The Chinese destroy a giant World of Warcraft statue in protest

Good morning. China’s NetEase’s nasty breakup with Blizzard. Epic Games Store is giving away an interesting game. Starfield release date very soon. The success of The Last of Us series.

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– Company employees NetEase they destroyed a giant statue of an Orc from World of Warcraft in front of their studio and moved out of the offices. They thus express dissatisfaction with the actions of Activision Blizzard. The companies did not agree on the continuation of cooperation, and NetEase lost the representation of Activision Blizzard games in China. The owner of World of Warcraft and Diablo is now looking for a new Chinese publisher. Meanwhile, the long-standing cooperation ends in a war of words and, now, sticks.

– Those who joined in the destruction were rewarded with a brand new drink from the NetEase Cafe – Blizzard Green Tea (green tea Blizzard). “Green Tea” is a modern Chinese slur for a manipulative person who tries to appear innocent but is definitely not (that’s the nice way of saying it).

– To make matters worse, then many Chinese players were to lose their World of Warcraft saves and the servers are supposed to be unavailable for maintenance.

– Blizzard should have contacted NetEase and offered six-month extension of cooperation, but the American company did not want to stop looking for a new partner for its games in China during this time. The management of NetEase found it disrespectful and did not agree to the proposal.

– If you are going to buy Hogwarts Legacy in pre-order from Steam or Epic Games Store, so you should know that you will not be able to pre-download the action RPG from the world of Harry Potter. There will be no pre-load. Owners of the Digital Deluxe Edition or physical Collector’s Edition will be able to start downloading on 2/7 as part of early access to the game. Hogwarts Legacy will require 85 GB of free disk space, which will hurt players with slow connections.

– On the weekend, you can play for free on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One consoles with an Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription Space Crew: Legendary Edition a Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.

– EA Sports PGA Tour will be released on 3/24/2023 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. The game will feature 30 real golf courses, including all major championship courses from 2021 to 2023. You will be able to play not only as your created golfer, but also as the best golfers in the world, such as Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Tony Finau , Nelly Korda and Lexi Thompson.

– Capcom can be satisfied, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne sold over 10 million units. Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has sold 5 million copies since last summer for Switch and PC.

– Epic Games Store offers free Epistory – Typing Chronicles, an atmospheric adventure game that tells the story of an uninspired writer who asks her muse to help her write her latest book. You will play as a muse. Your adventure begins with a blank page, but the world quickly becomes bigger and more alive.

– The next free game on the Epic Games Store will be Adios, a movie game where you become a pig farmer in Kansas. It will be available from January 26, 2023.

– Date of publication Starfield will be announced very soon, Bethesda’s Latin America Instagram account said. On Steam, meanwhile, Starfield is listed as coming soon. We’ll see if the first half of the year continues to apply. As previously confirmed by Microsoft and Bethesda, the expected space adventure will have a separate presentation.

– 10 million views in the United States in just two days. So he can boast of this great start seriál The Last of Us od HBO.