image: activity Two Activision Blizzard shareholders have filed a lawsuit call of Duty Publisher for the production supposedly insufficient Disclosures in its recent filings with the SEC about its transaction Sold to Microsoft for $68.7 billion. The investors continued to claim that large payouts for CEO Bobby Kotick and others that would result from the ...
So the DICE Awards, the video game industry’s Oscar equivalent held last night. A number of games took home trophies, including those from Hazelight Studios It takes two, which won its second Game of the Year award – but that wasn’t the biggest news of the night. No, people were waiting to find out what ...
photo: Brian But (Getty Images) On November 16, 2021, a report was released claiming that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick was well aware of the harassment at his company. It has also been alleged that he himself abused women both inside and outside of work. Now, new documents reveal Xbox CEO Phil Spencer called Kotick three ...
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 ...
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 ...
