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Activision-Blizzard offers (some) hard numbers on its harassment and discrimination problem
Within the Variety puff piece on Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick earlier this week, Kotick insisted that the volumes of harassment accusations against the company...
Bobby Kotick decries ‘aggressive labor movement’ trying to ‘destabilize’ Activision-Blizzard
We're just a few days from the launch of Diablo IV, so naturally Variety has offered up a mushy interview with... Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick,...
South Korea approves merger of Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard as both companies continue to fight UK regulators
There has been another plodding step forward in Microsoft's billion-dollar buyout of Activision-Blizzard, as reports from Korea Xbox News have now confirmed that South...
Blizzard suggests WoW Token RMT in WoW Classic is ‘for the good of the community’ because of RMT bots
World of Warcraft's WoW Classic community has been on fire for the last few days following Blizzard's announcement that it will port the WoW...
Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard gets full clearance from China
Microsoft has cleared yet another hurdle in its slow subsumption of Activision-Blizzard, as China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has completed its investigation of...
Wisdom of Nym: Top takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s The Dark Throne patch notes
I have to say that whole "preliminary" patch notes thing that Final Fantasy XIV has been pulling for years now has begun to wear...
The EU has conditionally approved Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard
Today's Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout news won't come as a surprise to anyone who read the leaks last week, but yes, EU regulators have officially...
UK government body issues order that blocks Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard from ‘acquiring an interest’ in each other
Despite the multi-billion dollar deal between Activision-Blizzard and Microsoft slowly making forward movement in multiple smaller markets and potentially one very large market, the...
Blizzard devs lament talent bleed and Diablo IV support capacity following return-to-office mandate
Last month, we reported on a producer for World of Warcraft who expressed his frustration about seeing developers leave Blizzard, saying the team has...
The EU is apparently set to approve Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard buyout after all
When the UK's Competition and Markets Authority put the brakes on Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard at the end of April, we saw multiple pundits...
Diablo Immortal preps S13 as Diablo 2 Resurrected talks grind and Diablo IV readies server slam weekend
Blizzard's Diablo franchise is a busy bee this week, starting with a length post on the Battlenet blog about Diablo II Resurrected in which...
Lawful Neutral: What if Activision-Blizzard just… sold Blizzard?
Last week, Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick got a bad surprise: The UK moved to block the acquisition of ABK by Microsoft, citing concerns over...
Redfall’s messy release prompts apology from Xbox’s Phil Spencer
Some vampires need to be staked right out of the coffin.
This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Bethesda and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
WoW Factor: Dragonflight wasn’t a hit – so now what?
All right, let's be real and acknowledge that the recent Activision-Blizzard earning report did not say outright that World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was an out-and-out...
Block of Activision-Blizzard merger is ‘darkest day’ for Microsoft in the UK, Brad Smith argues
Following the UK's Competition and Markets Authority block of Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout earlier this week - and the rushed dump of the latter's middle...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2023: ABK revenues are up as Blizzard MAUs fall back down to reality
Activision blinked: Activision-Blizzard wasn't supposed to release its Q1 2023 financials until tomorrow after the bell, but it's just done it this morning out of...
UK regulators block Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard
Multiple outlets are reporting this morning that Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard has been blocked in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority aka CMA...
NetEase is suing Blizzard for 300M CN¥ over licensing agreements [Updated]
We've updated this story at the end as NetEase's name has been removed from the lawsuit. The original article follows.
If you thought the NetEase...
Microsoft president and US intel say Russian operatives are targeting gaming for espionage
Earlier this week, we covered the bizarre but sadly believable news that the military secrets leak every major newspaper is currently focused on may...
