Blizzard is playing catch-up with both Hearthstone and Heroes , and hoping our nostalgia for our favorite orcs and zerg will be enough to compel us to abandon any number of excellent and better-established games in favor of the Blizzard version. Titan was supposed to be a totally new property, not based on Diablo , Starcraft , or Warcraft. Despite the downward slope, it probably has an overall Metacritic average higher than almost any of the other major game devs, but that is in part because most of the other big players have the guts to take risks on new properties every now and then.
But Rockstar has taken risks, too: Bully , L. Noire , Rockstar Table Tennis. Noire , among other games. And with each familiar, slightly-less-good expansion the company churns out, its reputation moves down a few pegs. Former editor and motion graphics artist for Tech in Asia. Currently content marketer at Dataquest. Comment now. Blizzard is the worst of the major game developers. Gaming Opinion C. Taste is obviously a personal thing, but comparing the Metascores of the various expansions in the Warcraft , World of Warcraft , and Starcraft series over the past ten years, there is a pretty clear trend: AD.
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Activision Blizzard comes fifth in the top 10 biggest video companies ranking of The California-based video game studio can, as always, rely on its by far most historic game series Call of Duty which performed satisfyingly well with its newest installation Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Top 10 biggest video game companies by most recent revenue numbers in U. Only the gaming revenue is being taken into account for this ranking. Please leave this field empty. Want to get informed about new fresh rankings?
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