{"id":18680,"date":"2019-10-14T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=18680"},"modified":"2019-10-14T15:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:12:30","slug":"blizzard-blitzchung-ban-controversy-new-game-chorus-and-the-fortnite-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/14\/blizzard-blitzchung-ban-controversy-new-game-chorus-and-the-fortnite-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Blitzchung ban Controversy, New game Chorus, and the Fortnite Black Hole!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FqvbFM4O_bY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight! For this week we have Blizzard in hot water and repeated controversy over their actions taken against the Hearthstone eSports player Blitzchung and the Hong Kong protests, we have a new interactive musical game from the writer of Dragon Age named Chorus, and the Fortnite season has ended with the game literally being sucked into a black hole, causing players to not be able to play the game in what seems to be a massive Epic Games PR troll stunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight! 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