Background information Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher based in California, most widely known for the Warcraft and Diablo series. Tencent is a gigantic Chinese conglomerate that has stakes in everything, including a 5% stake in Blizzard Activision. Besides this, they are either completely or partially own: – Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, one of…
Last week at BlizzCon 2018, a gaming convention held by the video game developer Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment announced its newest game: ‘Diablo Immortal’. This announcement was not met with the usual excitement, but instead received a huge backlash from the Diablo fanbase. One disappointed fan even asked the announcer whether “this is an out-of-season April Fool’s joke”. For anyone who has…