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Activision employee has used ‘1-800-ALLCOCK’ signature ‘for years’

Activision employee has used ‘1-800-ALLCOCK’ signature ‘for years’

image: action A California lawsuit earlier this year alleged sexual harassment, discrimination and an ubiquitous “frat boy culture” call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard. In at least one case, this culture included an employee signing all of their business emails as “1-800-ALLCOCK”. This detail comes from the latest episode of the Wall Street Journal podcast ...

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Meet the Activision board members who support Bobby Kotick

Meet the Activision board members who support Bobby Kotick

photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard had a nightmarish 2021. with historical allegations of harassment that have caused enormous upheavals in the company, several high profile lawsuits, and the departure (or layoffs) of many key executives and developers. You would think that this mess would fall at the feet of the company’s CEO, Bobby ...

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Vanguard pays tribute to the Modern Warfare Meme

Vanguard pays tribute to the Modern Warfare Meme

People don’t remember much from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but they remember the incredibly creepy scene where the game asks the player to press F to show their respect during a somber funeral. Seven years later, the now infamous meme is in as an achievement in. appeared again Call of Duty: Vanguard. First discovered ...

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Activision Blizzard loses Overwatch sponsors after lawsuit

Activision Blizzard loses Overwatch sponsors after lawsuit

Screenshot: Snowstorm In a lawsuit describing a disgusting culture of harassment at Activision Blizzard, Overwatch and call of Duty Publisher begins to bleed sponsorship. As discovered by the eSports site Dexter, T-Mobile has apparently drawn support for the professional leagues of both games. T-Mobile has long been a sponsor of the Overwatch and call of ...

Activision Blizzard’s social media goes silent after lawsuit

Activision Blizzard’s social media goes silent after lawsuit

picture: Activision Blizzard / Kotaku Social media accounts related to Activision Blizzard and its various properties were shut down following the California lawsuit against the major video game company make public. Since it became known on Wednesday that the state of California is suing Activision Blizzard for allegedly widespread abuse of its female employees, official ...

Call of Duty Warzone Devs bans over 50,000 additional players

Call of Duty Warzone Devs bans over 50,000 additional players

picture: action Call of Duty Warzone The developers at Raven Software confirmed yesterday afternoon that more than 50,000 players were banned from the popular online shooter in two waves in the past week. In a July 1 tweet6 explained to Raven Software that most of the 50,000 players who were banned were repeat offenders. Raven ...

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Modern Warfare’s Low Poly Dog is perfect

Modern Warfare’s Low Poly Dog is perfect

It turns out that digital dogs don’t need a lot of igamesnewss to be good guys. Thanks to them Low poly animals Twitter account for sharing this lows Level of detail model of Call of Duty Modern Warfare. I love this dog. I want to protect this dog. Nobody offends this cute, low poly puppy. ...

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Black Ops Cold War’s menus suck

Black Ops Cold War’s menus suck

Screenshot:: Activision / Kotaku Run up the latest Call of Duty, I was greeted by terrible looking menus, an overwhelming amount of options, too much information, and some ugly looking ads. It’s not a good first impression and feels like a cobbled together mess. In other words, it’s bad. There was a time when I ...