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NME » World of Warcraft
6M ago
Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard today (October 13), following more than a year of negotiations with regulators across the world.
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The agreement is the most expensive acquisition in the history of the video games industry, with Microsoft paying £59.4billion ($68.7billion) in cash for Activision Blizzard and the divisions it possesses.
These divisions are Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, Major League Gaming and Activision Blizzard Studios.
‘Call Of ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
7M ago
A replica of World Of Warcraft‘s Frostmourne – the cursed sword that killed Sylvanas Windrunner and doomed her to become a banshee – has been seized in a police raid in Manitoba, Canada.
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The Norway House Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided a residence on September 6 in the Kinosao Sipi Cree Nation as a result of an investigation into the possession of controlled substances and illegal firearms in the area.
Successfully seizing nine firearms and over 130 grams of what was thought to be crack cocaine ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
9M ago
Blizzard Entertainment is raising funds with the help of Mila Kunis to support those in Ukraine through a new pack of companion pets for World of Warcraft.
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Sunny the golden retriever and Flurky the murloc are the new pets, and are yellow and blue to reflect the colours of the flag of Ukraine. Flurky is carrying a sunflower too, which is the country’s national flower, and this one is compatible with World of Warcraft Classic: Wrath of the Lich King. The Pack is priced at £18 and 100 percent of the proceeds ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
9M ago
A specialist World of Warcraft website has seemed to have stumbled upon a reference to Sylvanas Windrunner in the latest patch for the game.
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Via PCGamesN, Wowhead datamined the Dragonflight patch 10.1.7 for the public test region for World of Warcraft and discovered a spell titled “Sylvanas”. There is very little information surrounding the ability, with a work-in-progress cog icon and no description attached to what it might do for the player.
Considering there is also the Forsaken Heritage Armor on its way to the game and Sylvanas split the Fors ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
1y ago
Ion Hazzikostas, the game director for World Of Warcraft, has revealed that Dragonflight’s upcoming patch, Embers Of Neltharion, will offer more “solo exploration” for players, and acknowledged it as an area where Blizzard hasn’t “done as well as we should” in the past.
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Speaking to NME, Hazzikostas shared that for the game’s next major patch, Embers Of Neltharion, Blizzard has “absolutely” drawn from players’ feedback on the launch of Dragonflight, World Of Warcraft‘s 2022 expansion.
Dragonflight, in turn, was an attempt to offer solo ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
1y ago
Dragonflight patch 10.1 comes to World Of Warcraft next week (May 2), and ahead of its release, developers from Blizzard Entertainment have sat down with NME to discuss how it worked to make the “cowboy mole people” Niffen feel like a natural addition to Azeroth.
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Earlier in the week, Blizzard shared a video detailing everything that fans can expect from patch 10.1.
Besides a new raid and an extra zone, the video showcased the introduction of a new race — the subterranean mole-like Niffen — and the return of a snail racing, which first ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
1y ago
Staff at Activision Blizzard have accused the company of losing workers and “creating crisis maps” of what it can release, due to issues with the company’s remote working policy.
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In a series of tweets posted yesterday, World Of Warcraft game producer Adam ‘Glaxigrav’ claimed he has lost “yet another” employee this week.
“Blizzard is losing amazing talent because someone in power doesn’t listen to the game directors who make his products,” wrote Adam, who said Blizzard can’t “make better Dragonflights […] If we get rid of everyone who m ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
1y ago
A World Of Warcraft player has managed to hit the level cap on their Monk character before reaching the game’s tutorial zone, in a feat that took them over 200 days.
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Explaining the achievement, Reddit user Cheatcho (via GamesRadar) shared that they kept their Monk on the boat that’s intended to take new characters to World Of Warcraft‘s tutorial zone, Exile’s Reach.
Cheatcho did so by completing five account-wide pet battles each day, though acknowledges that it took “200+ real days” to hit level 70. They added that even going from lev ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
1y ago
A lead developer on World Of Warcraft Classic was reportedly fired by Blizzard Entertainment after protesting an employee evaluation policy.
According to Bloomberg (via PC Gamer), Brian Birmingham – who is the lead engineer on the 2019 game – refused to give an employee a low evaluation in order to meet a quota introduced by Blizzard in 2021.
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It’s said that the process – called “stack ranking” – requires managers to give approximately five per cent of their worker ..read more
NME » World of Warcraft
1y ago
NetEase has decided not to renew its contract with Activision Blizzard, meaning several titles will be unavailable to play in China from next week.
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World Of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Diablo 3, Heroes Of The Storm and the StarCraft series will become unplayable from January 23 when NetEase’s licence expires. There’s currently no word from Activision Blizzard about a new partner, or when the games will return but it has previously said talks were being held with prospective partners.
NetEase has had a contrac ..read more