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Blizzard's 'Workplace Ranking' For Employees Sounds Like Hell
24.1.2023
A story ran on Bloomberg earlier today with the headline “Blizzard Manager Departs In Protest of Employee Ranking System”. It sounds very businessy, maybe something that would land on the Linkedin news feed of a HR manager, but the stuff it’s describing is important because it sounds absolutely...
Nifty News: Trump NFTs surge 800%, Yuga Labs blacklists NFT exchanges, and more
20.1.2023
Donald Trump’s NFT collection started out strong but then started looking lifeless up until a few days ago
Pro Overwatch Teams Reportedly Want Legal Fight Against Activision Over Money
19.1.2023
The Overwatch League, an officially funded esports event, has been dealing with declining viewership and issues with sponsors following Activision Blizzard’s ongoing workplace culture scandal. Now, based on a report from Jacob Wolf, it seems the teams Activision Blizzard employs to play the game...
NetEase Dissolves Team That Maintained Blizzard Games In China
13.1.2023
Back in November, Blizzard and NetEase ended their 14-year partnership to bring the Warcraft developer’s games to China. Now, it sounds like the NetEase team that handled the company’s games has been dissolved completely.Read more
Overwatch 2 Greek Myth Mode Immortalizes Top Players In A Cool Way
4.1.2023
If you’ve been hoping for a change of pace for Overwatch 2, a limited-time event is landing tomorrow that will mix things up a bit. Battle for Olympus introduces a limited-time free-for-all deathmatch mode featuring some new abilities for various heroes. The event promises some rewards for players...
Hot Damn: Another Activision Blizzard Studio Is Unionizing
27.12.2022
Developers at the Boston-based gaming studio Proletariat announced plans to unionize on Tuesday. If successful, roughly 60 employees there who worked on World of Warcraft’s new Dragonflight expansion would join the growing ranks of organized labor across parent company Activision Blizzard...
Activision Blizzard President Leaves To Take Over Bored Ape Yacht Club
20.12.2022
Activision Blizzard president and Chief Operating Officer Daniel Alegre is leaving the company to become CEO of blockchain company Yuga Labs, which owns famous ugly NFTs like Bored Ape and CryptoPunks. Alegre, who was named in a February lawsuit alleging Activision Blizzard misled the SEC about...
'Huge signal and validation' — Top Activision exec to take Yuga Labs' helm
20.12.2022
Kieran Warwick, co-founder of blockchain role-playing game Illuvium believes Yuga Labs latest hire will be a boon for GameFi
Yuga Labs Names Former Activision Blizzard President Daniel Alegre as New CEO
19.12.2022
The Bored Ape parent company said Alegre's previous gaming experience will help advance the brand's Otherside metaverse and propel its ambitions for an "immersive Web3 world."
New $100 Diablo IV ‘Collector’s Box’ Doesn’t Include Game
16.12.2022
Blizzard is now taking pre-orders on a large, nearly $100 special Diablo IV collector’s box which includes many things. But it doesn’t include the game. And while Blizzard isn’t trying to trick people into accidentally buying this game-free box, it still seems very odd that there’s not even...
Jeden z původních mozků Blizzardu se vrací jako kreativní poradce Warcraftu
16.12.2022
O studiu Blizzard píšeme poslední době hlavně ve spojitosti se skandály, odchody a obsahem, který nenaplnil očekávání hráčů. Tentokrát ovšem máme jednu dobrou zprávu. Asi ty Vánoce
Blizzard Legend Chris Metzen Returns To Company
16.12.2022
Blizzard in 2022 is a vastly different company to the one so many became fans of in the 1990s and 2000s, partly because it is now owned by Activision, but mostly because that was a long time ago and most of the people who made the games you love have left!Read more
The 10 Most Stunning Uses Of Snow In Video Games
13.12.2022
I always liked the idea of snow more than shoveling it or letting it fall into my boots. When I lived in Western New York state—one of the snowiest places in the U.S.—every snowdrift pressed against my front door or patch of slush I’d sink into on my walk to school would make me huff white clouds...
FTC opposes Microsoft's metaverse-focused Activision Blizzard purchase
13.12.2022
Microsoft CEO and chairman Satya Nadella had previously stated that the acquisition of Activision Blizzard would “play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms.”
Je to tady, americké úřady blokují největší akvizici v herní historii
9.12.2022
Situace, o které se celý rok spekulovalo, je nakonec skutečností. Převzetí společnosti Activision firmou Microsoft budou blokovat americké úřady kvůli hrozbě ohrožení hospodářské soutěže. Microsoft se hodlá bránit u soudu
Diablo IV Release Date Announced At The Game Awards
9.12.2022
We’ve known that Diablo IV has been coming for three years now, and Blizzard has finally announced a release date for when we can all literally go to hell. Oh, and Halsey was there too. Here’s the cinematic trailer from The Game Awards:Read more
Report: Diablo IV Devs Say June Release Date Will Lead To More Crunch
8.12.2022
Loot action-RPG Diablo IV received glowing previews this week and is expected to appear at the 2022 edition of The Game Awards Thursday night. But some of the game’s developers tell the The Washington Post that production might not wrap in time for a planned June 2023 release date unless they...
Feds Sue To Prevent Microsoft’s Activision Deal From Going Through
8.12.2022
According to a report from the Washington Post, the Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on the grounds that the deal would threaten to suppress competition within the gaming industry.Read more
Bitva o Call of Duty. Microsoft se chce na deset let zavázat Sony i Nintendu
7.12.2022
Pokud regulátoři schválí obří akvizici, v rámci níž se vydavatelství Activision Blizzard stane součástí Microsoftu, na platformu od Nintenda se vrátí série Call of Duty. Nabídku na pokračování spolupráce dostalo i Sony
2022 Was The Year The Video Game Industry Ate Itself
6.12.2022
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Epic Games bought Mediatonic (Fall Guys), Sony bought Housemarque (Returnal), and Embracer bought Gearbox (Borderlands). It seemed like things might slow down in 2022, but instead they ramped up even more into an acquisition free-for-all....