image: Activision Quality assurance testers at Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software gave management until today, January 25, to voluntarily recognize their newly formed union, Game Workers Alliance. Instead, embattled publisher Activision Blizzard announced tonight it would be forcing a vote with the National Labor Review Board, and called on that vote to include ...
image: House brand / Sony Ever since Microsoft announced it would buy Activision Blizzard biggest gaming deal ever, Sony fans were keen to see the PS5 maker react somehow, as if the console giant had “big news” stored away in a t-shirt cannon, ready to be hurled into the starving crowd in no time. But ...
image: activity That was just a few days ago 34 quality assurance testers at Raven, one of the studios working exclusively on the call of Duty series, formed the first union ever among Activision Blizzard employees. Today, management has responded to their success with some changes. As igamesnewss Nicole Carpenter reportsRaven studio head Brian Raffel ...
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Chairman of the Public Investment Fundphoto: Agency Anadolu (Getty Images) It is reported by multiple outlets that ESL, one of the oldest and largest eSports companies in the world, has been purchased 1 billion dollars by Savvy Gaming, an esports investment company backed by the wealthy and controversial Saudi Arabian ...
photo: SOPA images (Getty Images) As part of Microsoft’s proposed $70 billion purchaseSome sort of official FAQ was sent out to all Activision Blizzard employees. Unfortunately, not many questions are actually answered, with the answers looking more like giant black holes in the shape of things could be answers. Someday. Could be. The FAQ – ...
photo: mike diaper (Getty Images) As you’ve probably heard, Microsoft wants to buy Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion. But why Activision CEO Bobby Kotick suddenly decided to relinquish control of the company, and where that leaves the ailing executive after the ink has dried, depends on who you ask. For example, Kotick himself ...
photo: FREDERICK J. BROWN (Getty Images) Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard was significant news today, both for the scope of the deal and its shock value. But we shouldn’t be too surprised. That was inevitable. A handful of companies have always wanted to own everything, and nothing will stop them. The proposed sale – for ...
screenshot: sour nerve The big news from Microsoft today is, of course, the acquisition of Activision Blizzard for the nominal fee of, oh, the GDP of a small country. The immediate implications here mean big giants released by Activision like call of Duty and over watch are becoming first-party games in Microsoft’s ever-expanding purview, with ...
image: Microsoft In an extraordinary turn of events, Microsoft is closing in on a deal to buy Activision Blizzard. that Wall Street Journal reported today. Not only would this be one of the biggest upheavals in the gaming industry in years, it could also finally make a difference the end for its terrible CEO Bobby ...
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, seen here in a luxe cashmere turtleneck in 2017.photo: Stuart C Wilson (Getty Images) In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a global pandemic, the CEOs of the largest gaming companies collectively brought home almost $1 billion. This is acc a new ...
