Blizzard fire World Of Warcraft developer over use of forbidden magicks to insta-kill bosses for regular players during dungeon run
… Blizzard, however, have decided that more action than that is necessary after investigating what happened. …
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Blizzard Entertainment is a video game developer and publisher known for franchises such as Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch.
"We will do better": Blizzard are sorry World of Warcraft's prop hunt patch launched with an X-ray vision exploit and plenty of other pesky bugs
… As Kotaku 's Rebecca Valentine documented, those two issues have been far from the only ones, hence Blizzard having to rush to their tools and get repairing. …
State of Decay studio Undead Labs potentially up for closure, sources claim, with Bethesda and Blizzard also facing layoffs
… Games Beat joined a call organised by the CWA yesterday, in which union members at Blizzard, ZeniMax Online, and Activision Publishing reflected on what it's like working for a company that can't seem to go a year without chopping thousands of jobs. “Every time these layoffs happen, we lose incredi… …
"We're going to lay off 1,000 people and that's going to be on you": Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan says redundancy ultimatum led to his Blizzard exit
… Armin Zerza subsequently took over as Blizzard CFO from April 2021 to May 2025. Kaplan's departure from Blizzard was announced by the publisher on April 20th, 2021. …
A year on from its launch, former Blizzard devs' Wildgate only has one last update left, but it's not shutting down
A year on from its launch, former Blizzard devs' Wildgate only has one last update left, but it's not shutting down
Is Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal paying off? Xbox boss Asha Sharma says it's "hard to say how to think about those decisions"
… I love Activision Blizzard King." Then, things got a lot more intriguing. …
Is a blizzardy Skyrim return persuading me to retry Elder Scrolls Online? Not really, but naval combat and underwater exploration might
… They've not revealed which region yet, but the fact this is going to be a dynamically blizzardy "first-ever Excursion Zone" seems to be hinting at Winterhold or The Pale as strong candidates, with Whiterun's tundra as another. …
"Seven or eight years is not that unusual": Diablo 4 lead says AAA games are taking longer to make, which is bad news for junior applicants
The biggest videogames are taking longer to make, according to Diablo 4 lead engine engineer Marcin Undak, and one consequence is that there are fewer junior openings at industry dreadnoughts like Blizzard and CD Projekt, because companies prefer to hire juniors right at the start of development. …
Psychonauts developer Double Fine are the latest Microsoft-owned studio to unionise
… Along the way, World of Warcraft and other Blizzard devs , workers at Doom studio Id Software , Call of Duty QA staff , and Zenimax QA workers have all formed unions of their own by working with the CWA. …
"We have found ourselves over extended", new Xbox CEO says amid reports of plans for major job cuts
… Also, if you include the Activision Blizzard King buyout a purchase Sharma was openly questioning just last week and that investment number jumps to nearly $80 billion. …