Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Microsoft By Ethan Gach Published May 22, 2026 | Comments ( 1 ) Microsoft agreed to pay $69 billion to acquire Activision Blizzard in 2022 . One of the Call of Duty publisher…
…Brian Holinka, who spent more than a decade at Blizzard, including nearly five years as the lead combat designer on World of Warcraft, has joined the dev team. "Today is my first…
Jeff Kaplan, a former Blizzard designer renowned for leading the creation of Overwatch , has shed more light on arguably Blizzard's biggest failure: the cancelled massively-multiplayer game Titan. Speaking on the…
…Back in 2021, following allegations of a culture of abuse at Activision Blizzard, Undead Labs boss and former Blizzard developer Jeff Strain urged his own employees to unionise , commenting that "the giants…
…A former World of Warcraft dev who moved on to roles stewarding Blizzard's classic games, he's now responsible for the whole Diablo legacy portfolio, including Diablo and Diablo 3 as…
…In October 2025, Turtle WoW developers made a plea to Blizzard Entertainment : "Unfortunately, unlike other studios, Blizzard does not yet have a framework that allows projects like ours to operate without risking…
Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has said his 2021 departure from Blizzard followed an ultimatum about redundancies which "ultimately broke" his resolve and led him towards the exit door. The developer frames…
…He explained that Kintsugiyama has 34 developers, including fellow Blizzard veteran Tim Ford, and wants to define its own game style rather than borrow from the past. “I don’t want to…
…Developers, for the time being, will just have to wait and see. “It was already excruciating [to wait] over the long weekend—which made it impossible to relax,” one current Blizzard employee…
…A Classic for all seasons By Rebekah Valentine Published June 30, 2026 Former Nintendo Of America President Warns Devs That Companies Doing Mass Layoffs Is ‘A Red Flag’ 'What it says is…