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Read More »Blizzard and NetEase renew WoW licence deal
Blizzard and NetEase have announced a renewed licensing agreement to operate World of Warcraft in China. The new deal takes care of any potential concerns ahead of the upcoming launch of Mists of Pandaria, the fourth major expansion for the MMO. The companies originally came together back in 2009, with …
Read More »Blizzard: WoW on iOS remains a possibility
World of Warcraft could yet be released on iOS, providing developer Blizzard can find a way of acceptably mapping the MMO’s controls onto touch screens You’ve got to put an interface, what do you do?” WoW senior producer John Lagrave told Eurogamer. Maybe we’ll stumble on the great way to …
Read More »Diablo III gets May 15th release date
Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that the hotly anticipated Diablo III will be released on PC and Mac on May 15th. The game will be released simultaneously across the globe and can be purchased either from retail or directly from Blizzard’s Battle.net website. Alongside the English language version the game will …
Read More »600 jobs lost at Blizzard
World of Warcraft house Blizzard Entertainment is to begin a global downsizing operation that will result in 600 job losses. The company claims that about sixty of these redundancies will come directly from game development, while the majority of redundancies affecting other areas of the business. Existing development and publishing …
Read More »Blizzard to axe 600 jobs
About sixty redundancies to directly hit development teams; vast majority of cuts to affect other departments
Read More »Next Blizzard game "will be free-to-play"
Blizzard Entertainment is the next major games studio to embrace free-to-play and will apply the model in an upcoming, as yet unannounced game, Develop understands. Following some eight years of success with its trailblazing MMO World of Warcraft, it is said that the California studio will expand business opportunities and …
Read More »New Blizzard game ‘to be free-to-play’
World of Warcraft developer to continue experimenting with monetisation models
Read More »Blizzard curbs World of Warcraft exodus
A total of 100,000 World of Warcraft subscribers left the PC MMO during the three months ending December 31st, according to financial documents filed by Activision Blizzard. An aggressive marketing campaign for the game featuring martial arts icon and actor Chuck Norris may have pulled in enough new subscribers to …
Read More »Blizzard sues Valve over Dota trademark
PC giants take their dispute to the courts
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