Blizzard
Why do you think Blizzard hasn’t gotten back into the TTRPG space?
Back in the late 1990s/early 2000s, Blizzard had several TTRPG products out -- from licensed Diablo properties from Wizards of the Coast themselves to the Warcraft/ World of Warcraft Roleplaying Game.
How do you think Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard will affect the games we love?
I am still, one day later, absolutely gobsmacked by the news that Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for slightly less than $70 billion USD.
Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard
Microsoft is in the process of purchasing Activision Blizzard for roughly 68.7 billion dollars, and they have added all of the company's many franchises to its Xbox lineup according to multiple sources, one of which is Microsoft themselves.
Which upcoming Blizzard game are you most excited for?
They probably won't be here anytime soon — we know for a fact that some of Blizzard's biggest titles that are still in development, like Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2, won't be released in 2022.
What do you expect to see out of gaming in 2022?
It's the dawn of a new year, a time of renewed perspectives and expectations.
Ruined King demonstrates how Riot is looking forward and taking chances Blizzard should have years ago
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is a single-player, turn-based RPG, made by the folks at Airship Syndicate and published by Riot Forge.
What Blizzard games are the ones you come back to?
I can't say I come back to World of Warcraft, because you can't come back when you never leave — but I do find myself returning to Diablo on the regular, having in the past week played both Diablo 2: Resurrected and Diablo 3.
After workers take first steps towards unionization, Activision Blizzard appears to be going down the standard anti-union checklist
Yesterday, the ABK Workers Alliance announced a strike over the firing of Raven QA workers, but the bigger news in that was that Activision Blizzard workers were being given union authorization cards.
ABK Workers Alliance announces a strike, with a fund to support striking workers
Activision Blizzard workers have demanded better working conditions for months, but there have been few concrete actions from management to remedy the company's many problems — and allegations of new abuses just keep coming.
It’s been 126 days since Activision Blizzard employees published their demands for change, and management hasn’t acknowledged them
In July, a lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing accused Activision Blizzard of having a "frat boy" culture where its female employees were regularly harassed, mistreated, and abused.