It´s been nearly a year since Blizzard announced it was retiring the beloved Battle.net name-a fact you may or may not have noticed, as you´ve almost certainly kept calling it Battle.net this entire time anyway. Not only was the new `Blizzard App` nomenclature awkward and sterile sounding, but...well, people love Battle.net.So now it´s back.And for good reason. Oh it´s cheesy, for sure. Battle.net is beautifully dated, immediately reminiscent of the 1990s and its newfound Internet obsession. But it´s also what everyone´s been using since Diablo in 1996-through multiple Diablo sequels, StarCraft, Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and most recently Overwatch. It was the home of some of gaming´s biggest franchises for 20-odd years, and for a long time synonymous with PC multiplayer done well.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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