD Group today issued its list of the ten best-selling pieces of PC software in the United States across the week of July 6 to July 12, 2008.

Blizzard's Diablo Battle Chest, originally released in 2003, has now appeared on the weekly charts for three weeks straight--a feat attributed to the unveiling of Diablo 3. Read more »

In the week following Diablo 3's announcement on June 28, Blizzard's Diablo Battle Chest compilation was the second best-selling PC game at United States retailers. Compiled by sales-tracking firm NPD, the data covers the week of June 29 to July 5.

Containing the original Diablo, Diablo II, and the Diablo II expansion Lord of Destruction, the Diablo Battle Chest hit retailers in 2003. In the week before Diablo 3's official announcement, rumors of its revelation bumped Battle Chest sales up to #10. Read more »

Blizzard's Diablo Battle Chest ranked as the tenth best-selling piece of PC software at US retailers for the week ending June 28, sales-tracking firm NPD Group has revealed.

The sales spike for the action-RPG compilation--which hit in late 2003 and packs Diablo, Diablo II, and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction--came in advance of Diablo 3's official revelation, which occurred on June 28. Read more »

Update 3: More comparisons surfaced overnight, revealing that Limbo of the Lost apparently contains background elements of Gray Matter's Return to Castle Wolfenstein, World of Warcraft artwork, and a shocking number of Unreal Tournament 2004 maps.

Blizzard has issued new patches for Diablo 2 and its Lord of Destruction expansion, updating both to v1.11b. The patch fixes two crash bugs. Thanks Blues News.

Blizzard has announced that the Diablo 2 1.11 patch is now available, only a few days after the initial announcement. At FileShack you can download the patch for the original game and the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. Read about changes at Battle.net.

A new Mystery has been revealed!
• Players of Hell Difficulty Realm games are hereby warned once again, that a series of new and challenging tests await you! The answer lies within Diablo's Bosses, which span across the world from the Den of Evil to the Throne of Destruction...

New Items
• Added 10 New Runewords.
• Added new Unique Items that will drop from Special Bosses.

Hireling Enhancements
• Players can purchase hirelings that are within 1-5 levels below their own level.
• The rate at which hirelings gain experience has been increased. They should now stay closer to the player's level.