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'Play Nice' Book Details Blizzard's Troubled Environment, Claims Misconduct, Harassment

Bloomberg reported Jason Schreier's Play Nice book details the entire history of Blizzard and includes instances of misconduct and harassment.

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24 years ago, Blizzard reportedly shot down a pitch to make its own version of Steam by turning Battle.net into "a digital store for a variety of PC games"

Meanwhile, Blizzard started bringing its games to Steam last year

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Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down

The Steam competitor that never was.

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The famous Blizzard graveyard of canceled games includes a sci-fi Diablo and a Warcraft take on Helldivers

The Overwatch developer has a ton of skeletons in the closet

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For a hot minute, the Blizzard game that morphed into StarCraft was a Star Wars RTS concept that went nowhere

LucasArts' president at the time has no memory of the project, though

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This new book gave me far better insight into Blizzard Entertainment's history

I've read Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, and it's a great book that sheds light on the history of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Overwatch and the team that made these games.

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Blizzard's axed MMO Project Titan reportedly "cost the company $80 million," and was like Animal Crossing or The Sims meets Overwatch

"It was just a debacle for the company as a whole"

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PlayStation's Next Big Multiplayer Live Service Could Actually Work This Time

While Sony's live service initiative has been hit or miss thus far, a Horizon game in this mold has potential.

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'Overwatch' Reportedly Just Canceled The One Thing Players Wanted

Blizzard reportedly had animated adaptations of 'Overwatch' and other popular series in the works until a deal with Netflix fell through.

Inverse

Key Blizzard developers apparently tried for years to get a new Starcraft or Warcraft RTS off the ground, but execs had 'no appetite' for them

"[Tim] Morten and his team tried for years to kick off a new RTS."

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Activision Blizzard reportedly clashed with the Overwatch team on how to cope with the hero shooter's swelling demands like OW2, pushed for "hundreds" of hires to be more Call of Duty-like

Not everyone loved that

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Netflix adaptations of Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft were reportedly in development before Activision Blizzard filed a lawsuit against the streaming giant

The lawsuit was filed in 2020

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Overwatch 2 players are banging their heads against a wall after finding out that Blizzard fumbled a Netflix adaptation

That answers my almost decade-long question.

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Horizon: Zero Dawn developer's next game may be Horizon Online as a third single-player game looks "a ways off"

Aloy's taking a lil' break

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Desperate to get another RTS off the ground, Blizzard developers reportedly pitched Warcraft 4 and a Call of Duty RTS that got shot down

Warcraft 3: Reforged made a real-time strategy return tough

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Blizzard is reportedly 'incubating' a StarCraft shooter again, which would be the developer's 3rd attempt at the accursed concept

"Perhaps after Ghost and Ares, the third time would be the charm."

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"StarCraft is not dead at Blizzard" - Blizzard reportedly "incubating" another StarCraft shooter after its last attempts failed

With a former Far Cry boss at the helm

Windows Central

For a third time, Blizzard Entertainment is trying to make this famous game into a shooter. Will it succeed this time?

Blizzard Entertainment is reportedly working on a StarCraft shooter again, according to reporter Jason Schreier, who discussed the topic alongside his upcoming book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.

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Kentucky Route Zero and Stray publisher Annapurna Interactive has collapsed, with its entire staff quitting en masse

The mass-exodus came after negotiations between the employees and owner Megan Ellison fell through.

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The Last of Us Online's cancelation reportedly landed some Sony devs in hot water: "There were some heads rolling as a result of that one"

"That getting canceled was not a bloodless affair"

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Bungie promises to address the 'uncertainty' surrounding the future of Destiny 2 following massive layoffs last week

It hasn't been a good month for Bungie.

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Marathon development is reportedly facing trouble at Bungie: "There's a reason that it was planned for this year and slipped a whole year"

"The sentiment I've heard is not great around it"

PC Gamer

Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at Bungie

Most of Payback's development team has shifted to the upcoming Marathon reboot.

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Rocksteady is reportedly looking to recover from its Suicide Squad ordeal with a return to its roots: a new single-player game

Rocksteady is fighting its way out of development hell

PC Gamer

Why I'm worried about Dragon Age: The Veilguard—and the Tiamat-sized RPG Baldur's Gate 3 looming over it is just the start

I don't know how worried BioWare and EA are, but as a huge Dragon Age fan, I sure am

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