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Blizzard
Blizzard Announces Actions to Support Black Community, Colleagues, And Partners
Blizzard President, J. Allen Brack, has published an article talking about actions to support the Black Community in Blizzard games.
Blizzard
Felfire Festival - Hearthstone Topdecks Coverage
Looking for some more Warcraft-themed content? Check out Hearthstone's Felfire Festival, set in a zany version of the Burning Crusade with Outland and the Rusted Legion!
Blizzard
Activision Blizzard Pledges $4 Million to Fight Against Systemic Inequality
Activision Blizzard issued a statement on Twitter, pledging several million in donations to the United Negro College Fund, the Equal Justice Initiative, and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, with a stated goal of raising $4 million for those organizations. Blizzard Entertainment quickly followed with a statement of further support, citing this was just the beginning.
Blizzard
BlizzCon 2020 Cancelled - Possible Virtual Event Early 2021
Blizzard has officially announced that there won't be an edition of BlizzCon in 2020 in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, they are planning an event for early 2021 to have in its place.
Blizzard
Small World of Warcraft - New Board Game Coming Soon
Blizzard and Days of Wonder have teamed up for Small World of Warcraft, a board game designed for 2-5 players based on the Small World universe. Days of Wonder is a board game publisher owned by Asmodee, which has also created the popular games Ticket to Ride and Memoir'44.
Diablo IV
Project Fenris Vendor Product - Possible Diablo IV Encrypted Build
Blizzard CDNs have updated with the first Project Fenris vendor build. As Fenris is the code name for
Diablo IV
, reported on
by Kotaku in 2018
, this build could quite possibly be for the latest
Diablo
installment.
Blizzard
J. Allen Brack on the World of Warcraft Social Experience
While answering a question regarding sustaining subscriber trends during the Activision-Blizzard earning report, president J. Allen Brack asserted that World of Warcraft is just as social as the day it launched.
Blizzard
Blizzard Hiring for Unannounced Mobile Project
Blizzard has put up new job listings for an unannounced mobile project, reminding us of the BlizzCon 2018 claim that more mobile titles are in development across all Blizzard IPs.
Blizzard
Activision Blizzard Q1 2020 Earnings Report - Warcraft's Active Player Community Growing
Activision Blizzard had its 1st Quarter 2020 Results Conference Call today, highlighting the company's results for the first three months of 2020. For those unfamiliar with those conference calls, they are held by Activision Blizzard to inform their investors about financial results every three months, including highlights from their games and plans for the future. Keep in mind that these results pertain to all of Activision Blizzard and their subsidiaries, of which Blizzard Entertainment is just one studio.
Blizzard
Mike Morhaime on Accessibility and Declining Social Experiences in WoW
Mike Morhaime, cofounder and former CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, spoke with Seth Schiesel of the New York Times at the
VentureBeat GameBeat Summit
yesterday, and while many topics were discussed, the former president had some interesting things to say about the evolution of World of Warcraft and the MMO genre.
Blizzard
Blizzard's Virtual Take Your Child to Work Day - Samwise Didier Tutorials, Chris Metzen Storytime
Blizzard shared their virtual Take Your Child to Work Day celebration, which included art tutorials by Samwise Didier, and a video of Chris Metzen reading his book Snow Fight: A Warcraft Tale.
Blizzard
A Note About BlizzCon 2020 - BlizzCon Might Not Be Feasible
Blizzard has posted an official note about BlizzCon 2020 on its website, explaining the current situation. Currently, due to the Covid19 pandemic, they aren't sure if the event will happen and are still evaluating the situation. They will share more information as soon as it is decided to prepare the community.
Blizzard
Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone goes Burning Crusade
With the upcoming Year of the Phoenix and its first expansion, Ashes of Outland, a phoenix called Hearthstone once again rises from the nutritious ashes that are the roots of the Warcraft universe.
Blizzard
The Year of the Phoenix and Ashes of Outland come to Hearthstone
March Madness has come upon the Hearthstone community in the best possible way: During yesterday’s Hearthstone announcement stream, Team 5 - represented by
Dean “Iksar” Ayala
and
Chadd “Celestalon” Nervig
- bombarded not only host Brian Kibler but also the whole spectatorship with what has to be
the most gargantuan content update in the history of Blizzard’s card game
.
Blizzard
Corrupted Blood Incident Is Helping Researchers With The Fight on Coronavirus
For long-time WoW players, the recent Coronavirus pandemic is not the first time they have been dealing with a global-scale disease. In September of 2005, with the original release of the
Zul'Gurub
raid, a virtual plague broke out of the raid and proceeded to kill off entire servers for an entire week. Although the so-called Corrupted Blood incident did not cause any real-life deaths, the virtual pandemic did captivate scientists who played WoW.
In 2007, a research paper was written, mentioning how WoW's original disease spread could be used as a tool to model future epidemics in the real world, and now, more than a decade later, the same paper is being used to help scientists research a cure for the Coronavirus. In an interview with
PC Gamer
, researchers mention how the Corrupted Blood incident is helping the fight on the most recent epidemic.
Blizzard
Blizzard Implementing Work-From-Home Policies in Answer to Coronavirus Pandemic
In light of the global COVID19 pandemic, Blizzard has announced that they will be implementing work-from-home policies for both their Irvine and Austin offices.
Blizzard
Daniel Alegre Announced as New Activision Blizzard President and COO
Activision Blizzard has named Daniel Alegre as their new President and Chief Operating Officer. Daniel will assume its new roles starting April 7th, reporting directly to Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick.
Diablo IV
Diablo IV Quarterly Update for February 2020 - UI Design and Monster Families
Diablo IV's long-awaited quarterly update is finally here and it's a double-header! Angela Del Priore, Lead UI Designer, discusses BlizzCon demo feedback, controller support on PC, and couch co-op, while Candace Thomas, Senior Encounter Designer reveals the Cannibal Tribe monster family.
Blizzard
A WoW Music Festival Will Be Held in Shanghai, China on March 14
A WoW Music Festival in Shanghai, China will happen on March 14th! The festival will feature classical WoW music remixed into more modern music styles.
Blizzard
Diablo Anime on Netflix and Overwatch Cartoon Reportedly In The Making
Diablo and Overwatch are both getting animated series based on them, according to the LinkedIn profile of Nick van Dyk, President of the film and television division of Activision Blizzard.
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