{"id":233191,"date":"2025-07-02T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233191\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:10:12","slug":"blizzard-is-winding-down-support-for-its-warcraft-mobile-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233191\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/693535\/microsoft-layoffs-july-2025-xbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">layoff of roughly 9,000 employees<\/a> is continuing to have downstream effects at the company\u2019s subsidiaries. <a href=\"https:\/\/aftermath.site\/microsoft-layoffs-activision-blizzard-xbox-warcraft-rumble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aftermath reports<\/a> that as many as 100 developers at Blizzard have been impacted, and as a result the studio is winding down development on its mobile tower defense game Warcraft Rumble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/article\/24215864\/announcing-changes-to-warcraft-rumble-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In an announcement<\/a>, Blizzard wrote that while the game will not be abandoned entirely, the company will cease development on any new content. \u201cMoving forward, we\u2019ll continue supporting Rumble with updates focused on regular, systemic in-game events and bug fixes, but no new content.\u202f\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Blizzard continued, saying Rumble, \u201cstruggled to find its footing relative to our ambition for its long-term success.\u201d And while its developers worked to respond to player feedback that, \u201cultimately wasn\u2019t enough to put the game on a path to sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Warcraft Rumble was the first mobile focused game in the Warcraft Universe. It launched in 2023 after nine years in development and was originally one of two mobile games Blizzard was working on, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/11\/22\/18107698\/warcraft-blizzard-pokemon-go-version-development-rumor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the other being Blizzard\u2019s take on Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a>. That game was never officially announced by Blizzard and cancelled sometime in 2022. Warcraft Rumble joins a handful of other Blizzard games in development stasis along with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/article\/23544726\/starcraft-ii-update-october-15-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starcraft II<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/article\/23820714\/heroes-of-the-storm-update-july-8-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heroes of the Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s layoff of roughly 9,000 employees is continuing to have downstream effects at the company\u2019s subsidiaries. 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