World of Warcraft’s team is taking small steps to fix the game’s toxicity
World of Warcraft‘s team has been making some small adjustments to the game, renaming quests and characters that had innuendo-laden names and removing some...
Blizzard chief legal officer leaves the Warcraft publisher
The top attorney for Diablo publisher Blizzard Entertainment has stepped down. In a post on her LinkedIn account, chief legal officer Claire Hart announced...
Final Fantasy XIV details plan to handle the surge of new players
Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida posted an online letter today detailing the MMO’s plans to address the recent influx of new...
Overwolf will pay out $29M to mod and app creators in 2021
Overwolf rebranded itself this week as a guild of in-game creators. And it is announcing today that it expects to pay out $29 million...
Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty drives 27% Q1 2020 revenue growth to $2.28 billion
Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street’s expectations with 27% revenue growth to $2.28 billion for the first quarter ended March 31....
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands review — A modern feel for a venerated MMORPG
Shadowlands, World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, takes the muddled mess that the previous Battle for Azeroth expansion became and sorts it into a beautiful,...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands breaks record for biggest PC game launch
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Shadowlands, sold over 3.7 million copies on its launch day, November 23. That breaks...
Shadowlands looks to move World of Warcraft forward by learning from its past
World of Warcraft is gearing up for its next expansion, Shadowlands. After a lukewarm response from many players toward Battle for Azeroth, Shadowlands is...
In World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, new game tech and old code are at war
Game director Ion Hazzikostas faces a rough challenge for this fall’s World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion. Blizzard Entertainment must make a (sometimes poorly) aging...
Blizzard cofounder Mike Morhaime: Shared experiences are key to success in gaming
Mike Morhaime is the cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, and he was president and CEO of the World of Warcraft developer until 2018. Since then,...