picture: Activision Blizzard / Kotaku / Yevgenij_D (Shutterstock) Developer of the Boston based Game Studio Proletariat announced plans to unionize on Tuesday. If successful, around 60 employees will continue to work there World of Warcraftis new dragonflight extension would join the growing ranks of organized labor through parent company Activision Blizzard and beyond. The group, ...
Somehow, 2022 was both a very big, successful year for Xbox and Game Pass, and one that felt like the gaming giant was slowly losing steam. Sure, the Xbox Series S has quietly become one of the biggest next-gen success stories – easy to find and cheaper than the PS5 or Series X – but ...
picture: Fox / Häagen (Shutterstock) 2022, like many years in recent years, was a flaming train wreck as we continue to deal with it Covid-19 pandemic (and also other viruses), rising inflation, idiotic tech brothers Destroying things and unfortunately much more. But some good things did happen this year, so if you want a nice ...
photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) A group of seven lawmakers is sending a letter to the world’s largest video game companies tomorrow asking each of them what steps they are taking to combat “harassment and extremism” in online video games. As axios reportsThe seven Democratic representatives — including Lori Trahan (Massachusetts), Katie Porter (California) and ...
screenshot: activity B. Microsoft is trying to buy ailing publisher Activision Blizzard starting to hit some serious roadblocksthe software giant is forced to make some concessions to seal the deal. One of these is a series of promises to competing platform owners that, should Microsoft be successful with its purchase, the bestseller call of Duty ...
Xbox Game Studios CEO Phil Spencer takes the stage at the 2015 Game Awards.photo: Allen Berezovsky (Getty Images) It would not be the first timebut Xbox fans are upset in the wake yesterday’s broadcast of The Game Awards. The problem? While competitors like Sony scooped up award after award, the Xbox brand and Xbox-related games ...
picture: Activity | Kotaku (Zack) call of Duty may be one of the most popular series in the world, but it’s not exactly the kind of game you think of when you picture the Nintendo Switch. So in a way it’s very strange to see Microsoft coming out tonight and announcing a “10-year commitment” to ...
picture: blizzard Activision Blizzard’s playbook fell short again. In spite of Delays, Remedies and Threats towards workers that organizing would lead to lower wage increases, quality assurance developers at the Diablo Production studio Blizzard Albany today voted 14-0 to unionize. That Game Workers Alliance Albany are now the second group within Activision Blizzard to form ...
photo: Daniel Boczarsky (Getty Images) In his last written reply to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) group., Microsoft uses lots of data to show that buying struggling publisher Activision Blizzard won’t hurt Sony or Nintendo. While the bizarre self-denial madness continues, it even suggests that the deal will actually help the publisher compete ...
screenshot: ZenMax The court case to justify why Microsoft can take over Activision Blizzard is currently ongoing. In a reply to the UK Markets Inspectorate Statement about the acquisition the publisher suggests that making a “mid-size” game like the upcoming one makes good business sense for them The Elder Scrolls VI exclusive while arguing that ...
