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Bobby Kotick considers leaving Activision-Blizzard if he can’t quickly fix its ongoing frat boy culture
Last week, reporting from the Wall Street Journal blew the lid off of fresh allegations leveraged at Activision-Blizzard, including attempts by CEO Bobby Kotick...
World of Warcraft lead game designer teases 9.2’s new zone, raid, and tier sets
World of Warcraft looks like it's going to keep plugging along and talk up the upcoming arrival of Update 9.2: Eternity's End in spite...
Diablo II Resurrected plans PTR, offline difficulty scaling, better keyboard mapping, and more
Did you know Diablo II Resurrected was still having queue issues? I hadn't realized that wasn't all entirely cleaned up by now, but apparently...
Activision-Blizzard workers and industry giants join chorus calling for Bobby Kotick’s resignation
People across the gaming industry are adding to the calls for Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick to resign - or be removed.
As we've been covering, earlier...
Some Activision-Blizzard shareholders join calls for Bobby Kotick’s ouster
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an explosive piece that compounded the ongoing Activision-Blizzard sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits and scandal. The Journal detailed...
Amid fresh Activision-Blizzard scandal, WoW Classic launches its Season of Mastery
Are you ready to ding like you've never dinged before?
WoW Classic hopes so, as the legacy version of the MMO took a temporary break...
Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick hit with new accusations, Jen Oneal speaks up, employees walk out
Oh my sweet summer child, you thought Activision-Blizzard might make it a whole week without another story in its ongoing sexual discrimination and harassment...
The MOP Up: Valve’s Steam Deck gets delayed to 2022
Bad news for those among you who were hoping to play some MMOs on Valve's Steam Deck this holiday season: The company announced that...
World of Warcraft has unveiled its 9.2 update: It’s called Eternity’s End
Blizzard abruptly announced yesterday that it would be unveiling the next content update for World of Warcraft Retail's Shadowlands expansion arc today at 1...
Activision-Blizzard labor organizers score win for contractors as the Actiblizz lawsuits continue
Last week, following the brutal Activision-Blizzard investor call that saw the delay of multiple Blizzard titles and a stock plummet, the A Better ABK...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s investment call was all bad news for World of Warcraft
Tuesday's investor call for Activision-Blizzard was not what I would generally call good news for the company across the board, but the reality is...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2021: Blizzard MAUs hold steady at 26M as Diablo II Resurrected drives revenues
Welcome back to our quarterly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials, the release day of which has become one of the schadenfreude highlights of each...
Diablo III’s upcoming season offers Soul Shards system and item changes
Wait, didn't jamming a shard of one of the Prime Evils of Hell into yourself get proven to be a bad thing? Regardless, the...
17-year-old World of Warcraft announces a ‘community council’ for diverse player feedback
Player councils in MMORPGs are a pretty old concept, prominent in games like EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and Star Wars Galaxies....
World of Warcraft’s Mythic Dungeon Invitational crowns team Echo as its champion
If you're not a fan of a team running the table of an esports event multiple times, then you're probably not going to be...
Hearthstone teases Deadmines mini-set’s November 2 arrival, Diablo II Resurrected promises lots of fixes
This little bundle of news is for those who like whimsical online CCGs or remasters of old ARPGs that are full of bugs. We're...
World of Warcraft, lacking any sense of shame, releases a new cash shop mount
The year is 2021. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has been out for nearly a year. It has had one content update. One. Every other game...
Diablo Immortal launches closed beta today as Blizzard’s pre-investor call infodump continues
I joked to my husband this morning that Blizzard has been all over the map this week, with a critical investor call looming on...
Activision-Blizzard partly meets some worker demands, dramatically cuts Bobby Kotick’s compensation
At 5:15 a.m. EDT this morning, Activision-Blizzard's PR team dropped a lengthy letter from CEO Bobby Kotick, addressing everything from the ongoing pandemic to...
Blizzard has now fully canceled BlizzConline, originally slated for early 2022
Well, today's Blizzard news isn't going to surprise anyone: The company has canceled its upcoming BlizzConline event.
The online event was originally set for early...
