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Diablo 4 developers win second Union vote within Activision Blizzard

Diablo 4 developers win second Union vote within Activision Blizzard

picture: blizzard Activision Blizzard’s playbook fell short again. In spite of Delays, Remedies and Threats towards workers that organizing would lead to lower wage increases, quality assurance developers at the Diablo Production studio Blizzard Albany today voted 14-0 to unionize. That Game Workers Alliance Albany are now the second group within Activision Blizzard to form ...

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Microsoft explains why Elder Scrolls VI could be exclusive

Microsoft explains why Elder Scrolls VI could be exclusive

screenshot: ZenMax The court case to justify why Microsoft can take over Activision Blizzard is currently ongoing. In a reply to the UK Markets Inspectorate Statement about the acquisition the publisher suggests that making a “mid-size” game like the upcoming one makes good business sense for them The Elder Scrolls VI exclusive while arguing that ...

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FTC seeks to halt Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard

FTC seeks to halt Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard

picture: OnlyPhoto (Getty Images) Politically are reporting that the Federal Trade Commission “is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard,” according to three people with knowledge of the matter. the FTC, emboldened by their recent success in preventing the merger of book publishers Penguin ...

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Activision tries to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit, fails

Activision tries to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit, fails

picture: Activity | igamesnews For the second time this year, publisher Activision Blizzard—Subject of historic allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination– tried to drop the case against it. And for the second time it failed. Earlier this year, in an attempt to stop the California Department of Civil Rights (formerly known as the California ...

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New Activision Lawsuit Raises Revenge Porn, Harassment Claims

New Activision Lawsuit Raises Revenge Porn, Harassment Claims

picture: SOPA images (Getty Images) A government investigation into the company began more than a year after the initial reportsPublisher Activision Blizzard is facing new lawsuits in what in this latest case is described as “a pervasive ‘fraternity boy’ workplace culture that is a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women.” Content Warning: Harassment. ...

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Overwatch 2 “Launch experience was frustrating”

Overwatch 2 “Launch experience was frustrating”

picture: Activision Blizzard surveillance 2 didn’t have a good time. After going through two attacks from outside that made it almost impossible to play the hero shooter came under fire for his bad cell phone policy. Then many had problems while playing surveillance 2 with friends. Blizzard worked to ease that pain by removing the ...

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Overwatch 2 Phone Request: “Punished For Being Poor”

Overwatch 2 Phone Request: “Punished For Being Poor”

picture: blizzard “It feels like being punished for being poor” over watch Player Richard Meunster tells my box via email. A long with 19 million other peopleRichard and his brother both use Cricket Wireless, one of the prepaid phone services that surveillance 2 will not accept its newly introduced mandatory two-factor authentication system, SMS protection. ...

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Controversial executive resigns from Call of Duty publisher

Controversial executive resigns from Call of Duty publisher

screenshot: CBS Viacom/Kotaku In a past life, Frances Townsend defended the legal basis for the torture method known as waterboarding George W. Bush’s War on Terror. In a more recent one, she has helped direct Activision Blizzard’s initially unmusical response a major sexual harassment lawsuit from the state of California. Now she resigns as that ...