Overwatch and World of Warcraft art director Bill Petras has died. The news was shared by Harley D. Huggins II, former cinematic projects director at Blizzard, who paid tribute to Petras on LinkedIn.

Bill Petras, an artist who helped design a number of Blizzard games including World Of Warcraft and Overwatch, has died. “Billy and I started at Blizzard the same week and were close friends for ...

WoW's new patch, Undermine(d), opened the gates to its new raid recently. Which means, as is tradition, a race to Mythic world first has begun. While guilds have been wearing their keyboards and ...

Players will have the opportunity to play as a Pandaren for the first time in WoW Classic. The Pandaren were the first race to allow players to create a neutral-faction character which have the ...

Team Liquid has won WoW's Race to World First in Patch 11.1 / World of Warcraft on X.com After 12 days of tireless raiding, Team Liquid have defeated King Gallywix, defending their Race to World ...

By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...

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Petras notably served as art director on World of WarCraft for its original release in 2004. WoW iterated on Warcraft 3's visual identity to create an extremely influential art style not only in ...

What are the best open-world games? From the early days of gaming, open-world games have always been right at home on PC. The leap into full 3D with Grand Theft Auto 3 and The Elder Scrolls III ...

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