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Blizzard ends new content development for Warcraft Rumble and lays off staff: Former employee says 'most' of the team has been let go
L ess than a year after making its debut on PC, the real-time strategy game Warcraft Rumble has reached the end of the line.
Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game
Microsoft’s layoff of roughly 9,000 employees is continuing to have downstream effects at the company’s subsidiaries.
Blizzard is giving up on its Warcraft mobile game amid layoffs
It's nearly the end of the road for Warcraft Rumble. Blizzard has announced that it will no longer be developing new content ...
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Blizzard Watch Podcast: Ghosts of K’aresh, from Tazavesh to Manaforge Omega
Ghosts of K'aresh, the upcoming content update for World of Warcraft, is the lead news for the show this week, because it was ...
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NetEase is Not Suing Blizzard After All, Just One Lawsuit-Happy Guy Is Behind the New Filing - MMORPG.com
After reports that NetEase, Blizzard's former publishing partner in China, was suing the company, it turns out, the suit was filed by just one guy unaffiliated with NetEase.
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After 12 years at Blizzard, Warcraft general manager John Hight announces departure: 'I've been so honored to serve all of the heroes of Azeroth' - PC Gamer
Hight's legacy at Blizzard will be the people he encouraged: "This goofy little guy saw my potential and gave me a shot." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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Why WoW Subscription Prices Have Never Gone Up--"It's A Prickly Audience" - GameSpot
Prior to returning to Blizzard, Kotick said Metzen believed WoW's upcoming expansions were in bad shape, and Kotick "begged him" to return in order to fix them. "Just come do it, you're the guy ...
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Blizzard says 'come back in, the water's lovely' to lapsed WoW players - PC Gamer
In the run up to the full release of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Blizzard is thinking about all those millions of lapsed WoW accounts. You know the kind. That guy in the office who once had a ...
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Activision Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft’ game developers vote to unionize - Los Angeles Times
The more than 500 game developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on the blockbuster video game “World of Warcraft” have elected to form a union, marking the latest entrant in a wave of ...
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There May Never Be Another Game Developer as Successful and Chaotic as Blizzard - Gizmodo
Blizzard, the developer behind landmark series like Diablo, Warcraft, and Overwatch, struck gold repeatedly for over two decades. According to Jason Schreier, a Bloomberg reporter and author of ...
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John Hight, head of the Warcraft franchise, is leaving Blizzard after almost 13 years at the company - VG247
General manager over the Warcraft franchise at Blizzard John Hight has announced he's leaving the company after almost 13 years. Earlier this week, Hight shared on his personal Twitter that he is ...
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'Play Nice': The inside story of Blizzard Entertainment's billion-dollar games and controversies | Here & Now - WBUR
Blizzard Entertainment started as a humble game studio in southern California before hits like "StarCraft" and "World of Warcraft" transformed it into a media juggernaut that made billions of ...