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Blizzard Says Warcraft Rumble Won't Get Any New Content as Microsoft Layoffs Hit Development Team
- Today, Blizzard announced it will end new content for Warcraft Rumble, shifting focus to maintenance with in-game events and bug fixes.
- Following Microsoft's 4% workforce cut around 9,000 jobs, Blizzard shifted Warcraft Rumble to a maintenance-only phase due to performance struggles and wider layoffs.
- Blizzard admits the game showed progress but wasn't sustainable, shifting Warcraft Rumble to a live ops-only maintenance phase amid layoffs.
- Impact reports indicate up to 100 Blizzard employees affected, with some reassigned and others laid off amid company restructuring.
- Beyond mobile gaming, Microsoft's Xbox-wide layoffs led to Warcraft Rumble's transition to maintenance-only mode amid cancellations like Everwild and Perfect Dark, with Rumble continuing in a diminished form.
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Microsoft Guts Activision Blizzard Mobile Team, Ends Warcraft Rumble Support in Latest Xbox Layoffs
The fallout from the most recent wave of Xbox layoffs continues to spread, and now it’s hitting Activision Blizzard and its mobile ambitions hard. Less than a year after launch, Warcraft Rumble—a mobile tower defense spin-off set in the Warcraft universe—is being stripped of future content. Microsoft has confirmed the game will shift to a live ops-only phase, with no new expansions or updates planned. The post Microsoft Guts Activision Blizzard …
Blizzard Says Warcraft Rumble Won't Get Any New Content as Microsoft Layoffs Hit Development Team
As the full effect of Microsoft’s devastating round of layoffs becomes clearer, Blizzard has announced that mobile game Warcraft Rumble won’t get any new content, with its developers reporting they have been laid off.
Blizzard has confirmed that Warcraft Rumble will not receive any new content, and that the entire team behind the game has been fired. This decision is part of a massive wave of layoffs within Microsoft, which affects more than 9,000 employees, 4% of the company. Warcraft Rumble was an important bet on Blizzard to bring the Warcraft franchise to the mobile market. After years of development, the game was launched in 2023 as a Class of Clans-styl…
News from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Blizzard Entertainment decided to cancel the development of new content for Warcraft Rumble, its strategy game for mobiles and PC, after confirming that it did not achieve the expected success. The news comes along with a wave of layoffs within the Xbox ecosystem, and the thing does not look good for those who had expectations in this spin-off of the Warcraft universe. Lau…
The massive redundancies at Microsoft, which have affected about 9,000 employees, continue to have an impact on publishers linked to Microsoft Gaming and Xbox. This is particularly the case at Blizzard: according to internal sources, almost a hundred Blizzard developers have been put on the door, resulting in the [...] Read more... Follow iPhoneAddict.fr on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPho…
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