Our latest coverage of Blizzard Entertainment.
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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Activision Blizzard took a massive hit to its revenue this past quarter with Blizzard Entertainment bearing the brunt of the dip as revealed in their Q1 2022 financial report. ABK as a whole saw an 18% drop in revenue quarter-over-quarter, from $2.163 billion in Q4 2021 to $1.77 billion for the first quarter of 2022. Blizzard’s revenues, on the other [...]
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Activision Blizzard is apparently looking into NFTs and play-to-earn mechanics, or at the very least wants to know what the community thinks about them. Several members of the gaming community have reportedly received a survey from British online market research and data analytics firm, YouGov, that contains a question on emerging and future trends in gaming, including NFTs, play-to-earn mechanics, [...]
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Amazon has partnered with Blizzard Entertainment to bring Amazon Prime users a whole host of freebies for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone. Overwatch and Hearthstone players will get various in-game goodies from now until September 14th in the form of monthly loot boxes. A total of four legendary and three standard boxes are up for grabs for the popular [...]
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Last week, Blizzard Entertainment put out a call for developers to work on an unannounced survival game based on a brand new IP. Apparently, the controversial studio is juggling several projects at once as they’re currently looking for a Lead Content Designer for another unannounced game, this time based on an established Blizzard IP. “We are looking for a talented [...]
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Last week, Blizzard Entertainment put out a call for developers to work on a new unannounced survival game set in an all-new universe. The job posting itself seems to serve as both a teaser, a pitch, and an announcement of sorts all rolled into one. “Blizzard is embarking on our next quest. We are going on a journey to a [...]
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Over the past few months, Activision Blizzard has seen several veteran developers jump ship to fill positions in other development studios. One such developer is World of Warcraft Senior Game Designer and Lead Quest Designer Johnny Cash who has left Blizzard Entertainment for a position at Mutant Arm Studios, a relatively new Oregon-based studio that has yet to announce their [...]
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Events have taken a turn for the worse in the ongoing Activision Blizzard sexual harassment scandal following a new exposé from the Wall Street Journal. The article claims that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick knew about the frat-boy culture but chose to turn a blind eye towards. Kotick also allegedly swept sexual harassment reports under the rug and even withheld [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has cancelled the BlizzConline digital event scheduled for February 2022 as the company tries to regroup and refocus amid the ongoing investigations and lawsuit that the company is facing. “Any BlizzCon event takes every single one of us to make happen, an entire-company effort, fueled by our desire to share what we create with the community we care [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is currently running several cross-game promotions to boost player numbers and subscriptions in some of their major titles in response to the fallout caused by the ongoing sexual harassment scandal and other company blunders over the past few years. It stands to reason that the studio will want to beef up their playerbase with the third fiscal quarter [...]
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