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 ...
image: activity That was just a few days ago 34 quality assurance testers at Raven, one of the studios working exclusively on the call of Duty series, formed the first union ever among Activision Blizzard employees. Today, management has responded to their success with some changes. As igamesnewss Nicole Carpenter reportsRaven studio head Brian Raffel ...
photo: SOPA images (Getty Images) As part of Microsoft’s proposed $70 billion purchaseSome sort of official FAQ was sent out to all Activision Blizzard employees. Unfortunately, not many questions are actually answered, with the answers looking more like giant black holes in the shape of things could be answers. Someday. Could be. The FAQ – ...
photo: mike diaper (Getty Images) As you’ve probably heard, Microsoft wants to buy Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion. But why Activision CEO Bobby Kotick suddenly decided to relinquish control of the company, and where that leaves the ailing executive after the ink has dried, depends on who you ask. For example, Kotick himself ...
photo: FREDERICK J. BROWN (Getty Images) Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard was significant news today, both for the scope of the deal and its shock value. But we shouldn’t be too surprised. That was inevitable. A handful of companies have always wanted to own everything, and nothing will stop them. The proposed sale – for ...
image: Microsoft In an extraordinary turn of events, Microsoft is closing in on a deal to buy Activision Blizzard. that Wall Street Journal reported today. Not only would this be one of the biggest upheavals in the gaming industry in years, it could also finally make a difference the end for its terrible CEO Bobby ...
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, seen here in a luxe cashmere turtleneck in 2017.photo: Stuart C Wilson (Getty Images) In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a global pandemic, the CEOs of the largest gaming companies collectively brought home almost $1 billion. This is acc a new ...
A snap of me, the second of April rolls around.Screenshot: Nintendo For a while it seemed so February would be the busiest month for games in 2022, with marquees like Sifu, elden ring, and Horizon forbidden west fill the calendar. But in the past few days, March has officially taken the crown as the best ...
