Search results for Blizzard-DotA (19 results)

Hands-on with Blizzard DOTA: Tweaking the genre it created

by Mathew McCurley (Oct 21st 2011 6:00PM)

Mat McCurley is on loan to us from WoW Insider, which dispatched him to BlizzCon 2011 just in time to bring us this hands-on with Blizzard's upcoming MOBA! Blizzard DOTA has been reborn! We first experienced the StarCraft II module back during ...

Not So Massively: BlizzCon, beta keys, and game trailers

by Brendan Drain (Oct 24th 2011 8:00PM)

Welcome to Not So Massively, our weekly roundup of the top news from popular multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBAs) and other multiplayer online games that aren't quite MMOs. Published every Monday, the column covers games such as League of Lege...

Blizzard All-Stars is now Heroes of the Storm

by Mike Foster (Oct 17th 2013 3:30PM)

Blizzard Entertainment announced today that the studio's upcoming MOBA, formerly known as Blizzard All-Stars (and Blizzard Dota before that), will officially launch under the title Heroes of the Storm. The announcement comes after about a month of s...

Not So Massively: Diablo III launch and DreamHack Summer 2012

by Brendan Drain (May 14th 2012 7:00PM)

Diablo III became potentially the most pre-ordered PC game in history this week, breaking both Blizzard's personal pre-order records and online retailer Amazon's. The game is set to launch at midnight tonight, unlocking physical copies and digital...

MMO Week in Review: BlizzCon 2011

by Brianna Royce (Oct 23rd 2011 8:00PM)

At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. Miss a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week? You'v...

WoW loses another 100,000 subscribers

by Brianna Royce (Feb 9th 2012 5:00PM)

Thanks to our sister blog WoW Insider, we've got the scoop on today's Activision-Blizzard investor call. The results? Turns out World of Warcraft isn't dying, but it's certainly seen better days in its record-breaking run. Blizzard's flagship MMO ...

Blizzard renames Blizzard DotA to Blizzard All-Stars

by Eliot Lefebvre (May 11th 2012 5:30PM)

What's in a name? Quite a lot, as it turns out. A name alone was enough to send Blizzard and Valve to man the lawyer cannons over two upcoming games, DOTA 2 from Valve and Blizzard DOTA from Blizzard. The companies have reached an agreement, howev...

Heroes of the Storm hits yet another naming conflict

by Eliot Lefebvre (Oct 24th 2013 12:30PM)

The game currently known as Heroes of the Storm has been through more names than most high school garage bands, having cycled through titles like Blizzard Dota, Blizzard All-Stars, and for a brief period of time, Blizzard Entertainment Presents A Bu...

Heroes of the Storm enters technical alpha testing

by Eliot Lefebvre (Mar 3rd 2014 4:00PM)

Heroes of the Storm, the game previously known as Blizzard All-Stars, Blizzard Dota, and Blizzard Entertainment Presents A Bunch Of Guys Hitting Each Other, is technically in alpha. Wait, sorry, that's not right. It's in technical alpha. That means ...