by Its_Immanis - 8 years ago     show comments

Last week was a bit light on the news since it was a short week in the US with Independence Day taking place on Monday and celebration recovery day on Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean there was no news out of Blizzard.

Tyvalir returned to the Diablo community team after dabbling in the Koprulu Sector for a bit with the StarCraft II team, there was an announcement that the end of Season 6 would be happening July 22nd, and to make up for an “unintended feature” which prevented certain cosmetic items from dropping the D3 team added a Double Blood Shard weekend to help make up for it.

The latest episode of the Well Met! podcast went on in spite of a temporarily missing cohost, Gul’dan hit the PTR in Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch continues to hint at a new hero who may be announced at or prior to Comic Con, and the World of Warcraft team are preparing for the release of the Legion pre-expansion patch to Live realms by announcing the end of the PvP season, a new series of animated shorts leading into the expansion, and testing the launch day experience on the Beta realms.

We’ve got links to all this news and more below. Let us know what you think the best news out of last week was and what’s got you hyped this week in the comments!

Diablo

• The Return of Tyvalir
• Farming For Pets and Wings
• Play Your Way Thursday Highlights Sindro’s Convention Barb
• Season 6 Ending Soon
• Community Buff Weekend – Double Blood Shards

Hearthstone

• A Yogg for Everyone – Happy New Season #28
• Well Met! Episode 68: The Show Must Go John

Heroes of the Storm

• New PTR Patch Introduces Guldan Along With Several Major Changes

Overwatch

• New Support Sniper Hero Hints and Possible Timeframe
• July 6th Patch Notes
• The Payload Podcast Ep. 30: Sombra Over the Rainbow

Warcraft

• Hunt for Free Legion Beta Keys
• Beta Launch Test
• Pre-Expansion Patch “Coming Soon”
• PvP Season Ends July 19
• Legion Animated Short Series “Harbingers” on the Horizon