Screenshot: Money ball Beleaguered Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick last week was the subject of staff shortages and shareholder claims after his resignation, allegedly said he will “consider leaving” if he cannot quickly address the harassment issues that made headlines around the world this year. the Wall Street Journal says Kotick met with executives at ...
image: action A California lawsuit earlier this year alleged sexual harassment, discrimination and an ubiquitous “frat boy culture” call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard. In at least one case, this culture included an employee signing all of their business emails as “1-800-ALLCOCK”. This detail comes from the latest episode of the Wall Street Journal podcast ...
photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard had a nightmarish 2021. with historical allegations of harassment that have caused enormous upheavals in the company, several high profile lawsuits, and the departure (or layoffs) of many key executives and developers. You would think that this mess would fall at the feet of the company’s CEO, Bobby ...
photo: Mike Windle (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick claimed to be in the dark about widespread allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination that surfaced at the company earlier this year new bomb report from The Wall Street JournalNot only was Kotick aware of the wrongdoing, he was also involved in ignoring or downplaying ...
Million Arthur was Square Enix’s first entry into the world of NFTsimage: Square Enix Earlier this year Kotaku reported that Square Enix got into NFTs. At the time, the Tokyo-based game maker dipped its toes in the non-fungible waters. Now it looks like Square Enix is ready to take the plunge. As noticed earlier, Square ...
Which city will the next be? image: Nintendo While you might think Nintendo had a number of official stores in Japan, the Kyoto-based game company only has one. The Tokyo-based store, cleverly dubbed Nintendo Tokyo, opened in November 2019. But that will change because now, in November 2021, Nintendo has announced a second. It is ...
Good night Fortnite China.image: Fortnite China The official site for Fourteen days China announced that on November 15 of this year the service of the game for the country ends. As Denfaminico player points out that no specific reason has been given as to why the game is closing, but there is speculation that it ...
image: Sony / Kotaku The PSP is long dead. The Playstation Vita too. But long live Valve’s Steam Deck, a handheld that is just around the corner and thanks to Sony’s new PC gaming push will finally do it the dream play the company’s biggest blockbusters on a small portable device. While the initial units ...
image: Activision Blizzard Back in January it was announced that Vicarious Visions, the studio that was recognized for its work on the Tony Hawk Remakes and a library of excellent licensed games, would merge with Blizzard. Now it turned out that this company move means that the developer also changes his name. As Polygon report, ...
Screenshot: Annapurna Interactive After years of previewing, indie game Twelve minutes will finally be released this week a top-class cast included Daisy Ridley and Willem Dafoe. Twelve minutes was first introduced by Kotaku all the way back in 2015. Then in 2019, we saw it again. Now after all of that, there is free. I ...
