Blizzard Bans Hearthstone Champion for Hong Kong Support – Inside Gaming Daily


Listen… do you hear that noise? The muffled screams of morals turning to dust under the heavy burden of a BIG OL PILE OF MONEY? It’s Late Stage Capitalism in the flesh! Shh, don’t startle it.

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[Twitter] @InvenGlobal tinyurl.com/y3jdnsmp
[InvenGlobal] Hong Kong player Blitzchung calls for liberation of his country in post-game interview tinyurl.com/y48r3y3n
[Hearthstone] Hearthstone Grandmasters Asia-Pacific Ruling tinyurl.com/y4mvv3jn
[The New York Times] Hong Kong Protests Put N.B.A. on Edge in China tinyurl.com/yycemuyl
[The New York Times] ‘South Park’ Creators Offer Fake Apology After Show Is Erased in China tinyurl.com/y27dfopf
[BBC] The Hong Kong protests explained in 100 and 500 words tinyurl.com/y3u3nxes
[NBC] After a Hong Kong protester is shot, the cycle of violence threatens more tragedy tinyurl.com/yyhfpn9b
[Twitter] @Noahpinion tinyurl.com/y6kvzyst
[Reddit] Blizzard Ruling on HK interview: Blitzchung removed from grandmasters, will receive no prize, and banned for a year. Both casters fired. tinyurl.com/y3enf6cs
[Polygon] Superdata: Hearthstone pulls in $20 million a month as it disrupts the card game industry tinyurl.com/y2dfu2zl
[Hearthstone] Celebrating 100 Million Players! tinyurl.com/yyk7dfev
[Polygon] Who can still afford to keep up with Hearthstone? tinyurl.com/yxnl8p8g
[GameRant] Hearthstone is Killing Itself, Revenues Are Declining, Says Report tinyurl.com/y2qxnf8r
[Reddit] According to today’s Q3 2018 Activision-Blizzard results, Hearthstone has experienced a decline in monthly active users, while Boomsday didn’t perform as well as KotFT (Q3 2017) (plus other quotes from the call) tinyurl.com/yykxbydn
[MMOS] SUPERDATA RELEASES DIGITAL GAMES REPORT FOR FEBRUARY, 2019: HEARTHSTONE REVENUE DOWN 52% YEAR OVER YEAR tinyurl.com/y2kheuuk
[Polygon] Blizzard responds to Diablo: Immortal backlash tinyurl.com/ycb9fqoq
[Youtube, No Commentary] Do you guys not have phones? – BlizzCon 2018 Diablo Immortal reveal tinyurl.com/y3dfbdfv
[Venture Beat] Diablo: Immortal is a co-development project between Blizzard and NetEase tinyurl.com/ycw9p7nf
[Venture Beat] Newzoo: U.S. will overtake China as No. 1 gaming market in 2019 tinyurl.com/y6y7baw2
[KR Asia] China’s mobile gaming market to reach USD 30 billion annual revenue by 2020 tinyurl.com/y6ohjbae
[Variety] Number of Mobile Gamers Increased 5% in U.S., Canada in 2018 (Analyst) tinyurl.com/yxu8lphw
[Apple] Hearthstone (China) tinyurl.com/y5gjz344
[New Zoo] Top 10 Countries/Markets by Game Revenues tinyurl.com/y3rty8p8
[NBC] Chinese mobile users forked out 40 percent of the $101 billion spent globally on apps in 2018 tinyurl.com/y9vhmye3
[Twitter] @GodsUnchained tinyurl.com/yxepjq2f
[Twitter] @GodsUnchained tinyurl.com/y6xmlpcf