Screenshot: Snowstorm In a lawsuit describing a disgusting culture of harassment at Activision Blizzard, Overwatch and call of Duty Publisher begins to bleed sponsorship. As discovered by the eSports site Dexter, T-Mobile has apparently drawn support for the professional leagues of both games. T-Mobile has long been a sponsor of the Overwatch and call of ...
Former Blizzard President J. Allen Brackpicture: Snowstorm J. Allen Brack, the President of Warcraft and Overwatch Studio, Blizzard Entertainment, is leaving his position less than two weeks later an investigation by the California Department for Fair Employment and Housing made explosive allegations public of harassment and discrimination in the company. In one opinion Released by ...
Over the weekend, amid all the turmoil and toxic public created by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing investigation and subsequent lawsuit about the company’s abusive workplace conditionsthought Fran Townsend of Activision Blizzard It would be the perfect time to tweet “The Whistleblowing Problem”. To sum it up, this is a woman who ...
photo: Carl Court / AFP (Getty Images) There really aren’t any big games this week, just a relatively short list of smaller games. Maybe you can find a diamond or two in the rough below? This week I’ll probably focus on playing more The climb, This top-down RPG shooter that came out last week. It ...
Screenshot: Activision Blizzard A cybersecurity company, whose security researcher was once harassed by Blizzard employees at a hacking conference, charged the game developer, according to a new report from Waypoint. The researcher Emily Mitchell told Waypoint for reaching the Blizzard booth during Black Hat USA’s annual cybersecurity conference in 2015 to see if the major ...
photo: Eric Thomas (Getty Images) A new open letter signed by nearly 500 current and former Ubisoft employees expresses solidarity with the workers at Activision Blizzard, calls for movement from their own leadership, and calls for systemic change across the video game industry. Axios Reports. “Last week, the gaming industry was shaken again by revelations ...
photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has one public comment addressed to all employees regarding the harassment lawsuit against his company. The full statement is as follows: This has been a difficult and troubling week. I would like to acknowledge and thank all those who have contacted us in the past ...
Chris Metzen at Blizzcon 2013photo: Activision blizzard After the revelations about the severity of long-term sexual harassment and discrimination at Activision-Blizzard, some former senior men who have since left the company take turns speaking very publicly how terrible it all is and how sorry they are , now that they can no longer be held ...
picture: Activision Blizzard / Kotaku Social media accounts related to Activision Blizzard and its various properties were shut down following the California lawsuit against the major video game company make public. Since it became known on Wednesday that the state of California is suing Activision Blizzard for allegedly widespread abuse of its female employees, official ...
photo: Mark Davis (Getty Images) Blizzard co-founder and longtime boss Mike Morhaime took to Twitter just after midnight on Friday for the widespread allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination at the game company he’s headed for so long. “To the Blizzard women who experienced any of these things, I am very sorry I let you ...
