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Blizzard Gives Overwatch 2 Players Kiriko For Free But Defends Its Battle Pass System
15.9.2022
Blizzard just announced that the new (and widely leaked) ninja character Kiriko will be free for all Overwatch 2 players who already own a copy of the original Overwatch. While that seems like cause to celebrate, the controversial, free-to-play sequel’s move to lock access to most future characters...
New Overwatch 2 Hero Leaks: A Teleporting Fox Girl Who Plays Support
9.9.2022
Well, Blizzard’s surprise has been spoiled. Late last night, a YouTuber named Kuriboh cervantes uploaded a video revealing Overwatch 2's newest hero, Kiriko. The company tried cracking down on the content, an unfinished animated short that gives a bit of backstory to who Kiriko is and shows...
PlayStation Boss Calls Out Microsoft Over 'Inadequate' Call Of Duty Deal
7.9.2022
The console war custody battle over Call of Duty has taken an unlikely turn. In an industry notorious for secrecy and backroom deals, two of the biggest executives in gaming are hashing it out in public. A week after Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said Activision’s hit shooter would remain...
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Skeptical About Metaverse, Criticizes Play-to-Earn Models
30.8.2022
Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox brand, believes that the metaverse has been with us since 30 years ago, when digital gaming was largely introduced. However, Spencer criticized play-to-earn (P2E) models, stating that they create a workforce out of a kind of gamer who needs to monetize the time spent...
Xbox Boss Says Exclusives Aren’t The Future While Company Buys Up Exclusives
25.8.2022
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, recently described the progress of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard as heading in a “positive direction,” as the company awaits regulatory approval of the deal that would see it owning wildly popular franchises such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft....
Overwatch's Paid Loot Boxes Are Finally Going Away
10.8.2022
Overwatch’s Loot Boxes may not have been the first in video game history, but they quickly became one of the most important, even if we were sick of them as early as June 2016, which was...one month after the game’s release.Read more
Diablo IV Leaks Send Blizzard Into Damage Control
8.8.2022
It’s been a week since the Diablo 4 beta test started, and players are already leaking footage of the game on the internet. What’s funny is that the screenshots have the testers’ identifying number all over them, which means that Blizzard likely already knows who these people are.Read more
Activision má více peněz z mobilních her než z PC a konzolí dohromady
8.8.2022
Herní vydavatelství Activision Blizzard se pochlubilo finančními výsledky za poslední čtvrtletí. Mimo jiné z nich vyplývá, že opovrhované mobilní hry vydělávají více peněz než ty „veliké“ na konzole a PC
Someone Spent Six Years Remastering An Unreleased Warcraft Game
5.8.2022
Years ago, a never-officially-released Warcraft point-and-click adventure game developed by Blizzard in the late ‘90s was leaked online. While the game was completely playable back then, its cutscenes were low-quality, highly compressed, not perfectly synced to the audio, and a few were even just...
Diablo Devs Say Activision Back To Its Old ‘Union-Busting’ Tricks
4.8.2022
Nearly two months after Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick announced the company would finally begin bargaining its first union contract with the Game Workers Alliance at Raven Software, staff at Blizzard Albany, currently working on Diablo IV, say the publisher is back to trying to union-bust....
Diablo Immortal Player Says He Can’t Get A Match After Spending $100,000
1.8.2022
Diablo Immortal’s pay-to-win mechanics have been controversial since the game launched back in June. Now they’ve also apparently broken the game for at least one YouTuber who reportedly spent over $100,000 on beefing up his Barbarian character. The player’s win rate is seemingly so good the game...
Blizzard Asks Overwatch Players If They'd Pay $45 For A Skin
1.8.2022
Those dastardly loot boxes containing randomized goodies might be a thing of the past come Overwatch 2’s launch later this year, but a recent survey suggests the hero shooter’s monetization may become more aggressive elsewhere.Read more
Blizzard Screws Up Overwatch Comp Rules, Teams 'Strike' In Protest
29.7.2022
During a recent Overwatch Contenders tournament, Blizzard told two teams that they’d be playing a best-of-seven showdown. Then, halfway through, said it would be a best-of-five and pulled the pin on what was looking like an incredible comeback. That, understandably, did not go down well.Read more
Blizzard nabízí Diablo 4 zdarma, pokud si necháte vytetovat motiv z hry
25.7.2022
Společnost Blizzard zvolila pro propagaci chystaného čtvrtého dílu akčního RPG Diablo neobvyklou formu. Každému, kdo si v rámci jejich putovní show nechá udělat tetování s tematikou kultovní hry, slibuje, že ji dostane v budoucnosti zdarma a navíc ještě s přednostním přístupem oproti ostatním
Activision Blizzard Workers Walk Out Over Lack Of Roe v. Wade Support
21.7.2022
Employees from Activision Blizzard walked off their jobs today in order to demand protections for the staff members impacted by the loss of abortion rights in the United States. The walkouts impacted studios in California, Texas, Minnesota, and New York. Read more
Activision's Former Tony Hawk Studio Is Unionizing
19.7.2022
Blizzard Albany, previously known as Vicarious Visions, is the latest Activision studio to launch a unionization effort. Roughly 20 quality assurance staff at the office which remastered Diablo II last year have called on the publisher to voluntarily recognize the union, calling it “a seat at...
Hearthstone Is Randomly Awarding Some Players A Ton Of Free Packs
8.7.2022
It’s been a hot minute since I traded rungs in the middle of the Hearthstone seasonal ranked ladder. But some players who recently returned to Blizzard’s take on Magic: The Gathering were greeted with a generous surprise: dozens of free card packs. Before you go getting your hopes up, however,...
Blizzard „je odhodlán“ příští rok vzkřísit akci BlizzCon
8.7.2022
Akce Blizzcon, která oslavuje hry studia Blizzard, tedy značky Diablo, Warcraft, Overwatch a Starcraft by se po tříleté pauze měla vrátit v plné parádě
Blizzard Boss Defends Diablo Immortal, Feels ‘Really Good’ About Its Launch
8.7.2022
Blizzard’s controversial Diablo Immortal launched to big numbers and high revenue. It also set off an ongoing debate about in-game purchases, digital gambling, free-to-play mobile games, and addiction. The massive publisher has mostly remained silent amid the negative headlines and criticism....
Despite Backlash, Diablo Immortal Is Making A Million Dollars A Day
6.7.2022
In its first month of release Blizzard’s controversial new mobile game, Diablo Immortal, has racked up nearly $50 million in reported revenue across 10 million downloads. Even as debates and criticism swirled around the free-to-play RPG, data shows that the game has made at least $1 million a...