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A round of layoffs is about to hit World of Warcraft developer Blizzard that will claim 600 jobs.

Blizzard Entertainment pulls the plug on this year’s BlizzCon event to focus on developing its upcoming titles.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick takes aim at Star Wars: The Old Republic and casts doubt at the game’s profitability for EA.

Once upon a time in vanilla World of Warcraft, the Alliance didn’t have a leader. Varian Wrynn, King of Stormwind, was AFK and nowhere to be found. This is the story of how he actually attempted to became a leader to rival Chris Metzen’s favourite poster orc. Join us as we look at how he got where he is now and speculate on what his role is going in the next expansion.