Gaming giant Blizzard’s new Overwatch 2 game will reportedly collect voice chat recordings from some players and require players to attach a phone number to their account. It’s the latest step from a high tech company building towards a China-style social credit system.
Activision Blizzard is feeling the heat of backlash for promoting Black Lives Matter after banning an e-sports champion for making comments in favor of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Blizzard faced harsh criticism for appeasing China from U.S senators on both sides of the aisle this week.
Over the past week, we’ve witnessed two iconic American brands, the NBA and Blizzard Entertainment, grovel to communist China, betraying American values in the process. I propose a new phrase for this sort of behavior: “corporate communism.”
Veteran software developer Mark Kern, who served as a Team Lead for Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, published a long, sad thread to Twitter on Tuesday, calling out the company’s decisions — and their Chinese investor, Tencent.
Blizzard will be pushing out a “20th Anniversary” patch to Diablo III this week that will add the original Diablo campaign to the game, and it’s already getting a lot of attention.
Blizzard has updated Overwatch character Tracer’s infamous “butt pose” with what might be the perfect response.
Following extensive discussion in a forum post started by one of its customers, developer Blizzard has decided to remove a victory pose for Tracer, one of the character in their upcoming MOBA-shooter Overwatch, for supposedly being too sexual.
Breitbart has learned that Blizzard has reportedly contacted organisations under the umbrella of the Korean eSports Association (KeSPA) and organisations with South Korean players to inform them of drastic changes coming to the next season of their World Championship Series for StarCraft 2.
Blizzard Entertainment, the developer behind such universally acclaimed classics as the Warcraft, StarCraft, and the Diablo series, have found themselves accused of “stealing” source code from a programmer who created a hack for one of their latest titles.
The cinematic trailer for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, the final expansion in Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft II real-time strategy game trilogy.
This BlizzCon trailer for Heroes of the Storm shows off several new heroes and battlegrounds that are coming to Blizzard Entertainment’s MOBA, Heroes of the Storm.
The cinematic trailer for World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, Legion, from Blizzard Entertainment’s Blizzcon convention.
