Blizzard Battle.net

The newest entry in the Call of Duty franchise is hitting Blizzard Battle.net this fall.

In addition to the ability to gift digital goods to your friends, Blizzard has outlined a host of new social features coming to the Blizzard Battle.net platform.

Just in time for the upcoming holiday season, Blizzard Battle.net has finally begun implementing the ability to send digital goods as gifts to your friends.

Are we finally getting offline mode? Yes! The beta version of the Blizzard Battle.net launcher is live right now and includes several new social options -- including appear offline.

Blizzard has just launched a new mobile app for IOS and Android devices that should make keeping in touch with your friends that much easier.

Battle.net has had some tumultuous times over its existence. This November 30 Battle.net will turn 21, and like any service that old it's evolved and grown with the times. It started as basically a chat bot and matchmaking system and has changed over time as the industry changed. To be fair, some of those changes were in response to it, or could even be said to be in mimicry of it -- lots of companies over the years have taken the basic idea of Battle.net and run with it.

In a move that will likely upset no one but quite possibly cause a lot of people to go, "Huh?