Always Online Podcast: Game Awards, Metzen's Blizzard Return, Microsoft Purchase, And New Blue Protocol Details Ep 457

The year comes to a close and we review the winners at the Game Awards, talk about our favorite announcements from the show (including a TON of Blue Protocol news), we review all the drama surrounding Microsoft's purchase of Activision, and finally we hit up Elyon closing, Gwent closing, and Chris Metzen's return to World of Warcraft! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

05:04 Game Awards and Blue Protocol

31:20 Microsoft, Sony, And Activision Blizzard

42:25 Coming and Going (Elyon, Gwent, Metzen, and more!)

01:00:05 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

If you have submissions for the show's Weekly Bombs, have questions for the panel (nothing is off limits!), or just ideas for what you want covered you can now send them to magicman@mmobomb.com. You can also be a guest in the show, just send us why you want to host, and what topic or game you would like to cover. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

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