Blizzard Confirms Acquisition Of Proletariat, Aims To Hire “Hundreds” More In Next 2 Years To Support WoW

Blizzard Entertainment has acquired Boston-based game studio Proletariat, which will work on World of Warcraft going forward to help meet the “voracious appetite” among players for new content. This is happening at the same time that Blizzard is itself being acquired by Microsoft through the Xbox maker’s $75 billion deal to purchase Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard confirmed on Friday that Blizzard’s deal to acquire Proletariat has closed, and it added some additional details. CEO Bobby Kotick said the company plans to hire “hundreds” more developers over the next two years to “serve the needs” of the WoW playerbase…. Click below to read the full story from GameSpot
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