photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) The Wall Street Journal is reporting thatfollowing the company’s recent sale to Microsoft, efforts to pursue Activision Blizzard—and its embattled CEO Bobby Kotick—have escalated at both the state and federal level. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, whose initial investigation kicked off this entire thing last yearhave now ...
Screenshot: Activision Activision Blizzard, a publisher under a government investigation revolving around sexual harassment at the company, allegedly stopped a Call of Duty personality from leading her own team within a tournament held by her own organization. The reason? She’s claiming that the publisher was uncomfortable with her “oversexual tweets.” Kalei Renay is a member ...
image: Activision Quality assurance testers at Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software gave management until today, January 25, to voluntarily recognize their newly formed union, Game Workers Alliance. Instead, embattled publisher Activision Blizzard announced tonight it would be forcing a vote with the National Labor Review Board, and called on that vote to include ...
People play in Beijing in September 2021. photo: Andrea Verdelli (Getty Images) China’s video game license freeze continues. South china morning post notes that the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) has not published a list of newly approved titles since July 2021. Because of this, the state newspaper Securities daily Reports, Approximately 14,000 small ...
image: Mediatonic / Housemarque / Turtle Rock / Money photo by Ozan Kose (Getty Images) The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. During the year, a handful of larger companies consistently bought up a shipload of smaller companies at a rate that announced a new acquisition every few weeks. All of ...
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 ...
Brian Bulatao attends a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on September 16, 2020.photo: swimming pool (Getty Images) With Activision Blizzard employees more organized than ever in the course of the company several sexual harassment lawsuits and Layoffs in quality assurance, a senior executive apparently thought the time had come to send a panicked email warning ...
photo: David McNew (Getty Images) the ABK Worker Alliance, made up of employees from publishing giant Activision Blizzard, today called on supporters to donate to a strike fund to support an ongoing work stoppage over the recently announced one Redundancies. It’s the newest step in an ongoing Protest of their management Answer to months of ...
image: action Today contract testers are the call of Duty Studio Raven Software has been advised that the studio will have layoffs due on January 28th next year call of Duty Community manager said on Twitter. Confirmed by a source familiar with what was going on in the company Kotaku that the quality assurance team ...
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