Journalist Jason Schreier discusses his new book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment. Illustration:The Verge / Image: Blizzard Entertainment
On this week’s episode of Decoder, I’m talking to Jason Schreier, a Bloomberg journalist and author of the new book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.
If you don’t know Blizzard, you know its games — the studio behind Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch is more than 30 years old, and it’s achieved legendary status. At the same time, Blizzard has become emblematic of many of the industry’s biggest failings, from the shareholder pressures to prioritize monetization over creativity to the deep sexism that
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