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EA becomes the latest studio to back out of a con over coronavirus concerns
This week's Boston-based PAX East has already felt the effects of multiple companies, from Sony to Square Enix, backing out over coronavirus fears -...
Activision is trying to locate its Call of Duty leaker via Reddit subpoenas
Yes, that headline is true. Activision is attempting to track down the mysterious person who leaked the cover art of the next Call of Duty...
Bethesda Softworks has also pulled its games from GeForce NOW
It would appear that the GeForce Now games streaming service has lost another big publisher's support. A very brief post on the GeForce Now...
Visions of N’Zoth boosted World of Warcraft subs, but it’s lost tons since WoW Classic’s 2019 peak
SuperData's January 2020 games industry revenue rankings are up, with only mild shakeups since December 2019. On the PC side, Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped...
A LinkedIn profile adds more fuel to the Diablo animated series fire
The rumor about a Diablo animated series has been running for ages now, and the latest bit of evidence that this is a real thing comes...
Acti-Blizzard games vanished from GeForce NOW over a ‘misunderstanding,’ Nvidia says
Last week we reported on the sudden removal of Activision-Blizzard titles from GeForce Now, the streamed games service offered by Nvidia, with barely an...
Vague Patch Notes: How to read games industry investor reports as a player
The old adage goes that diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. By extension, marketing is the...
Activision-Blizzard has apparently yanked its games from GeForce NOW
If you were subbing to NVIDIA GeForce Now for your streamed games, we genuinely hope it wasn't for Activision-Blizzard's games. That's because yesterday Activision-Blizzard...
Apex Legends is getting a mobile version for the Chinese market
Mobile gaming and breaking into the Chinese gaming market (however lucrative that may or may not be) are still going to be things that...
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...
Leaderboard: Four months after the Blitzchung Hong Kong mess, are you still boycotting Blizzard?
MOP reader Pepperzine recently dropped us an email about Blizzard that we've put off until today very intentionally. Why? Because tomorrow, Activision-Blizzard releases its...
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...
World of Warcraft took a tumble in SuperData’s December 2019 revenue rankings
SuperData's December 2019 report on the global games industry's monthly revenue is up, and it's a head-scratcher indeed.
On the PC side, there hasn't been...
The push for games industry unionization expands with new initiative from major US union CWA
Unionization pushes have become a big discussion across the games industry for the last several years. The tipping point might just have been the...
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’s Bobby Kotick downplays the role of politics in games
Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick clearly doesn't fear the Blizzard boycott that is still technically ongoing following Blizzard's October decision to penalize a Hearthstone esports...
The Daily Grind: Should World of Warcraft switch to annual expansions?
During last week's Activision-Blizzard investor call, Blizzard executives dodged hard on one analyst's question about WoW Classic retention - no great surprise there, really,...
WAPO says Activision-Blizzard execs profited from dodgy but legal stock sale
Yesterday we covered Activision-Blizzard's third quarter financial results, which were... not good. While WoW Classic drove a subscription spike and saw Blizzard's MAUs finally...
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....
