![]() “Hearthstone” is a digital card game that has a global player base including professional and casual gamers alike. 5, when Chung Ng Wai (gamer handle Blitzchung), a professional gamer and Hong Kong native, called for Hong Kong's liberation after winning in one of Blizzard's live-streamed “Hearthstone” matches. The protests, ostensibly about an extradition law, touch on the viability of China's promise to administer Hong Kong according to a “one country, two systems” proposition with a communist political system exercising control over a democratically-run region.īlizzard became involved on Oct. The experience could serve as a warning for other companies that could find themselves plunged into crisis-management mode by world events. Activision Blizzard, one of the world's leading video game firms and owner of bingeable mobile games such as Candy Crush, recently found itself drawn into the political controversy surrounding the Hong Kong protests.
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