How Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
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Activision Blizzard hires union-busting firm as workers start to come together
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Blizzard recruiters asked hacker if she ‘liked being penetrated’ at job fair
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Activision Blizzard employees are walking out in protest
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Inside Blizzard developers’ infamous Bill ‘Cosby Suite’
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Activision Blizzard sued by California over ‘frat boy’ culture
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Blizzard botched Warcraft III remake after internal fights, pressure over costs
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World of Warcraft players are hosting sit-in protests after Blizzard allegations
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The inside story of Blizzard's departures and a company at a crossroads
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Frost Giant enters pre-production on new RTS
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BlizzCon 2021 announcements/trailers/etc
Figured I'd start putting together a thread as the flood of announcements and articles start coming out from this year's BlizzCon. The site, where you can pick which streaming "channel" to watch:...
Figured I'd start putting together a thread as the flood of announcements and articles start coming out from this year's BlizzCon.
The site, where you can pick which streaming "channel" to watch: https://blizzcon.com/
Full schedule: https://blizzcon.com/en-us/schedule
Opening ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyApQc-ZmSA
Diablo IV
- Blizzard on Diablo 4's Rogue and how PvP works within the open world
- Diablo IV: What's Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO3LQqpiBvQ
Diablo II: Resurrected
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRP62MGOrUo
- Interview on Eurogamer: The big Diablo 2 Resurrected interview
- Some more details on Ars: Diablo II Resurrected tops BlizzCon announcement flurry
- Diablo II: Resurrected - Deep Dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dL7ZeIAsE
World of Warcraft
- World of Warcraft Classic will be extended to include first expansion The Burning Crusade this year, along with paid character cloning and boosts, and "pre-nerf" raid bosses.
Overwatch 2
- Behind the Scenes of Overwatch 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRj-GotnNaQ
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The full schedule for BlizzCon 2021 has been released - Streaming free online on February 19-20
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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion delayed until later this year
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Mike Morhaime founds new games company, Dreamhaven
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StarCraft II turns ten, gets a major map editor patch
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Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy
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World of Warcraft's game director Ion Hazzikostas on how the game's culture has evolved with the internet
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Diablo IV - February 2020 quarterly update
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Blizzard's long history of manic pixie nightmare girls and fear of women
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Warcraft III: Reforged - Developer update, including plans for upcoming changes and some concerns that will not be addressed
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Warcraft III: Reforged—the re-creation of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne—is now available worldwide
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Overwatch Developer Update - Starting in March, "Hero Pools" will be introduced to competitive play, where different heroes will be disabled every week to encourage players to change strategies
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The team behind Warcraft III looks back at the game that birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing
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People Make Games travels to Hong Kong to interview Blitzchung, the Hearthstone pro banned by Blizzard last year
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Diablo IV announced at Blizzcon 2019
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Blizzard confirms departure of veteran developers amid cancelled projects
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BlizzCon 2019 opening ceremony
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Overwatch 2 to feature PvE, new map, at least one new hero
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Chinese-British citizen posts detailed explanation of reasoning behind Chinese views on Hong Kong/China/Blizzard situation
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Official Blizzard statement about Blitzchung's punishment at the Hearthstone Grandmasters tournament
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Blitzchung's personal statement on Blizzard and his ban after voicing support for HK
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Mark Kern, Classic WoW dev, on why he is boycotting Blizzard
@grummz: This hurts. But until Blizzard reverses their decision on @blitzchungHS I am giving up playing Classic WoW, which I helped make and helped convince Blizzard to relaunch. There will be no Mark of Kern guild after all. Let me explain why I am #BoycottBlizzard
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Hearthstone player banned from Grandmasters Tournament for voicing support for HK protestors
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UkDrillas announce intention to DDOS WoW Classic Servers
@ukdrillas: In roughly 20-30mins. Will attack every US PVP WoW server. Just setting up domain =)
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Gnome mage "Jokerd" reaches level cap in World of Warcraft Classic in 3 days and 7 hours, in front of 350,000 viewers on Twitch
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World of Warcraft Classic's game director Ion Hazzikostas reflects on the genesis of the idea, its challenging development, and the importance of a unified community
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities
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You can now play the original Diablo in a web browser
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Overwatch - Sigma - Origin story (new hero, coming soon)
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Frank Pearce (one of Blizzard's three founders) announces his departure from the company
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Dungeon generation in Diablo 1
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Overwatch - Introducing the Role Queue system
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Overwatch's third anniversary: Free to try this week, past seasonal brawls featured every day, and more
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The subtle economics of private World of Warcraft servers: Anarchy, order and who gets the loot
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World of Warcraft Classic goes live worldwide August 27
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Introducing the Overwatch Workshop
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Blizzard releases the PVP content plan for WoW Classic
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Hearthstone's next expansion, "Rise of Shadows" will launch on April 9
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Activision Blizzard laying off hundreds of employees
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Square poaches Blizzard Entertainment CFO, just days after Netflix poaches Activision Blizzard CFO
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