Man With Gun Representing Shooty Game Developer. Screenshot: action call of Duty Studio Treyarch has just released the latest in a long line of gritty apologies from Activision-owned studios regarding the ongoing investigation company-wide sexism, harassment, discrimination and bullying. In one Tweet published today, just over a month after Wall Street Journal reported on Studio ...
Since a report directly targeted Bobby Kotick for ignoring cases of abuse and harassment at Activision Blizzard, the torrent of controversies have once again surrounded the company. The penultimate stone in the way for the company has been the succession of complaints by the state treasurers of the United States, at the same time that ...
Appeals from state treasurers from six U.S. states-California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Oregon, Delaware, and Nevada Activision Blizzard After the high-profile investigations and lawsuits that have shaken the gaming industry in the past six months, more meaningful changes have been made to the company’s operations. According to Axios, finance executives from six states have requested a meeting ...
While the pressure on Bobby Kotick is still intense from different angles in Activision Blizzard, the discontent among the workers has not ceased. The resignations and dismissals of high positions of the company have happened in the last months, but now there has been a really important march. Jessica Gonzalez, the company’s senior test analyst, ...
Research in recent months on Activision Blizzard it seemed to have reached a point of stability. There are several pending cases, such as the initial litigation of the DFEH for harassment and discrimination in the company’s workforce, but a new report completely shakes the company’s ranks. Has been The Wall Street Journal the one in ...
Thanks to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Activision has once again become the focus of attention. In short, Treyarch’s co-leaders have left the company and filed two claims against Sledgehammer Games, and Blizzard has filed another accusation. In addition, the Wall Street Journal also reported instances of Bobby Kotick’s bad behavior and ...
Throughout all the controversy that has surrounded Activision Blizzard In recent months, two main focuses have been created. On the one hand we have the DFEH, the Californian body that began the whirlwind of accusations after imposing a lawsuit for harassment and discrimination. In the other band is the EEOC, the American agency that arrived ...
It has now been a year and a half since Ubisoft tried to put out the fire that resulted from the Liberation newspaper’s investigation, which testifies to a toxic culture practiced internally by some senior executives. A new testimony today brings a different view of the French giant’s sincerity. After a catastrophic investigation into the ...
Dom PepyatAugust 4, 2021 09:14 GMT Things are getting worse Activision BlizzardShareholders are now arguing that because company executives deliberately concealed information about sexual harassment lawsuits, they were “economically harmed.” The new class action lawsuit was filed after a two-year investigation in California, and a lawsuit has been filed in California Federal Court by the ...
The situation at Activision is generating a chain reaction that has ended up reaching Ubisoft. Activision Blizzard employees wrote a letter that already exceeds 1,000 signatories and which they directed to their company management in search of answers and solutions. And it is that the state of California published an investigation that leaves a bad ...
