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Blizzard: No major game planned for 2019
Blizzard Entertainment has no “frontline release” planned for the 2019 fiscal year, the company announced today during its quarterly earnings call with investors, meaning there won’t be any new titles in the next 12 months — including a long hoped-for mainline entry into the Diablo franchise. “We expect materially lower financial performance this year,” said Activision Blizzard president Collister “Coddy” Johnson on the conference call, during which company brass discussed its 2018 fiscal year earnings. “2018 benefited from the release of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, whereas we are not planning a major frontline release for 2019.”
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Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenue as They Fuck Over 800 Employees
Activision Blizzard, a company of more than 9,000 employees who’ve built some of the world’s most popular games, is a few things. They are a company who bragged about having a “record year,” on an earnings call this afternoon, a quarter where only raking in $2.4 billion in revenue was considered a disappointment. They are a company who granted a $15 million signing bonus and a $900,000 salary to a high-ranking executive who joined last month. And they are a company who just laid off around 800 employees, or 8% (!!!) of its total workers.
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EA and Activision Blizzard CEOs featured in 'The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs' report
The chief executive officers of two major video game companies have found their way onto a report that uses pay data to call out pay disparities in publicly traded American companies.
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Blizzard bribes female employees to track their sex, pregnancy, and moods
Big Brother was so 1984. Now in 2019, it’s all about Big Blizzard.
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Even after mobile and console excursions, Blizzard boss says “we are PC”
Blizzard promises it won't go mobile-only any time soon
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Your WoW subscription buys Blizzard less than two weeks of toilet paper
Blizzard is a pretty big company, but thankfully, its games seem to be bringing in enough to keep the lights on, and the bathrooms well-equipped. But just how much money does that require, and what kind of impact are you, a single player having on Blizzard’s ongoing ability to operate?
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Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce steps down after 28 years
After 28 years with the company, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce is stepping down.
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You Can Now Play the Original Diablo in a Web Browser
You don't even need to own a copy of the game to have some fun, but it'll be even more fun if you do.
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Some World of Warcraft Classic servers already have hour-long queues to get in
The WoW experience is being replicated faithfully.
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Blizzard's Hong Kong Screw-Up Is Officially an International Incident
The company's communities are in chaos and US senators are taking notice, following the suspension of a pro 'Hearthstone' player who declared support for Hong Kong's protest movement.
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Here's a timeline of Activision Blizzard's terrible week, as it faces fan protests after an esports athlete was punished for voicing support for Hong Kong
Activision Blizzard is dealing with a fan revolt and intense public scrutiny after punishing Blitzchung — a Hong Kong-based esports competitor who voiced support for Hong Kong's protesters during a Blizzard-run event on October 5. Blitzchung, whose real name is Chung Ng Wai, is a grandmaster-level player in "Hearthstone," Blizzard's very popular digital card game.
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The banned 'Hearthstone' gamer at the centre of a China censorship furore spoke out for the first time after Blizzard reduced his ban
The pro 'Hearthstone' player banned by Blizzard after voicing support for the Hong Kong protesters has spoken out after his ban was reduced and his prize money reinstated.
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Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Launch Event In Wake Of Protests
Blizzard has cancelled a launch event for Overwatch on the Nintendo Switch, just seven days after it first announced the celebration. The free event was scheduled to take place tomorrow on October 16 at New York's Nintendo Store. The first 150 fans to sign up were promised meet-and-greets with voice actors from the game, and the only requirement to attend was an active Nintendo account.
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Paid character transfers are now available in WoW Classic
Today Blizzard enabled paid character transfers for World of Warcraft Classic. This service allows players to migrate their characters to a different realm as long as it's in the same region. This has been a service many players were looking forward to after the phase 2 honor system release and…
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Blizzard now claims full copyright for player-made “custom game” mods
New legal language would ensure total ownership of the next Dota.
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Heroes of the Storm: Why Blizzard's Action-Packed MOBA Is Far From Dead
Late in 2018 Blizzard Entertainment all but signed the death warrant of Heroes of the Storm, its MOBA that brings together beloved characters from the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch universes. In a blog post, the company announced that it was shifting development resources away from Heroes of the Storm to other projects and cancelling the game’s official esports programs - Heroes Global Championship and Heroes of the Dorm - altogether. The post promised that Blizzard would continue to support the game, but warned that “the cadence will change”. It didn’t take much for players to read between the lines: Heroes was on life support.
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Diablo 2: Resurrected Is In Very Capable Hands with Crash Trilogy and Tony Hawk Remake Dev
Diablo II is getting a big overhaul in a new remaster. After a few leaks, Blizzard officially announced Diablo II Resurrected at its online-only edition of Blizzcon 2021. The new version of the game — which first launched back in 2000 — will launch this year on PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S, with cross-progression between PC and console. The HD remaster will include both the base game and its expansion, Lord of Destruction.
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Diablo II Resurrected impressions: Unholy cow, man
Blizzard Classic follows WarCraft III's utter failure with an udder success.
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Diablo 4 interview: “Diablo is the apex of dark fantasy in ARPGs”
Diablo is Blizzard’s darkest series. In the world of Sanctuary, humanity desperately etches out an existence for itself, harangued by demonic invasions and the will of angels. There’s a lot of death, plenty of gore, and a little bit of hope. That’s been the aesthetic blueprint for the series since the first game released back in 1996, and Blizzard isn’t looking to change things up for the upcoming Diablo IV.
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Blizzard delays Diablo Immortal to 2022
Blizzard Entertainment said it now plans to release Diablo Immortal, the company’s mobile action RPG, sometime in the first half of 2022. The company had planned to release the game sometime this year, but updates to PvP and endgame content, as well as a new option for controller support, mean Diablo Immortal won’t meet its previously communicated release window.
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