NetEase Sues Blizzard Entertainment In China Over Failed Licensing Agreement

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NetEase and Blizzard’s feud has gone beyond destroying statues and personal attacks between its executives as the former takes the latter to court in China, suing Blizzard Entertainment for violating their licensing agreements. In a Shanghai court, NetEase is seeking a whopping $43 million in compensation for prepayments, unsold inventory, and consumer refunds related to Blizzard's now-defunct MMOs. They're also [...]

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Blizzard To Shut Down Multiple Titles In China After Failed Licensing Deal With NetEase

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Blizzard Entertainment will be suspending nearly all of their game services in China after failing to negotiate a new licensing deal with their Chinese publisher NetEase. The partnership between the two companies will officially be coming to an end in January 2023 and unless Blizzard can broker a new deal by that time or find a new publishing partner in [...]

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Multiple Warcraft Free-To-Play Mobile Titles Are In Development Says Blizzard

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Activision Blizzard revealed that multiple mobile titles are currently in the works during their Q4 2020 investor call. Following the success of Call of Duty’s business model, the company says that they’re now looking to apply the same strategy to their other IP’s. Aside from Diablo Immortal, Activision Blizzard also revealed that several free-to-play Warcraft mobile spin-offs are now in [...]

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Hearthstone's Witchwood Expansion Cards Revealed

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Just today, Hearthstone has revealed many of its new cards for the upcoming Witchwood expansion, which is launching later this month on April 12th. The fairytale-themed addition will be bringing a slew of Worgens and magical beasts out from the shadows, and introduces new "Echo" and "Rush" mechanics into the game. While some players have complained that the current meta [...]

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Overwatch's Uprising Event to Return on April 10th with a New Chapter

In a recently released tweet, Overwatch announced the return of its exceedingly popular Uprising event, with a short teaser trailer showcasing a little of what's in store for the next chapter of the Overwatch lore. Accessing file 0382… 📂 Overwatch King’s Row Uprising mission returns April 10! pic.twitter.com/K6cAgHqC4x — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) March 30, 2018 Last year's Uprising event brought Insurrection, [...]

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Blizzard Announces their new Esports Arena, Known as the "Blizzard Arena Los Angeles"

Blizzard is evidently quite tired of being behind Riot Games in the eSports spotlight - and with good reason, Starcraft is one of the games that is considered the "Grandaddy of Esports." So it's no big surprise that Blizzard has announced its new, "state-of-the-art" esports Arena, and has reiterated its focus on supporting esports, and you can already purchase tickets [...]

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