DiabloFans.com has the outcome of the countdown that started on Diablo3.com a couple of weeks ago (story), saying that Blizzard has purchased the Diablo3.com domain from them. Expectations that the announcement to which they were counting down were tempered by a follow-up (story), but this m...

The Blizzard Store is now offering digital distribution of some of Blizzard's titles, with plans to add more going forward. The site also offers the ability to register CD keys for certain titles to allow them to be downloaded. Finally, they are also offering registrations for a beta lottery...

A page promoting Xfire's Blizzard Worldwide Invitational Coverage apparently teased their coverage of a new Blizzard game announcement at the event, before the page was edited to remove that reference. The original text is immortalized on The Unofficial Diablo II Site, where they quote it a...

A new Blizzard Entertainment teaser page is online for your teasing pleasure (thanks Gamer's Hell). Is it a tease of an imminent announcement? Are those runes? Is a Diablo III announcement coming? Or is this a Rorschach test? I think I see a bunny, or is that a football helmet? How many ques...

Blizzard's Mike Morhaime Q&A on Eurogamer has more on the state of PC gaming, as the chief executive of Blizzard Entertainment expresses his agreement with Valve's Gabe Newell's comments on the ongoing viability of the PC as a gaming platform:Yeah, and I agree with a lot of Gabe's commen...

Activision Stockholders Approve Combination with Vivendi Games has word that Activision shareholders have expressed overwhelming enthusiasm for the proposed merger with Vivendi Games, and that the parent of Blizzard and Sierra is set to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision tomorrow...

The Activision Blizzard Website announces the big merger is complete:July 10, 2008 -- Paris, France and Santa Monica, CA - Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the completion of the transaction announced on December 2, 2007 to create Activision Bl...

Activision Blizzard to suffer job cuts on mcvuk.com has word that the merger of Activision and Blizzard will lead to an "all-star team" of developers, but that "overlaps" will result in "redundancies," meaning that some people are going to lose their jobs: Here ...

MCV has word that the previously announced (story) cuts coming as a result of the formation of Activision Blizzard will not be impacting the Blizzard side of things: As rumours mount about where jobs cuts will come in the wake of Activision’s ‘merger’ with Vivendi, CFO of the newly formed ...

What Activision Can And Can't Change About Blizzard on Kotaku is a Q&A with World of Warcraft game director Jeffrey Kaplan about how the formation of Activision Blizzard may influence the future of the company (thanks nin). A Couple of interesting topics are covered, including the possibi...

Edge Online quotes Blizzard president Mike Morhaime during yesterday's Activision Blizzard earnings call saying that the launch of Age of Conan cost them some subscribers, but his estimate is about 40% of them have returned to World of Warcraft. They also quote him as saying that they expect...

Blizzard Seeks Permanent Injunction Against MDY, Asks Court to Prohibit Making Glider Open Source (thanks Ant and Slashdot) has word that following its legal victory over the makes of the WoW Glider (story), Blizzard is now seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the OpenSource release ...

An interview with World of Warcraft lead designer Jeff Kaplan on MTV Multiplayer from the other day (thanks Mike Martinez and Joystiq) reveals that Blizzard plans on implementing achievements into many games, including Diablo III and StarCraft II, which is not that surprising considering...

AMD and Blizzard Entertainment(R) Join Forces in Strategic Global Agreement. Here's a bit:SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug 12, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- AMD today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Blizzard Entertainment(R) that will allow AMD to bundle Blizzard's best games across all...

There's a Q&A with Blizzard's Frank Pearce on GamesIndustry.biz is a sit down with the Blizzard veep at the recent Games Convention. Topics include progress on StarCraft II, plans to further the Blizzard community, supporting three franchises in parallel, eSports, the exhausting aspe...

Music 4 Games has news that preorders will begin today for Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment, a two-disc package of themes from various Blizzard games performed by the Eminence Symphony Orchestra. There is a Legendary Edition with extra content that will be available on Nove...