“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” -Mark Twain “CliffyB is an out of touch fossil who needs to permanently retire.” -Me Cliff Bleszinski is back folks, and he’s ready to give us all some learnin’ with the … Continue reading “[Rant] CliffyB Still Doesn’t Get It, Blames Lawbreakers’ ‘Wokeness’ For Failure”
Google and Activision Blizzard today announced that the two companies will be joining forces to power new player experiences. Activision Blizzard will use Google Cloud services to power their game hosting infrastructures while Youtube will play exclusive host to live broadcasts of eSports and other events (excluding China). In other words, Youtube will be hosting … Continue reading “Streaming Buddies: Activision Blizzard Partners With Google Cloud”
2K Games announced this week that the Battleborn servers will shut down as of January 2021, leading everyone to ask the same question; “Battleborn’s servers were still online?” Battleborn famously launched in May 2016 and became known as the game killed in the crib by Overwatch which released just three weeks after. Following a steep … Continue reading “Battleborn Rendered Unplayable In January 2021”
The success of World of Warcraft Classic could only come as a shock to J. Allen “You think you do but you don’t” Brack, but to the rest of the world the idea that the classic servers brought back a lot of players isn’t surprising in the least. Activision released their third quarter statements for … Continue reading “Call of Duty, WoW Classic Make Activision Blizzard Mucho Dinero”
As I have said over the past couple of weeks, the best thing that Blizzard could do with Blizzcon 2019 is to give the audience what they want. Blizzcon 2019 is officially upon us and it started with President J. Allen Brack coming out and apologizing for the company’s actions and response to criticism following … Continue reading “Blizzcon 2019: Blizzard Eats Humble Pie, Gives Audience What They Want”
Now I’m mad at Blizzard just as much as the next guy, which is why this article is going to hurt me more than it does the people who I am about to point out. Today is October 31, 2019 of the year of Arnold, and that can only mean one thing; it’s time for … Continue reading “Nontroversial: Blizzard and the Disappearing Half Million”
Another day, another Activision subsidiary acting in a heartless, sociopathic manner. The Hearthstone 2019 Grandmasters took place this week, and very likely the only thing the public will remember of it once all is said and done is that Blizzard once again kowtowed to an abusive dictatorship because that sweet, sweet cash is just to … Continue reading “Rant: Blizzard Robs Hearthstone Player Of Winnings To Appease China”
A South Korean law passed last year has gone into effect, and it threatens to throw paid account boosters in prison. Last year the Korean government passed a new law banning the use and advertising of powerleveling services. The provisions of the law, below in their original Korean, were translated by Reddit user Evenstar6132 and … Continue reading “IPE Update: Paid Account Boosting Now Illegal In South Korea”
Nobody likes a cheater, I know this because of how many times the phrase has appeared in court dockets whenever Epic Games takes a Fortnite cheater to court, but Blizzard really hates toxic gamers and isn’t afraid of laying down the banhammer to let them know just how unwelcome they are. Case in point, Blizzard’s … Continue reading “Blizzard Releases Over 18,000 Partial Usernames Of Toxic Players (From Korea)”
Korea. It’s a country where you can be jailed for cheating at video games, now one you can be arrested for selling account boosting services. Today’s news comes from ESTNN, an e-sports website. The Korean government has passed a law set to go into effect in six months that will see professional account boosting, being … Continue reading “Korea Criminalizes Boosting For Profit”
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