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Overwatch may hold pulled planned map let ou amid this week's abuse allegations

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Earlier this week, the state of California filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard for fostering a "frat son" culture of discrimination, torment, and gendered pay gaps. While the publisher denies the allegations, it has recognised that now may not be the best time to build astir excitement for a new Overwatch correspondenc.

According to a directly-archived clause past Dexerto (via Eurogamer), Blizzard planned to announce a new deathmatch map Malevento in a storm PTR update yesterday. Described as one of the nigh vibrant maps in the mettlesome, the pocket-size Italian town would harbor a secret Talon base, and was set to arrive in the game seemly on August 17.

With the story ne'er going live and Blizzard currently on energy silence across all mixer media accounts, thither's no official Scripture on wherefore the declaration was pulled. Information technology's extremely likely, however, that the team decided that very few hoi polloi are ready to be excited for new Blizzard content—not after the revelation that the studio apartment's cultivation of intimate abuse and harassment was so vile it reportedly drove one female employee to suicide.

Claims of mismanagement were supported by a follow-rising report that pinned Warcraft 3: Reforged's infamously botched launch on stony-broke communication, cut costs, and pressure from corporate to ship the game prematurely.

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