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Activision-Blizzard Q4 2019: Revenues are down YoY for the fourth straight quarter
So here we are in 2020, looking back at the last quarter of 2019 for Blizzard. Nothing big happened or anything, just a massive...
EA aims to mask active user numbers in investor earnings reports
Don't call it hiding anything, just call it select data provisioning! Electronic Arts COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen has said that future earnings reports...
MMO Business Roundup: Guild Wars’ art book, Day of Dragons drama, Red Dead hackers, FogBank layoffs, and more
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Guild Wars' art book: If you happened to read our swag guide ahead of...
Global Chat: Why player representation in games matters
The recent flap over Escape from Tarkov's public pronouncement of "no icky girls" (my paraphrase) as playable characters in its game elicited more than...
Activision Blizzard Media is launching a new player research community called King’s Council
So this is something new. Activision Blizzard Media has announced that it's forming a new player research community composed of its most active and...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2019: Revenues sink for the third quarter in a row
Activision-Blizzard has not had the best year. In February, the company saw record-high revenues and promptly laid off 800 employees, leading to widespread condemnation....
Complete coverage of Blizzard’s ‘Hong Kong liberation’ Blitzchung fiasco
In October of 2019, Blizzard made international news headlines when it banned a Hong Kong Hearthstone esports pro and two Taiwanese contracted casters over...
Activision-Blizzard hires two new corporate employees
The corporate offices of Activision-Blizzard are welcoming two new faces in the form of a new chief marketing officer (which sounds like an ad...
The ESA says a crapton of game companies are finally embracing lockbox transparency
Under pressure from no less than the US Senate, the FTC held the first of its planned video game monetization workshops today, and while...
Massively Uplifting: Charity comes in many forms for Bethesda, Square Enix, and Digital Extremes
Summer smiles -- get 'em while they're hot! If you are looking for a way to make your mood rise like the temperature, we've...
Rumor: More high-profile esports figures are leaving Blizzard within the next two weeks
Remember just last week when the commissioner of Overwatch's premiere and eponymous league left his position? That alone was a bit of a surprise, but...
Overwatch League commissioner jumps ship for Fortnite esports
There's probably not a lot of lines to read in-between here, but then again, the commissioner and founder of Overwatch's premier esports league leaving...
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.
Read this report over at Games Industry based on a new WAPO...
World of Warcraft posts a survival guide for patch 8.1.5 incoming on March 12
Do you feel sufficiently prepared for the arrival of patch 8.1.5. in World of Warcraft? Complete with new allied races, new profession-based questlines, and...
MMO Business Roundup: Skyrim’s multiplayer mod mess, Neural MMO, and the rise of Overwatch League
Welcome back to another roundup of stuff happening in the gaming business world relevant to MMOers. Remember Skyrim Together, the multiplayer Skyrim mod that...
World of Warcraft unveils the upcoming Tools of the Trade questlines
There are big new profession quests arriving in World of Warcraft with the game's next major patch. It's an exercise for the audience whether this...
Third law firm joins the chorus threatening suits against Activision Blizzard over the Bungie split
Stop me if you've heard this one: In the wake of the split between Activision Blizzard and Bungie, with the latter regaining full rights...
Blizzard Roundup: NetEase on Diablo Immortal’s launch, plus news on HOTS, Hearthstone, and Overwatch
MMO Culture has an interesting translated bit from the NetEase conference call last week that homes in on Diablo Immortal, the game that was...
Two weeks after Activision Blizzard’s layoffs, its stock price is barely higher than before the layoffs
You all remember when Activision Blizzard laid off 800 employees on a year that was, on balance, a very good year for the company?...
Video game unionization effort starts petition to remove Bobby Kotick from Activision-Blizzard
After calling for Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to resign on Wednesday, video game industry unionization group Game Workers Unite has now put together a...
