Blizzard-NetEase financing dispute leads to canceled Warcraft mobile MMO ‘Neptune’

03 Aug 2022Source: MassivelyOp
Blizzard has apparently canceled an in-development MMORPG. Bloomberg, which first broke the news, says the game was code-named Neptune and was a “massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the same universe as World of Warcraft” – not a direct port but some sort of spinoff in a different time period.


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