Jason Schreier joins us on a deep dive about the history, making, and almost undoing of Blizzard as chronicled in his new book Play Nice.

CHAPTERS

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(00:00:10) Intro

(00:00:53) Welcome Jason Schreier

(00:02:27) How do book sales work?

(00:08:05) The book tour

(00:11:08) The Games Industry: Bleakness AND Hope?

(00:16:42) Let's talk about Blizzard's early years

(00:43:41) Moving to middle Blizzard

(01:00:53) Project Titan

(01:08:07) Overwatch saves the day

(01:12:12) Overwatch League

(01:19:49) The first of the PR disasters

(01:24:32) Reckonings at Blizzard

(01:27:02) Overwatch 2

(01:33:26) Briefly mentioning some other Blizzard games during this time

(01:34:56) The end of Activision Blizzard

(01:49:11) Any tips for navigating news?

(01:52:04) Microsoft enters the picture

(02:03:12) Some other news that is actually related

(02:03:18) 343 rebrands to Halo Studios

(02:07:55) Is Tencent going to buy Ubisoft?

(02:13:03) What is the next book?

(02:18:33) Thanks again to Jason for joining us

(02:20:22) Wrapping up and thanks

(02:20:57) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts

(02:22:04) Nextlander content updates

(02:23:21) See ya!