Activision-Blizzard

If you've been holding on to hope that we'd get an announcement at the upcoming BlizzConline about a 2021 release for Overwatch 2 or Diablo 4, well, the latest Activision-Blizzard investor report has a bit of bad news for you: neither title is expected this year.

Battle.net has been a part of Blizzard's gaming presence since the days of Diablo 2, and over the years it's been integrated so thoroughly into Blizzard's games that other companies have basically tried to rip it off, with mixed success.

Activision-Blizzard has hired industry veteran Daniel Alegre, currently Google's President of global retail and shopping, to be its new President and Chief Operating Officer.

Activision Blizzard's latest earnings call posited good news for World of Warcraft: the third quarter of the year saw the largest quarterly subscription increase in the franchise's history.

Loot boxes.

Okay, first up, let me be clear -- nobody at Disney and nobody at Activision has said that this is in the cards.

It's been a tough year for Blizzard.

The big dirty not-a-secret secret of modern game development is that it costs more than ever, but people absolutely refuse to pay more than they did ten years ago for games.

Around 800 people went home this week without jobs after the devastating layoffs at Activision Blizzard.

Good news, everyone!