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Heroes of the Storm: Xal'atath Signals Blizzard's MOBA Revival
Six years after Hogger, Heroes of the Storm finally welcomes its 90th playable hero. Xal'atath arrives in September 2026, announced at BlizzCon. It's significant: Blizzard is signaling that the game, officially in maintenance mode since 2018, is charting an active course again. What changes for the community—and what still isn't guaranteed.
Warcraft III at 24: The RTS That Reinvented Its Genre by Accident
On July 3, 2002, Blizzard released Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos on PC. Twenty-four years later, this title remains a textbook case: by imposing individual hero management within a massive RTS framework, it fractured an entire genre and planted the seeds of the MOBA without intending to. With the RTS spinning its wheels today, revisiting this rupture isn't nostalgia—it's understanding why the genre still struggles to reinvent itself.