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170: Behind the Blizzard
2 hour 23 minutes Posted Oct 10, 2024 at 10:00 am.
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) Intro
) Welcome Jason Schreier
) How do book sales work?
) The book tour
) The Games Industry: Bleakness AND Hope?
) Let's talk about Blizzard's early years
) Moving to middle Blizzard
) Project Titan
) Overwatch saves the day
) Overwatch League
) The first of the PR disasters
) Reckonings at Blizzard
) Overwatch 2
) Briefly mentioning some other Blizzard games during this time
) The end of Activision Blizzard
) Any tips for navigating news?
) Microsoft enters the picture
) Some other news that is actually related
) 343 rebrands to Halo Studios
) Is Tencent going to buy Ubisoft?
) What is the next book?
) Thanks again to Jason for joining us
) Wrapping up and thanks
) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
) Nextlander content updates
) See ya!
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Jason Schreier joins us on a deep dive about the history, making, and almost undoing of Blizzard as chronicled in his new book Play Nice.
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