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Hearthstone director Ben Brode leaves Blizzard Entertainment
VG247
“After 15 years at Blizzard and almost 10 years working on Hearthstone, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to embark on a new journey,” Brode wrote on the Blizzard forums. “Man, that was a hard sentence to type.” “I am very fortunate to be ...
Hearthstone director Ben Brode leaves Blizzard after 15 yearsMCV
Hearthstone director leaves BlizzardGamereactor UK

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Gamereactor UK
Hearthstone director leaves Blizzard
Gamereactor UK
Ben Brode, who has served as game director of Hearthstone, is leaving Blizzard Entertainment. Brode, known for his work on the digital card game and his contagious laughter, has worked at the company for 15 years and is going to help to set up a new ...

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Hearthstone game director leaves Blizzard
GamesIndustry.biz
Hearthstone game director Ben Brode has decided to leave Blizzard Entertainment after 15 years at the company. Brode started at Blizzard when he was 20 years old, with the job title of "night crew game tester." Out of the ensuing 15 years, he spent ten ...

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Dot Esports
Ninja's Esports Arena Fortnite charity stream reaches over 660000 concurrent viewers
Dot Esports
Image via Blizzard Entertainment. Overwatch can add another award nomination to its contiguously growing list of accolades. Blizzard Entertainment's first-person shooter has been nominated for a Webby Award as the best multiplayer/competitive game ...

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Blasting News
PC games that will meet players' expectations in 2018
Blasting News
This is an action-adventure video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios for Microsoft Windows 10 and Xbox One, released on 20 March 2018. This PC game allows players to take the role of pirates, sailing the seas of the fantastic ...

Blasting News
PC games that will meet players' expectations in 2018
Blasting News
This is an action-adventure video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios for Microsoft Windows 10 and Xbox One, released on 20 March 2018. This PC game allows players to take the role of pirates, sailing the seas of the fantastic ...

mxdwn.com
Hearthstone Game Director Ben Brode Departs from Hearthstone Team and Blizzard Entertainment
mxdwn.com
As for Brode's future, he is “going to help start a new company” and the company is going to “probably make games, but we haven't figured anything else out, yet.” He also goes on to be ecstatic about “designing, programming, and actually creating ...

VentureBeat
Hearthstone boss Ben Brode leaves Blizzard Entertainment
VentureBeat
Ben Brode has spent most of the last decade working on Blizzard Entertainment's card battler Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, but for him, that work is now coming to an end. Brode announced today that he is leaving the publisher to start a new game ...
Hearthstone game director quits BlizzardPolygon
Hearthstone game director Ben Brode is leaving Blizzard, much to the shock of the communityGamesRadar
Hearthstone's Beloved Game Director QuitsKotaku
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GamingBolt
Overwatch PTR Update Nerfs Tracer, Reworks Hanzo
GamingBolt
Blizzard Entertainment – or the development team for its hero shooter Overwatch – have made some pretty bold moves with regards to hero balancing. Along with Bastion's initial Ironclad buff, Mercy's Valkyrie reign and the recent buff to Sombra's hack ...

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Analyst's Ratings : Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI)
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Their portfolio includes some of the strongest franchises in all of entertainment, developed by the incredibly talented teams at Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King Digital Entertainment, Activision Blizzard Studios, Major League Gaming ...
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Zacks Investment Research Downgrades Activision Blizzard (ATVI) to Sellregistrarjournal.com
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Advocate.com
The Queerest Video Games, Ranked
Advocate.com
Queer-friendly video games can be a hard thing to quantify over the course of nearly 40 years, multiple genres, and fantasy stories where sex and gender might not work exactly the same as they do here on earth in 2018. However, this is a rich history ...

invenglobal
Min-kyu Kyeong, securing the future of Esports through the advancement of amateur leagues
invenglobal
Min-Kyu Kyeong, broadcasting director of Inven, is a well-known expert in Collegiate Esports. Inven has been coordinating and hosting many Esports events by working with various game companies and organizations including Blizzard Entertainment, Riot ...

Markets Insider
High schoolers across America will start playing video games for sport this fall — meet the 25-year-old Detroit ...
Markets Insider
Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment. While students will play the games on a bigger distribution platform like Steam, the PlayVS platform will download the scores of those matches and publish the results on its own ranking of top gamers. Students ...

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ESPN
NFHS partners with PlayVS to form high school-level esports programs
ESPN
Additionally, game developers such as Riot Games, Blizzard Entertainment and others have hosted their own collegiate esports competitions in League of Legends, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone and other game titles. PlayVS was founded in ...

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Verdict
How Overwatch helped double Activision Blizzard's stock price in two years
Verdict
Last year was a fairly light one for the company, particularly for the Blizzard Entertainment subdivision behind Overwatch. The developer's only release came in the form of a remastered version of 1998 strategy game StarCraft. Blizzard put out ...
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Our view: King University gets ahead of the esports game
Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
In November, game developer behemoth Blizzard Entertainment formed the Overwatch League (or OWL), a professional esports organization that includes 12 teams representing major metropolitan areas across the country, including Houston, New York and ...

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King University offering scholarships for video gamers to compete in tournaments
Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
Samantha Oplinger, a criminal justice major, plays “Overwatch” at King University. “Overwatch” is a team-based, multiplayer, first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. The university is also introducing esports ...

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UCI News
UCI Dream Eaters climb to round of eight in Heroes of the Dorm collegiate esports tourney
UCI News
... dreams in Blizzard Entertainment's Heroes of the Dorm collegiate tournament. The UCI esports squad secured a berth in the round of eight after a 2-0 defeat of the Snow Frogs from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in the round of 16. “We ...

VentureBeat
The Leisure Economy: Where we all get paid to play games
VentureBeat
The panelists included Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, CEO of Neverdie Studios (and a man who bought and sold an island in the virtual world Rocktropia); Gio Hunt, executive vice president and executive producer of platform technology and experiences at ...