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Watching Blizzard: I’m afraid to look

Added 2018-03-09 08:42:15 +0000 UTC

I was out of the house during Thursday's Overwatch League matches, and frankly I'm too scared to look at the results. If I never look, I can always imagine that Shanghai pulled off a win. But... I'm tempted. So tempted. I want to know.

Okay. I made the mistake of looking, so now I know it was another 4-0 lockout for my favorite underdogs. One day, precious Dragons, you will fly. But today was not the day.

So what did happen today? Let's take a look.

Anne's amazing adventures in Zuldazar continue

Today, we visit Zeb’hari and the Temple of Rezan. (Spoilers: there are dinosaurs.)

There are even more cool Zandalari character models

The Zandalari maintain their role as the most amazing looking Allied Race with an updated selection of golden-hued tattoos. And the Mag'har and Dark Irons have totems, too, but that is nowhere near as cool as all things Zandalari.

Which hero is coming to Heroes of the Storm next?

Though no one's saying for sure, Alan Dabiri is hinting at StarCraft.

The Heroes team is playing psychological games (beyond teasing new heroes)

Heroes of the Storm Lead Designer Travis McGeathy shared the distribution of players in Ranked Play — and it's not what you would expect. How is it that just a paltry 7% of players are at Bronze rank? according to McGeathy, the answer is "feels."

Is the StarCraft 2 team trying to "fix" the classic Zerg rush?

It's almost 20 years too late to stop Zerg rushes, but an SC2 balance patch is tweaking Zerg upgrade requirements to make it tougher to gain an early advantage (particularly against the Protoss). Sure, there's some other stuff happening with these StarCraft changes, but I just think an anti-Zerg rush balance patch at this stage is hilarious.

And that's all for ... uh ... this morning, everyone. I'll aim to be back at a more reasonable hour on Friday — which is to say later today — to round up the day's news before it becomes yesterday's news. And since the Shanghai Dragons aren't playing, you many not have to listen to me talk about Overwatch League at all! It'll be great. Until then, this is Liz, signing out.