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The hits just keep on coming for Activision Blizzard. And it's not the good kind. Following the massive workplace harassment investigation and controversy that spanned for a year or so, Activision Blizzard is facing hot water yet again. This time, it's being sued by the family of an employee who died by suicide. According to the Washington Po...
An analyst has claimed that Microsoft will have trouble acquiring big Japanese game studios due to cultural factors but it’s still not out of the question. In the past, Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has expressed interest in acquiring an Asian game developer, “particularly a Japanese studio,†but Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of T...
As you know, Microsoft has bought Activision Blizzard. In spite of potentially making most of the latter's IPs exclusive to Xbox consoles, Microsoft will be honouring previously-made agreements to release Call of Duty games for PlayStation consoles. According to Bloomberg reports, these include the next three Call of Duty games. These three CoD ...
A group of Raven Software Quality Assurance employees have become the first Activision Blizzard workers to form a union. It's called the Game Workers Alliance, and it's working with Communications Workers of America. According to a press release, the QA workers said the union marks the first of its kind at Activision Blizzard. Members have reque...
Moments after the news of Xbox buying Activision Blizzard broke, Sony's shares have taken a dip. Sony's shares fell by over 7% following the news, wiping US$20 billion off Sony's market value within the day. This marks the company's lowest close since late October 2021. The recent Xbox acquisition was worth US$68.7 billion, and the company st...
2022 is starting out with a seismic shift in the games industry. Microsoft has announced that they have agreed to purchase Activision Blizzard. According to the announcement, this means that Microsoft will now own Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, Beenox, Demonware, Digital Legends, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, King, Major Leag...
The Activision Blizzard saga still continues. The company has recently gotten rid of nearly 40 employees due to workplace misconduct since last summer. Back in July 2021, the company was sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing for its failure to handle sexual discrimination and harassment against female employees. So Act...
RICOCHET Anti-Cheat is already live across Call Of Duty Vanguard and Call Of Duty Warzone with server-side updates and other backend elements to combat cheating. The Asia Pacific is the first region in the world to receive the update, before expanding to other regions worldwide. For those unfamiliar, RICOCHET Anti-Cheat is a PC kernel-level driv...
Developers and employees at Raven Software are organizing a walkout today in protest of the ongoing slew of layoffs which started last Friday on 3 December 2021. The studio is responsible for developing and working on Call Of Duty Warzone, and thus they are under Activision Blizzard. In a statement to Kotaku, the walkout group said that they wer...
Update [4 December 2021]: Geoff Keighley stated that Activision Blizzard will not be a part of this year's Game Awards. https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1467007741214347264 The Game Awards 2021 may have its fair share of controversy during the weekend. The show's host and creator Geoff "Mountain Dew" Keighley said to the Washington...
There you have it, folks. The full trinity of the games industry has now voiced out against the toxic reports and issues at Activision Blizzard. It started with Sony and then, Xbox, shortly after. Now, Nintendo has finally joined the fray. According to a report by Fanbyte, Doug Bowser expressed concern over the ongoing problems at Activision ...
Talk about reading the room. First, it was Sony Interactive president and CEO Jim Ryan criticizing Activision Blizzard in an internal email. Now, it's Xbox boss Phil Spencer sending a similar email to Microsoft staff (via Bloomberg). Spencer said that the Xbox leadership team is "disturbed and deeply troubled by the horrific events and action" a...
A new report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has shed new light on why Jennifer Oneal only had a brief stint as co-head of Blizzard alongside Mike Ybarra after J. Allen Brack stepped down. She was appointed in August 2021 but later announced her decision to leave the role in early November 2021. Back then, she explained that she was resigning t...
Blizzard announced recently that due to recent events over the past few months, its marquee titles will be delayed for a further amount of time. Action RPG Diablo 4 and competitive multiplayer shooter Overwatch 2, already without release windows, will be out later than "sometime after 2021". Here's the official company statement: "As we have wo...
Disclaimer: Diablo Immortal is out right now in select regions. This update will be updated periodically to reflect the game's numerous changes post-launch. Diablo Immortal is out now for certain regions, and if you're lucky enough to score a closed beta code. It's quite the talk of the town if you're into action RPGs at the moment, with peopl...
World of Warcraft Classic players will get to start fresh with a new character, starting from level one, when the Season of Mastery realms goes live globally at 6am GMT+8 on 17 November 2021. Similar to WoW Classic’s launch, players will be able to log onto the servers ahead of when they’re going live to create characters start...
The past few weeks and months have been rough for Blizzard due to workplace abuse allegations and the statewide lawsuit that followed. The company's annual BlizzCon showings of 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to COVID-19, and now 2022's show is also following suit. In a letter to the game company's community on Blizzard's website, the developer...
Blizzard co-chief Mike Ybarra caused some controversy among World of Warcraft players, as if this year's Blizzard lawsuits aren't enough. Ybarra tweeted about a "heroic Sanctum of Domination sales run" where it seem like a regular invitation to watch a WoW raid in progress. Savvy players however see this as an offer to carry under-qualified play...
Activision Blizzard still cannot catch a break. The company has recently made 20 employees and more "exit" from its doors for the past few months due to ongoing investigations into workplace harassment. These 20 employees have also faced disciplinary action, following a ramping up of internal processing in response to the California lawsuit fili...
To continue its global expansion, Call of Duty developers Sledgehammer Games will be expanding beyond its Austin, Texas location. The company will be opening a new studio in Guildford, United Kingdom, as part of its efforts to continue its global operations. Previously, Sledgehammer has opened a studio in Melbourne, Australia, and another studio...
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