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Not Massive: Blizzard Offers Instant Warcraft 3 Refunds


Insert your speculation on their motivation here. Warcraft 3 Reforged is the latest fiasco in Activision Blizzard’s ongoing saga titled “How To Show Contempt For And Lose Customers,” and it looks like someone at Blizzard wised up over the weekend and decided to go halfway to doing the right thing. According to users over at … Continue reading “Not Massive: Blizzard Offers Instant Warcraft 3 Refunds”

RuneScape Celebrates All-Time High Membership In 2019


Everything’s coming up Glouphrie in RuneScape for 2019. As RuneScape enters its twentieth year of existence, Jagex is celebrating a successful 2019. RuneScape as a franchise enjoyed the highest membership count of all time with well over a million subscribers while Old School RuneScape achieved its highest daily active players thanks in part to a … Continue reading “RuneScape Celebrates All-Time High Membership In 2019”

Communication Workers Of America Launch Campaign To Unionize Game Devs


The Communication Workers of America have launched a campaign to unionize jobs in gave development and the tech sector. Talks of unionization in the gaming industry and wider tech sector have been stewing for years, but it looks like real efforts are finally going to be made to push for widespread bargaining efforts following talks … Continue reading “Communication Workers Of America Launch Campaign To Unionize Game Devs”

2019’s Awards We Made Up: 2019 Edition Part 1 Of ???


2019 was certainly a year for video games and 2020 is looking to be a year with video games in it as well. And what better way to celebrate video games than by handing out completely arbitrary awards that we made up to talk about video games? This is MMO Fallout’s 2019 Awards We Made … Continue reading “2019’s Awards We Made Up: 2019 Edition Part 1 Of ???”

Blizzard Makes Statement Now That It’s Closing Time On Friday


It’s 8:30p.m. on Friday here in New York, which means the folks at Blizzard HQ in California are about to go home and most Youtubers are probably polishing off their nightly news videos. So much like Daybreak choosing to lay people off, Blizzard naturally picked this as the best time to release their response to … Continue reading “Blizzard Makes Statement Now That It’s Closing Time On Friday”

Rant: Blizzard Robs Hearthstone Player Of Winnings To Appease China


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”

Jagex Hires Melissa Bachman-Wood As Aggressive Recruitment Continues


Way back in April Jagex announced an aggressive recruitment project that would see the company expanding by 25% over the course of the year. Today, Jagex has expanded on its recruitment by announcing multiple senior level hires starting with Melissa Bachman-Wood who is coming on as vice president of studio. Bachman-Wood brings over 20 years … Continue reading “Jagex Hires Melissa Bachman-Wood As Aggressive Recruitment Continues”

[NM] EA Fought the Law and the Law Won, Removing Loot Boxes


EA fought the law and the law won, at least that’s the lesson the company learned this week after going head to head with Belgian authorities regarding loot box sales for FIFA games. Those of you keeping score will recall that last April, the Belgian government criminalized certain loot box systems in video games, and … Continue reading “[NM] EA Fought the Law and the Law Won, Removing Loot Boxes”

App Annie Reports Top Mobile Spending For 2018


App Annie, a company that provides analytical data for mobile apps, released a list this week of the top companies of 2018 by worldwide consumer spending. The top members of the list might not be all that surprising, with game companies including Tencent, Activision Blizzard, and Netmarble topping the charts. Tencent NetEase Activision Blizzard Bandai … Continue reading “App Annie Reports Top Mobile Spending For 2018”