Our latest coverage of Blizzard Entertainment.
Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase’s long-running partnership to publish World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles in China will officially be coming to an end this Monday. Normally, the end of a publishing deal doesn’t merit a lot, but there seems to be a whole lot of drama surrounding the dissolution of this particular deal as both companies lay the blame [...]
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NetEase has laid off nearly a hundred employees of its affiliate Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology following disagreements with Blizzard Entertainment that led to the end of its publishing partnership with the American video game company in the country. According to The South China Morning Post (via Kotaku), the Chinese tech giant recently disbanded the team handling Blizzard games at the [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is now coming to the end of a very eventful year with the announcement of Microsoft’s plans to acquire Activision Blizzard and the highly awaited launches of Diablo Immortal, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, and Overwatch 2. Blizzard President Mike Ybarra also says that roughly 50 million new players joined the Blizzard community [...]
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Chris Metzen has come out of retirement to work with Blizzard Entertainment again as Creative Advisor for World of Warcraft. Metzen had worked for Blizzard for over 22 years and was formerly the studio’s Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development before he stepped down from his post in 2016 to spend time with his family and “lay around [...]
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Blizzard Albany may have gotten the green light to form a union but its parent company apparently isn’t above conjuring up all sorts of hurdles to delay the studio’s QA workers from unionizing. Blizzard Entertainment (the parent company) has filed a request for review with the National Labor Relations Board which effectively impounds all union election ballots until the review [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has reportedly canceled a World of Warcraft mobile MMORPG codenamed Neptune due to a financing dispute with NetEase. Before you panic, the canceled game isn’t a direct port of the classic MMORPG but rather a spinoff set in a different time period. It also isn’t the mobile strategy title Warcraft Arclight Rumble which is still in development, nor [...]
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Spellbreak developer Proletariat has been acquired by Blizzard Entertainment to bolster the World of Warcraft development team. According to VentureBeat, all 100 employees of the Boston-based studio will be working on Blizzard’s popular MMORPG including the upcoming Dragonflight expansion. “A big part of caring for our teams is making sure we have the resources to produce experiences our communities will [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has been slapped with yet another lawsuit, this time over Hearthstone’s allegedly deceitful microtransaction model. Polygon reports that the lawsuit was filed by Nathan Harris, a parent from Arizona whose child spent over $300 on the online collectible card game over the span of three years. The child reportedly bought numerous card packs using her father’s credit and [...]
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Just when things seem to be looking up for Activision Blizzard after shareholders approved the Microsoft deal, the company has taken another punch to the gut. One that they probably didn’t see coming. No, this isn’t about previous sexual harassment complaints or their repeated attempts to block unionization within the company. It’s about the hundreds of employees that they laid [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has been entirely silent about their upcoming Warcraft mobile game since it was first announced last year. Naturally, this has led to a lot of speculation from the gaming community as to its exact nature. Well, we’re finally going to find out next month as the studio announces its official reveal next week. “The Warcraft universe continues to [...]
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