Monthly Archives: August 2022

Blizzard reportedly cancels World of Warcraft mobile game

Blizzard has canceled a World of Warcraft mobile game according to a report from Bloomberg. The game, made in collaboration with Blizzard’s Chinese publishing partner NetEase, was in development for three years before a conflict about financing terms halted the project. According to Bloomberg, the World of Warcraft mobile game was codenamed “Neptune” and was…

Textbook publisher: NFTs will let us squeeze even more money out of students

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Textbook publisher Pearson suggests blockchain tech could let it take a cut of secondary textbook sales, capturing a section of the book market that’s so far escaped it. As quoted by Bloomberg, Pearson CEO Andy Bird believes non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, could help publishers make money off…