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\nBlizzard’s Albany-based band of Diablo testers have now formally formed a union, following months of delay.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe small QA (quality assurance) team at Blizzard Albany first anounced its intent to unionise back in July<\/a> this year.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe team now becomes the second group of testers within Activision Blizzard to successfully do so, following the similarly long-running push by QA staff at Call of Duty studio Raven Software.\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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