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2025-08-12

Blizzard's Story and Franchise Development team has voted to unionize

Workers from Blizzard Entertainment's department for Story and Franchise Development have voted to unionize. Members of the team will become members of the Communication Workers of America and Microsoft has recognized the union. The SFD team is responsible for cinematics, animation and narrative in Blizzard's series, creating content such as in-game cutscenes and promotional videos. The department also includes archival workers and historians for Blizzard franchises, such as World of Warcraft and Overwatch. A spokesperson from CWA said that there will be a [...]

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2025-08-28

Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized

More than 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard Entertainment have voted to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union will represent employees across multiple disciplines includ [...]

Match Score: 154.27

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2025-09-11

Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video ga [...]

Match Score: 144.29

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2025-04-18

Blizzard explains hero bans ahead of their introduction in competitive Overwatch

Blizzard has finally shared how hero bans will work in competitive Overwatch 2. The new step will let teams ban heroes they think are overpowered or annoying to play against, without letting them game [...]

Match Score: 143.78

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2025-01-28

Whole Foods workers form first union since Amazon acquisition

A majority of workers at a Whole Foods location in Philadelphia have voted to unionize, as reported by Reuters. This makes the Pennsylvania store the first to unionize under Amazon’s ownership, and [...]

Match Score: 142.69

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2025-07-02

Blizzard is giving up on its Warcraft mobile game amid layoffs

It's nearly the end of the road for Warcraft Rumble. Blizzard has announced that it will no longer be developing new content for the free-to-play mobile strategy game, and instead focus on " [...]

Match Score: 113.29

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2025-08-20

Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video g [...]

Match Score: 111.10

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2025-04-22

Overwatch 2's frenetic Stadium mode is a new lease on life for my go-to game

I try to play as broad a swathe of games as I can, including as many of the major releases as I am able to get to. Baldur's Gate 3 garnered near-universal praise when it arrived in 2023, and I wa [...]

Match Score: 104.34

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2025-08-04

Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

Employees at Raven Software, known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise, finally have a union contract with Microsoft. This happened nearly years after quality assurance (QA) workers at the comp [...]

Match Score: 93.26

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2025-02-12

Overwatch 2's next update overhauls the game with perks and loot boxes

Blizzard is making some major changes to Overwatch 2 for its Season 15 update, including adding all new gameplay in the form of a perks system and the return of loot box rewards, on top of the new her [...]

Match Score: 73.22