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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although it cannot be played, the controversy of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition increases, since we have been able to know that the minigame Hot Coffee (sexual) is in the code of the game. This minigame has never been played in official versions of the title, being only accessible through mods. ...
Every now and then, people that used to work on the Metroid Prime games more than a decade ago offer a little bit more insight into how the games had been developed. Most of the insight is usually small in nature, and it tends to focus on a specific aspect of the development process of ...
A new Waypoint report retrieves statements from various Blizzard employees who have chosen to remain anonymous. Most of them have contracts that prohibit them from disclosing employment matters, so it is logical that they should share these events without revealing their identity. In this case their stories are about Derrick Ingalls, who was the company’s ...
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 ...
It seems that the case of Activision Blizzard we were talking about some days ago continues its course. To our knowledge, some 1,000 current and former company employees have signed a letter calling the company’s responses to a recent discrimination lawsuit “abhorrent and insulting.” This comes after the California Department of Housing and Fair Employment ...
Various companies in the industry are being sued against them due to different internal situations. Workplace, sexual harassment and other types of intimidation are part of the list of accusations and Activision Blizzard has been the most recent company to be part of this group. A lawsuit filed this week It has been a convulsion ...
