Microsoft almost 2,000 jobs cut This affects the entire gaming department on January 25th and impacts employees at Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and Xbox. And now we’ve learned that an in-development survival game from Blizzard codenamed “Odyssey” has been canceled and most of the team working on the game has been laid off. The open-world racing ...
photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard has been the focus of criticism for several years due to its widely criticized “boys’ club” corporate culture sleazy games. And now, late Friday evening, just before the holiday season really begins, The Wall Street Journal reports that the embattled gaming company will pay $50 million to settle ...
photo: Barone Firenze / Activision / Kotaku (Shutterstock) Microsoft and Sony have finally reached an agreement to keep it call of Duty on PlayStation once the Activision Blizzard merger is complete. The surprise agreement comes after that Months of struggles between the two companies and is a sign that the takeover is all but inevitable. ...
picture: Activision Blizzard Today, Activision Blizzard fulfilled its daily oopsie quota by blogging about what the publisher’s subsidiaries are like apparently used a special tool to help develop more “diverse” characters. Apparently it believes it can achieve this without, I don’t know, actually talking to or hiring marginalized developers. Why rely on annoying, fallible people ...
picture: Nintendo / MobyGames / Kotaku It was nice almost a month since a former employee filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against Nintendo for surveillance, coercion and retaliation. Aside from an initial statement the company denied being involved in any anti-union activity, the House of Mario has remained publicly silent in the face ...
picture: activity That call of Duty Machine can never stop. It must go on endlessly, through lawsuits, controversies and layoffs. Quitting would mean…well, we don’t know because it never did. And to keep the machine running, Activision now has over 3,000 human souls working tirelessly on the publisher’s largest and most successful video game franchise. ...
photo: Hunter Martin (Getty Images) In less than seven weeks, in May, Activision Blizzard Season 5 will be official over watch League kicks off with a big live event in Texas. But just before the start The league still lacks sponsors. Officials claim there are “ongoing discussions” with various partners but after numerous lawsuits and ...
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: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) The Wall Street Journal is reporting thatfollowing the company’s recent sale to Microsoft, efforts to pursue Activision Blizzard—and its embattled CEO Bobby Kotick—have escalated at both the state and federal level. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, whose initial investigation kicked off this entire thing last yearhave now ...
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 ...
