Early Access

World of Warcraft's latest chapter, The War Within, had our attention from the announcement, but not all of that attention was positive -- for the first time, Epic Edition purchases come with an early access period to the live expansion a few days prior to the expansion release.

The Blizzard Watch writing staff lost our collective minds when Supergiant Games announced Hades 2 with an amazing trailer at the 2022 Game Awards.

The next installation to the Diablo franchise -- Diablo 4 -- will be in the grabby hands of all players on June 6, but one of the benefits of the more expensive pre-orders is early access to the title.

Prior to the launch of Diablo 4, a developer Livestream had given us some good information about the game, including confirmation that there would be couch co-op available for PlayStation and Xbox players.

Some games, like Diablo 2: Resurrected, Diablo 3, and World of Warcraft have PTRs where they can test their changes out, put new content up for players to interact with said content, and otherwise perform the Public Test that PTR -- Public Test Realm -- stands for.

We know that people who pre-order Diablo 2: Resurrected will get early access to the open beta for the game.

The Overwatch open beta begins its early access period later today -- 4 p.m.