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• Former designer for WoW, StarCraft II, and Diablo IV announces his departure from Blizzard
• Omar Gonzalez, a chief architect of World of Warcraft Classic, has departed Blizzard for Dreamhaven
• Massively OP Podcast Episode 314: Blizzard’s a hot mess
• Blizzard admits to more layoffs, starts up alumni network
• Activision-Blizzard has laid off another 190 employees as Kotick could rake in an extra $200M
• BlizzConline 2021: Overwatch 2 shows off New York City, visceral combat, and PvE content
• Activision-Blizzard Q4 2020: Activision’s revenues are up QoQ and YoY as Blizzard MAUs drop again
• WoW Factor: Does Blizzard have a messaging problem or a message problem?
• Activision-Blizzard lays off more support staff, this time in the Asia-Pacific region
• Blizzard loses Dave Kosak to new studio as confused players show up for WoW Shadowlands
• StarCraft II officially ends development as Blizzard ‘thinks about what’s next’
• Unions in Europe call on Blizzard employees in France to strike against the closure of the Versailles office
• Not So Massively: Reflections on Blizzard, one year after the Hong Kong fiasco
• Blizzard staffers confirm ‘honor point system,’ further exposing the company’s wage disparities
• ‘Our mentors are leaving in droves’: Blizzard staff are organizing to demand better compensation
• Blizzard staffers agitate against poor worker pay as Activision-Blizzard rakes in billions
• Activision-Blizzard shareholders say nay votes constitute ‘rebuke’ of company pay practices
• Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime laments World of Warcraft’s social unraveling
• Blizzard roundup: Michael Chu leaves Overwatch, Acti-Blizz gets a new COO, and WoW Classic drops a banhammer
• Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick downplays the role of politics in games
• Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan thinks Blizzard’s Blitzchung punishment was too harsh
• Blizzard devs characterize layoffs as a ‘bloodbath’ as pro-unionization effort calls for Bobby Kotick’s resignation
• Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime will leave planned advisory role in April
• Mike Morhaime steps down as Blizzard president; J Allen Brack takes over
• Hearthstone Game Director Ben Brode departs from Blizzard to form new game studio
• Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan on WoW Classic and the Overwatch toxicity ‘strike team’
• Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan on how needing to babysit toxic turds slows down game dev for everyone
• How Project Titan and Overwatch prompted Chris Metzen to leave Blizzard
• Chris Metzen departs Blizzard, World of Warcraft for retirement
