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Blizzard’s Hearthstone recently entered open beta, which means that anyone who wants to try it can. I’ve been in the closed beta for some time now but Chaos is Gaming’s Will hasn’t, so the Hearthstone open beta finally allowed him to get in on the game. Let’s look at Hearthstone and see what you’ll be getting in to if and when you give it a shot as well.

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Blizzard’s recent convention has wrapped up, and the big news revolves around the announcement of their forthcoming World of WarCraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor. As a lapsed player I followed this announcement with interest, and it’s from that angle we’re going to look at it today.

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World of Pokemon. Does that sound like fun? In case you never heard, Blizzard is adding pet battles to World of WarCraft in Mists of Pandaria (due out September 25th) and to my surprise, despite the obvious Pokemon overtones it’s actually kind of fun.

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Diablo, the titular baddie of Diablo III seems to have spent allot of his time and effort attacking Blizzard’s servers the last week, but is his game worth fighting him for?

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Diablo III launched last night, and with it breaking pre-order records, it’s not a stretch to assume many people have been playing it. Here’s the AAGH First Opinion of D3’s opening hours.

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UPDATED: 4/25/12 – I’ve added a new tab on the latest Mists of Pandaria beta patch.

ORIGIINAL POST: 4/20/12 – So, with some time into the two active Blizzard betas, Diablo III and World of WarCraft: Mists of Pandaria under my belt, I wanted to give you some First Opinion reaction to what I’ve seen.

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Blizzard has announced World of WarCraft’s latest expansion today: Mists of Pandaria. It signifies a major shift in the game and may be the game that saves it (if it needs saved) or ultimately puts an end to it’s stranglehold on the genre.

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