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Activision-Blizzard Q4 2022: Blizzard revenues, MAUs spike thanks to WoW Dragonflight and Overwatch 2
Welcome back to our inevitable coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials: Today's edition sums up Q4's results, comprising October, November, and December 2022. Let's break it...
IGN’s upcoming Fan Fest features Elder Scrolls Online, Redfall, and Diablo IV
The month of February is usually associated with the cold of winter and not a showcase of game and movie trailers, but the IGN...
Diablo IV takes you behind-the-scenes of its launch date trailer
If the grim setting and bloody characters of Diablo IV's January release trailer were too obtuse for you, then be grateful that Blizzard threw...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
Diablo Immortal adds a new limited-time event through January 13
Even with Diablo IV presumably on the way later this year, Diablo Immortal would like you to know that it still exists and is...
Diablo IV dev livestream talks up seasons, battle passes, and the Codex of Power system
With Diablo IV still eyeing its June 6th open beta early access release date (in spite of reports of crunch casting doubt on that...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 400: A fireside chat with Justin and Bree
Justin and Bree discuss The Game Awards, Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Nightingale, Wayfinder, Dune Awakening, the FTC fighting Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard merger, ZeniMax's unionization effort, and Black Desert's Calpheon Ball, plus an epic Daily Grind showdown with topics ranging from the MMO regrets to the best elves.
New report on crunch at Diablo IV’s Blizzard Albany casts doubt on June 6, 2023, early access date
The Washington Post released a new expose of Diablo IV's Blizzard Albany yesterday afternoon, in which workers are skeptical about the June 6th early...
The Game Awards 2022: Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Wayfinder, Nightingale, Dune Awakening
We've updated with all the big news and trailers now - scroll down to the end for the announcements! Original post follows.
Gamers who aren't...
QA workers at Diablo IV studio unanimously vote to form a union
Activision-Blizzard has once more been thwarted in its efforts to stop workers at one of its studios from forming a union.
After fighting through months...
National Labor Relations Board denies Activision-Blizzard’s attempt to freeze Albany QA workers’ union vote
While this might have seemed like a Sisyphean effort on the part of Activision-Blizzard, it's still always good to know when flagrant unionbusting efforts...
Blizzard once again tries to delay Albany QA workers’ union vote through a request for review
Just because Blizzard was told "no" already apparently doesn't mean the company is giving up on stopping QA workers at Diablo IV developer Blizzard...
WoW Factor: So Blizzard just lost China
Sometimes it's not fun to work in this particular industry. Not in the sense that it's horrible, but in the sense that you've written...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2022: Blizzard MAUs and revenues are up as NetEase dispute looms on the horizon
Welcome back to our trimonthly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q3's results, comprising July, August, and September 2022....
Rumor: Diablo IV could release in April 2023, with pre-orders available during The Game Awards 2022
When can players expect to wander the darkity-dark of Diablo IV? Sometime in the first portion of 2023 if some rumors are to be...
Raven workers accuse Activision-Blizzard of ‘continued intransigence’ during union negotiations
Yesterday, we went in-depth on some of the ways Activision-Blizzard is attempting to obstruct the union forming within Diablo IV substudio Blizzard Albany, but...
Activision-Blizzard continues obstructing QA worker unionization with latest appeal
A few weeks ago, the QA division of Blizzard Albany - that is, the studio formerly known as Vicarious Visions that is working on...
Diablo IV devs talk up the ARPG’s ‘return to darkness’ in the tonal and literal sense
Dark. Darkity dark dark. Darkness. It's what the devs of Diablo IV have crowed about before, and it's the subject of discussion once again...
Betawatch: Interplanetary travel comes to Fractured Online
Got to be honest with you, folks, every time I see that Fractured Online has added interplanetary travel, my brain kind of does a...
