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Blizzard ends new content development for Warcraft Rumble and lays off staff: Former employee says 'most' of the team has been let go

July 3, 2025 4 Min Read
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Lower than a 12 months after making its debut on PC, the real-time technique sport Warcraft Rumble has reached the top of the road. Blizzard introduced right this moment that it is made the “extraordinarily arduous choice” to finish new content material releases for the sport, though it promised that “updates targeted on common, systemic in-game occasions and bug fixes” will proceed.

“Warcraft Rumble started improvement 9 years in the past as a love letter to Azeroth and launched again in 2023, reflecting enter from enthusiastic gamers across the globe and the trouble of a passionate crew—a few of whom proceed to help Rumble or different Blizzard video games, and a few we’ve needed to sadly half methods with,” Blizzard wrote.

“Since launch, Rumble has struggled to seek out its footing relative to our ambition for its long-term success, and for a while now the crew has been listening to participant suggestions, refocusing in sure areas, and exploring totally different choices. A few of that work confirmed indicators of progress, however finally wasn’t sufficient to place the sport on a path to sustainability.”


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Warcraft Rumble triggered a little bit of a stir when it was introduced in 2023 as Blizzard’s first new RTS in years—Warcraft is probably probably the most well-known and influential RTS of all time, in any case—however pleasure was muted by the truth that it was a free-to-play cellular sport.

It got here to PC a 12 months later, in December 2024, additionally free to play and completely on Battle.internet. Blizzard hasn’t publicly shared participant numbers and the sport’s absence from Steam makes it just about unimaginable to inform how Warcraft Rumble is acting on PC, however given this final result it is honest to say it isn’t Blizzard’s subsequent huge factor.

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And sure, the top of recent content material improvement for Warcraft Rumble means layoffs at Blizzard, a part of the broader lower of 9,000 staff Microsoft introduced earlier right this moment. Whereas the variety of Blizzard staff being put out of labor hasn’t been introduced, LinkedIn messages posted by a number of former Warcraft Rumble builders make it sound just like the cuts run deep: Senior software program engineer AJ Davis wrote that “a lot of the Warcraft Rumble crew” was laid off, whereas 3D character artist Angelo B. mentioned the layoffs impacted his total crew.

Together with the layoffs, Microsoft additionally cancelled Uncommon’s Everwild undertaking, an unannounced MMO that is been in improvement at ZeniMax On-line Studios since 2018, and maybe most notably, the Excellent Darkish reboot introduced in 2020. Excellent Darkish developer The Initiative was additionally closed, and The Elder Scrolls On-line sport director Matt Firor, who has headed up ZeniMax On-line Studios because it was based in 2007, is leaving the corporate. It has been a day, alright.

I’ve reached out to Blizzard for remark and can replace if I obtain a reply.

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