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Overwatch 2 Phone Request: “Punished For Being Poor”

Overwatch 2 Phone Request: “Punished For Being Poor”

picture: blizzard “It feels like being punished for being poor” over watch Player Richard Meunster tells my box via email. A long with 19 million other peopleRichard and his brother both use Cricket Wireless, one of the prepaid phone services that surveillance 2 will not accept its newly introduced mandatory two-factor authentication system, SMS protection. ...

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Controversial executive resigns from Call of Duty publisher

Controversial executive resigns from Call of Duty publisher

screenshot: CBS Viacom/Kotaku In a past life, Frances Townsend defended the legal basis for the torture method known as waterboarding George W. Bush’s War on Terror. In a more recent one, she has helped direct Activision Blizzard’s initially unmusical response a major sexual harassment lawsuit from the state of California. Now she resigns as that ...

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Blizzard Announces Free Kiriko Amid Battle Pass Controversy

Blizzard Announces Free Kiriko Amid Battle Pass Controversy

picture: blizzard Blizzard just announced that the new (and widespread) Ninja character Kiriko will be free for everyone surveillance 2 Players who already own a copy of the original over watch. While that might seem like cause for celebration, the controversial free-to-play sequel is blocking access to most future characters behind a battle pass system ...

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Diablo IV leaks send Blizzard into damage control

Diablo IV leaks send Blizzard into damage control

picture: blizzard It’s been a week since diablo 4 Beta test startedand players are already leaky recordings of the game on the internet. What’s funny is that the screenshots have the tester’s identification number stamped all over them, meaning Blizzard probably already knows who these people are. Diablo IV | Developer Gameplay Showcase The leaks ...

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Lawyer pays Activision for not playing Call of Duty

Lawyer pays Activision for not playing Call of Duty

Uh, say what now?picture: Infinity Ward A lawsuit against Activision Blizzard was dismissed last month because the plaintiffs did not play enough, according to a judge in the Southern California District Court where the lawsuit was filed Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare to bring an informed case against the slandered publisher. Once in Activision Blizzard’s ...

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Fan spends six years reworking a never-released Warcraft game

Fan spends six years reworking a never-released Warcraft game

gif: Blizzard / DerSilver83 / Kotaku Never officially released years ago Warcraft Point-and-click adventure game developed by Blizzard in the late ’90s leaked online. While the game was fully playable back then, its cutscenes were low quality, heavily compressed, not perfectly synced with the audio, and some were even missing right out of the leak. ...

Spellbreak ends in 2023, developers now at Blizzard For Warcraft

Spellbreak ends in 2023, developers now at Blizzard For Warcraft

picture: proletariat spellbreakthe magic-based battle royale, is enchanted and will be discontinued early next year, developer Proletariat announced in a blog post. Also, the entire studio will be taken over by Blizzard, the result of a recent acquisition meant to spur development World of Warcraft. News about shutdowns always sucks, but this one hits me ...

Activision is developing “Diversity Tool” for Overwatch 2, Call of Duty

Activision is developing “Diversity Tool” for Overwatch 2, Call of Duty

picture: Activision Blizzard Today, Activision Blizzard fulfilled its daily oopsie quota by blogging about what the publisher’s subsidiaries are like apparently used a special tool to help develop more “diverse” characters. Apparently it believes it can achieve this without, I don’t know, actually talking to or hiring marginalized developers. Why rely on annoying, fallible people ...