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  • Blizzard Cancels Online BlizzCon 2022

    Blizzard Cancels Online BlizzCon 2022

    It’s been a rocky couple of years for Blizzard’s annual fan celebration, with the 2020 and 2021 shows cancelled due to the ongoing covid-19 epidemic. Now, as fallout continues from the California lawsuit over the studio’s culture of abuse, discrimination, and harassment toward women, Blizzard has cancelled the BlizzCon online event previously scheduled for February…