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Microsoft cancels Blizzard’s survival game due to layoffs

Microsoft cancels Blizzard’s survival game due to layoffs

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 ...

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Embattled ActiBlizz CEO Kotick writes a farewell letter

Embattled ActiBlizz CEO Kotick writes a farewell letter

We knew it would be long-time Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will step down at the end of this year the following Microsoft’s historic acquisition of his company– but we didn’t know he would officially leave on the last day working day 2023, technically two days before the end of the year. This tidbit was ...

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Starfield testers had to band together to get a copy of the game

Starfield testers had to band together to get a copy of the game

Picture: Microsoft / Bethesda / Kotaku Microsoft has agreed to hire the 77 temporary game testers it recently created Quality Assurance Union at ZeniMax Studios. In a groundbreaking moment for the industry’s growing labor movement, 23 of the workers will become full-time employees, while all will receive raises and free copies Starfieldthe open-world role-playing game ...

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Microsoft x Activision Blizzard FAQs do not answer questions

Microsoft x Activision Blizzard FAQs do not answer questions

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 – ...