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Blizzard’s Proletariat ends bid to unionize after unionbusting tactics succeed
Activision-Blizzard's latest efforts to head off worker unions were apparently successful: Union group Communication Workers of America has ended its bid to launch a...
Workers at Blizzard-owned Proletariat say management refused its union and is ‘forcing’ them to go through NLRB voting
At the tail end of December, we reported that Blizzard-owned studio Proletariat was forming a union known as the Proletariat Workers Alliance. The announcement...
Blizzard-owned studio Proletariat announces plans to form a union
Workers at a third studio owned by Activision-Blizzard are planning to organize: Proletariat, which readers may recall was the studio behind battle royale game...
Blizzard bought out Spellbreak’s Proletariat to shore up the World of Warcraft team
Hey, remember Spellbreak? It was a 2020 battle royale that was actually pretty well-liked around here, though it's been quiet the last few months....
Wizard battle royale Spellbreak survives as a free version after Blizzard buyout
When you're a game that's been served a death sentence, you'll take a win anywhere you can get it. Spellbreak was a wizard-themed battle...
Vague Patch Notes: Can anyone really cover games objectively when there’s suffering built-in to them?
In July of 2021, we started a roundup tag in our tag cloud that most of us probably didn't expect to still be using...
Natural Selection 2 enters maintenance mode, Spellbreak returns as an official ‘community version’
We once more have to report on some semi-sunsets in our corner of the gaming sphere, although as the headline suggests, it's not all...
World of Warcraft 10.0.7 returns players to the Forbidden Reach, proliferates the Monk class to more races
Yesterday, we speculated that with Activision-Blizzard's Q4 financials looming and bad news for Blizzard happening pretty much every day now, we'd likely start seeing...
MMO Year in Review: The FTC strikes back (December 2022)
December used to be one of those months when nothing happened, but the last few years, companies have treated December like the after-business-hours-on-a-Friday dumping...
Wow Factor: Welcome the desert of the real Blizzard
This entire column came about because our team was discussing World of Warcraft at work and I observed something kind of odd: The Dracthyr...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 380: A TERAble way to go
Justin and Bree discuss TERA's sunset, Secret World's maintenance mode, Red Dead Online's maintenance mode, Heroes of the Storm's maintenance mode, Skull and Bones' November launch, Elder Scrolls Online's Lost Depths DLC, EverQuest II's prison server, Blizzard's Proletariat buyout, WoW's crafting overhaul, and the return of BlizzCon in 2023, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallout 76, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag lightning round.
Fight or Kite: Love vampires and battle royales? Here’s what Bloodhunt brings to the table
The latest entrant into the world of BRs comes from the World of Darkness series Vampire: The Masquerade. Even though I’ve played a number...
Activision-Blizzard is using some of its $250M diversity fund to convert and ‘uplevel’ new game devs
If you can't hire them, then buy them or build them, right? Activision-Blizzard's already done some buying; now it's time for building, as last...
MMO Week in Review: RIP TERA
The western MMO fanbase said farewell to TERA this week as Bluehole forced Gameforge to shut it down for good, making it one of...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
Fight or Kite: Spellbreak’s wizardry battles wage on with new content
It’s been a hot minute since I spent any time playing Spellbreak. When it first launched, it was a nice part of my nightly...
Gamestonk’s gamified guerilla trading made losers of both the good and bad guys
It seems like a long time ago, but just a few weeks back, the mainstream news cycle was absolutely obsessed with Gamestop thanks to...
Spellbreak is tying lore to gameplay and arriving to Steam with the Spellstorm update December 15
What are your motivations for playing battle royale? Progression? The chance at victory? Because you've hitched your YouTube channel to a single game and...
Spellbreak addresses player uproar surrounding upgradeable cosmetics in the upcoming Chapter Pass
Spellbreak is a free-to-play game that also has to make money, and one of the most newly common ways for free titles to make...
Fight or Kite: Spellbreak’s Clash 9v9 mode is absolute mayhem
For the past few months I’ve been searching for an online game to really pull me in and become a new regular part of...
