Blizzard Entertainment Acquires Spellbreak Developer Proletariat

Less than a day after the shocking announcement that Battle Royale based on magic spellbreaker they will be close early next yearIt has been announced that Blizzard Entertainment has acquired the game’s developer, Proletariat.

VentureBeat reports that the 100-member Proletariat team will join Blizzard and help with the development of its titanic MMORPG world of warcraft. Blizzard is looking to increase its staff for the game as the developer gets closer to the MMO’s next expansion due later this year. dragon flight.

This follows the news in April that Vicarious Visions, the developer of Professional skater Tony Hawk 1 + 2 — merged with Blizzard. It is said that the proletariat has been working with the Supervision Y Devil developer since May this year.

Blizzard Entertainment President Mike Ybarra had this to say about the acquisition:

We’re putting players at the forefront of everything we do, and we’re working hard to meet and exceed their expectations. “Our teams have room to explore even more creative opportunities within their projects. Proletariat is perfect for supporting Blizzard’s mission to bring high-quality content to our players more often.”

Blizzard was acquired by Activision in 2008, and the parent company (Activision Blizzard) is now owned by Microsoft. The company recently re-elected CEO Bobby Kotick to the Board of Directors.

Proletariat was founded in 2012 and has experience working on MMORPGs as lord of the rings online before releasing Spellbreak in 2020. Seth Sivak, president of Proletariat, said the team had “an open conversation” with Blizzard, but now “the really exciting part is what we’re going to build in the future. That was the real sale.” point for us, the level of ambition of what we want to do with World of Warcraft”.

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