Just announced, Blizzard has revealed a brand new IP coming soon to gamer’s PC around the world. Overwatch, a team-based FPS gives players control over a variety of heroes to do battle with.

Soldiers. Scientists. Adventurers. Oddities.

In a time of global crisis, an international task force of heroes banded together to restore peace to a war-torn world:

OVERWATCH.

It ended the crisis and helped to maintain peace in the decades that followed, inspiring an era of exploration, innovation, and discovery. But after many years, Overwatch’s influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded.

Overwatch is gone… but the world still needs heroes.

Learn more about Overwatch at http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/

We had created World of Warcraft, and we felt really confident that we knew how to make MMOs,” Morhaime said. “So we set out to make the most ambitious thing that you could possibly imagine. And it didn’t come together.

“We didn’t find the fun,” Morhaime continued. “We didn’t find the passion. We talked about how we put it through a reevaluation period, and actually, what we reevaluated is whether that’s the game we really wanted to be making. The answer is no.”

While Titan’s cancellation might be sad news to many loyal fans, this isn’t Blizzard’s first time cancelling a game that was in the deeper stages of development. Warcraft Adventures and Starcraft: Ghost are just two of Blizzards more widely known games that were announced but later cancelled before release.

Every ending is a beginning and today marks a new beginning for me.

After 17 years at Blizzard, with long and careful contemplation, I have made a difficult and bittersweet but ultimately exciting decision to pursue the next chapter in my life and career.

Apart from spending the summer with his family, Pardo stated that he has no immediate plans for the future. Fans that wish to keep up with whatever he decides to do next should follow him on Twitter at @Rob_Pardo

You can read the entire announcement on the official Blizzard forums

Over the course of WoW’s nearly 10-year history, raiding has probably undergone more iteration and change than any other game system. To put the upcoming Warlords of Draenor raid changes into proper context, this three-part blog series will attempt to retrace the twists and turns of our raid design philosophy from Molten Core through Siege of Orgrimmar. Veterans will hopefully enjoy the trip down memory lane, and we hope those who discovered raiding later on will gain some insight into how things used to be . . . and why they changed.

It’s an interesting read for people that are feeling a bit nostalgic or never kept up on the rich history of WoW. Lots of fascinating insight into the development process behind the most popular MMO ever.

Read the first part of the three part series on at battle.net

You can watch the entire video after the break.

“We believe the right thing to do for the game is to not rush it out into open beta, but to instead hold onto it a little longer to make sure it’s ready for wider testing. At BlizzCon, we mentioned that we hoped to get the game into a state where it’s ready for open beta this month, but we’re just not quite there yet. The development team has been working hard to get this out before the end of the year, but our highest priority is that Hearthstone has an awesome launch when all gates are lifted and everyone can download it and play at the same time.”

Invites have been sent out to anyone that signed up for the beta as of early December and it’s expected Blizzard will do the same again in early January.

For us Diablo 3 quickly turned into a game about saving gold and buying the best items on the auction house instead of trying to find the best items in dungeons. It’s almost sad that the style of auction house based gameplay seemed to be entirely by design and unfortunately for Blizzard that plan backfired big time.

I have been at Blizzard Entertainment for almsot(sic) six years. It has been epic and I have made many friends around the world and I have learned so much. But, I have a great opportunity for something new and exciting, and sadly it is time to move on.

The game community will likely find out today, so I wanted you all to hear it from me first.

To all of you in my Blizzard family, inside the company and out, thank you for everything. We will keep in touch. You have made me love my life.”

We find that expansions are what bring players back to World of Warcraft,” “We really want to get to a cadence where we can release expansions more quickly,”  “Once a year I think would be a good rate. I think the best thing we can do for new players is to keep coming out with regular content updates.”

It’s that time again! On the morning of Tuesday, November 26, we’ll be conducting maintenance in order to reset the Diablo II ladder. We anticipate the realms could be down for up to six hours, and during that time all existing ladder characters will be converted to non-ladder. All characters and items being converted to non-ladder will remain intact, but once converted these characters will no longer have access to ladder content such as creating ladder-only rune words.

This ladder reset, like all those before it, creates a clean slate where all ladder characters begin at level 1 with no previous items to help them. To participate, simply wait until the Diablo II realms return to service, log in to Battle.net, and tick the “Ladder Character” checkbox when creating a new character. You can track ladder character leveling progress by clicking on the Ladder button from the main Diablo II in-game Battle.net interface.

For more information on ladder characters please visit the Arreat Summit at http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/basics/charactertypes.shtml