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Remember all of the jokes about EA putting out games before they were ready? I do and many of them were very funny. Apparently someone at EA might have read them too and while we can picture them having an amused chuckle at first they might have also been a little concerned. Around the time that E3 was happening EA made comments to the effect that they would no longer push games out the door before they were ready. We all looked on with a look of “yeah right” on our faces and waited for the next unfinished game to hit the streets.

Blizzard has recently protect copyrights on a mysterious new project under the working title Overwatch. In addition, they began to search for new employees who would join the team in charge of the development of their new titles.

After a long beta testing that went on for months, Blizzard has announced that the Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has come to life in its final form. Free-to-play card game on the theme of the popular Warcraft franchise already in beta aroused great public interest and attracted players with simplicity and extremely addictive gameplay.

On the official website of The Elder Scrolls Online news broke that Bethesda for the upcoming weekend again prepared an extensive beta testing of the mentioned MMORPG.

Blizzard has unexpectedly delayed the start of the second season of beta testing of their newest game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. According to the information from the Battle.net, a delay is due to new technical problems which were discovered during recent maintenance.

Spanish manufacturer of mobile phones based on the Firefox OS, Geeksphone, on the first day of the sales sold out all copies of the mobile phones that are now intended primarily for software developers.

The Biggest annual DotA 2 tournament has begun and it is hosted by Valve at the Benaroy Hall in Seattle. 16 teams are invited to tournament and top the 8 receive prize money. Last year the Ukrainian Natus Vincere (Na'Vi) won first place and $1 million dollars in prize money. EHOME (China) came in second and walked away with $250,000, while Scythe Gaming (Singapore) placed third and won $150,000. This year the prize pool is the same ($1.6 million), and last year’s champions are here to defend the title. The main contenders for the title from Natus Vincere will be DK, who are called the “Galacticos” for making huge transfers, Complexity gaming who won The Defense 2 (6,000€ tournament), and mTw who won Dreamhack in the summer of 2012.