After more than a year that they could not come to a new agreement and let games being removed from Chinese market (except Diablo Immortal), Blizzard Entertainment will return to China via Xbox consoles. Back in November 2022, when Activision Blizzard were still independent, could not reach a new business agreement beyond the availability of Diablo Immortal (a whole different agreement) and let January 2023 as the official month of most of Blizzard Entertainment games to be retired. This week's announcement is basically a Microsoft Gaming led gaming success in China gaming market, that includes to explore bringing new NetEase games to Xbox consoles and other platforms. NetEase hasn't been in the bench despite losing a powerful partner like Blizzard (which rumors saying that in part, is was due disturbed communication with unpleasant misunderstandings for then CEO Bobby Kotick), as buying and investing in Westerns gaming studios. For immediate effect, Chinese gamers will expect the recovery of access of previous available titles like World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and other titles in the Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo and StarCraft franchises. Of course, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer considers this agreement a new Xbox victory for bringing more games to more players around the world. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

Blizzard Entertainment has officially outsourced the management of #Overwatch official esport league with ESL Faceit Group administrating The Overwatch Champions Series World Final and taking place at DreamHack Stockholm. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Blizzard Entertainment already issue a hotfix in anticipation for the official release of #DiabloIV but Early Access players are already enjoying including changes to 2 classes as well as enemy health. Changes are server-side, no need to update software. https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/hotfix-june-2-2023-%E2%80%93-102/24656

10 Months ago, Blizzard Entertainment could not go forward on having BlizzCon in a hybrid event and decided to forego in 2022 and make all needed preparation to go in 2023. Now, the company have reconfirmed that BlizzCon 2023 WILL take place on November 3-4 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

A context here is that Blizzard Entertainment is at Zero-F*cks-Given mode of employees just resigning from the company because they protest the end of WFH in an parallel Zero-F*cks-Given mode of their own. Let's see how much longer Blizzard can manage this tug-of-war.

Blizzard Entertainment confirms that Heroes Of The Stone will not receive more content https://ggs.tv/blogs/95399/Blizzard-Entertainment-confirms-that-Heroes-Of-The-Stone-will-not #blizzard #heroesofthestone #gamingnews

After a long time of silence, Blizzard Entertainment has finally revealed that it will be running an Overwatch 2 PvP BETA that will take place in April. There is opportunity to register but as I write this, there is error in the registration, possibly the big flow. https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/1501966353405730816 #overwatch #overwatch2

Después de mucho tiempo en silencio, Blizzard Entertainment finalmente reveló que estará corriendo un BETA del PvP de Overwatch 2 que tomara lugar en Abril. Hay oportunidad de regístrate pero mientras redacto esto, hay error en las registración, posiblemente el gran flujo. https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/1501966353405730816 #overwatch #overwatch2

A pesar de no ser días tranquilos en Activision Blizzard y mucho menos en Blizzard Entertainment, el estudio confirmó que el Overwatch League regresará para el 2022 en Mayo 5 con cambios en la composición de equipos que serán ahora de 5 participantes y el juego a competir será Push, el cual los equipos luchan por el control de un robot que empujará una carga útil hacia la meta de un equipo mientras ese equipo la controle. Será una serie de 24 juegos y la gran notoriedad es que el torneo oficial se jugará con una versión preliminar del engine de Overwatch 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUJy3vSgS0 #Overwatch #OverwatchLeague #Overwatch2

Dentro de los anuncios que Activision Blizzard pudo dar en su conferencia con inversionistas, irónicamente la gran noticia no fue su futura venta para Microsoft. Sino que para el 2022 se espera que Warcraft llegue a iOS y a Android, al parecer sin afectar el desarrollo de Diablo Immortal, a pesar del rechazo general de la comunidad de un juego de Diablo influenciado por la fórmula “freemium”. Blizzard Entertainment no indicó de por sí cuándo será la fecha de lanzamiento de ambos, pero en el reporte financiero, tanto Call Of Duty Mobile y Candy Crush fueron los héroes del trimestre en cuanto a ingresos se refiere. https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-fourth-quarter-and-2021-financial #Warcraft #Blizzard