A new actor has jumped onto the scene of the scandal surrounding Activision Blizzard. The New York City has urged the company to issue an annual report on the status of cases of harassment and discrimination among the workforce, a text that the company wants not to be published. Now, the representatives of one of ...
photo: Jeff Kravitz (Getty Images) Here are two key facts about Stewart Copeland. First, he was the drummer for The police. Second, he composed the soundtracks to the three originals Spyro the dragon games. You need to keep those two things in mind for this story. Copeland was recently interviewed by vultureand at the very ...
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 ...
DJ Khaled (left) to Bobby Kotick (right), probably: “Another one.”photo: Bryan Bedder (Getty Images) Yes, you read that right. CNBC recently uncovered that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick established not one but two secret companies through which he donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to political campaigns. The two companies, 807080A LLC and Norgate LLC, ...
The case has been on everyone’s lips for a few days: Microsoft’s attempt to take over Activision Blizzard risks reshuffling a few cards … and getting back missing licenses? Because he sometimes struggles to talk about anything other than his compensation, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick spoke to our colleagues VentureBeat about future opportunities. With ...
After the earthquake of the announcement of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, sentiment has softened to reasonable levels. All this, to start again with the interview from the publisher’s president, Bobby Kotick. On the microphone of VentureBeat, the man spoke of his desire to see the licenses that had been forgotten for several years reappear. Thanks ...
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 ...
Image: Activision Blizzard The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick was considering the purchase of gaming sites Kotaku and PC Gamer in order to “change the public narrative” around his company. Activision has been at the centre of allegations regarding workplace culture and harassment for some time now, a fact ...
The planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft is causing a lot of movement in the company. The question of what will happen to the controversial CEO Bobby Kotick is still open. Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard for a whopping $70 billion hit yesterday like a bomb. But one question kept coming up afterwards: what ...
It’s unclear what role Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will play once the deal with Microsoft closes. In an interview with The New York Times, Kotick declined to say whether he would remain Activision’s chief executive after the deal, but told the paper that he would continue to be “on call as needed to ensure ...
