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MMO Business Roundup: Nexon, Roblox, and EA’s latest financials
Welcome back to a fresh roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business and industry news, today all of the financial report variety.
Roblox
Roblox's revenue reports have...
WAPO calls out gaming industry for lack of support for reproductive health as workers strike
The Washington Post has a new article out this week ripping into the gaming industry for its "silence" on the likely overturn of Roe...
Hearthstone launches its Naga-filled Battlegrounds season and talks about balancing the mode’s heroes
"Why'd it have to be snakes?" Because calling the new Hearthstone Battlegrounds season Rise of the Naga wouldn't make much sense without having them....
New York City just lodged a new lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard
A new lawsuit filed in Delaware by multiple New York City retirement and pension funds alleges in court something that's seemed like an open...
Activision-Blizzard wants shareholders to vote against making the company release public abuse reports
The Activision-Blizzard annual shareholders meeting is coming soon, and several proposals are up for voting. Among those proposals is a required report that outlines...
CWA says Activision-Blizzard management threatened workers for discussing labor rights
If a complaint filed to the National Labor Relations Board has any merit, the management of Activision-Blizzard has been working behind the scenes as...
ABK shareholders approve Microsoft buyout, World of Warcraft gets new executive producer
We've got some hefty Activision Blizzard news for you today, so buckle up and let's go for a ride.
Shareholders approve Microsoft buyout: On our...
Blizzard explains why – and how – it’s porting Diablo Immortal to PC
Earlier today, Blizzard attempt to offset Activision-Blizzard's dismal quarterly financials with the news that Diablo Immortal is launching in June - and on PC...
MMOARPG Diablo Immortal launches June 2 – the same day its PC open beta begins
Buried in this morning's frankly disastrous Activision-Blizzard quarterly financial report is some actual good news for gamers (and Blizzard itself, which could use a...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2022: Revenues plummet, Blizzard loses another 2M players
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials.
As of this morning, we have Q1's results, comprising January, February, and March 2022, a...
Activision-Blizzard’s Raven Software gets green light to vote for a union by National Labor Relations Board
This past Friday saw a major step forward for the QA workers of Activision-Blizzard studio Raven Software, as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...
Diablo Immortal is set to reveal its release date next Monday
Well, it's been a few years and the telecommunications industry has come a long way, so we're guessing that most of you finally have...
Massively Overthinking: The WoW Dragonflight and Wrath Classic roundtable
So this week's Massively Overthinking is going to cautiously stick a paw into the beehive of World of Warcraft, thanks to the reveal of...
World of Warcraft answers some player questions about Dragonflight’s revamped talent trees
Out of the many reveals that World of Warcraft made during its announcement of the Dragonflight expansion, some of the greatest curiosity from players...
World of Warcraft’s next expansion is called Dragonflight, WoW Classic Wrath launches this year
(We're updating with the big announcements at the end of this post.)
Today's the day, folks: As promised, Blizzard will be taking the wraps off...
Activision-Blizzard tells the SEC it hasn’t yet negotiated Kotick’s future with Microsoft
While it's all but assured that if the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard goes through, CEO Bobby Kotick will get to flutter away on a...
Mike Ybarra says Blizzard isn’t ‘doing NFTs’ in spite of its play-to-earn and NFT surveys
Now before anyone begins to get too upset, it should be made plain from the off that surveys are not full-bore announcements of features,...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft: Dragonflight isn’t going to fix everything that’s broken at Blizzard
I really wanted to write a different column this week. I really did. But wouldn't you know it, Activision-Blizzard had to remind everyone that...
Diablo III’s new season brings the Echoing Nightmare feature and quality-of-life updates to Greater Rifts
Are you ready to relive the tortured memories of Nephalem who fell in a Greater Rift until you're inevitably overwhelmed or defeated? If that...
Destiny 2 studio Bungie transitions to ‘digital first’ workplace
At a time when many gaming companies, perhaps most notably Activision-Blizzard, have been trying to coerce workers back into the office during an ongoing...
