Microsoft President Brad Smithphoto: Valeria Mongelli / Bloomberg (Getty Images) Today, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Xbox CEO Phil Spencer spoke briefly to the media about it ongoing attempt to consume Activision Blizzard Kingonce again pretending it was all about the bigger spavin call of Duty. At one point, Smith said he had a contract ...
photo: Bloomberg (Getty Images) While the worst of the pandemic is clearly over, a few years of getting people to work from home has shown that many people are happier and even work better when they can do it where they live. So make decisions Violence Employees returning to the office will understandably face resistance ...
Picture: Sega Samba de Amigo, a game first released in arcades in the 20th century but best known for its Dreamcast version, is over twenty years old. So now, in 2023, it’s time for it to return, once again on a Nintendo console with motion controls. If you’ve never played it, you have miss: It ...
screenshot: CNBC/Kotaku To relieve UK regulators reluctance In order to approve the Microsoft acquisition, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick reached out to CNBC to make the case for the merger. Be Comments on the becoming of the United Kingdom “Death Valley”, if the merger was not approved, deserved it well deserved mockery. But maybe we ...
screenshot: CNBC There are serious concern being voiced around the world on Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, with opposition coming not just from Xbox’s competitors, but from all also from Google to Nvidia. You would think that such a precarious situation would require delicate diplomacy, but then, We’re talking about Activision here. ...
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picture: blizzard A story continued Bloomberg earlier today with the headline “Blizzard exec quits in protest at employee ranking system”. It sounds very businesslike, maybe something that would end up in an HR manager’s Linkedin newsfeed, but the stuff it describes is important because it sounds absolutely dystopian. Here is how this “employee ranking system” ...
Assassin’s Creed: Syndicatescreenshot: Ubisoft Ubisoft hasn’t had its best years. A string of flops and disappointments means the company isn’t in the best shape heading into 2023, In an attempt to get everyone to lay off last week, CEO Yves Guillemot emailed employees to tell them: “The ball is yours”. It didn’t go down well. ...
screenshot: Wadjet eye games Remember the early days of Humble Bundles? When every newly announced deal felt so important and literally millions of dollars were raised for charity each time? It still happens occasionally, like last year Stand with the Ukraine Bundle the raised a staggering $20 million for charities working in the country, but ...
photo: Casimiro PT (Shutterstock) Good Old Games or GOG, CD Projekt’s marketplace and platform for non-digital rights managed PC games, has officially ended a service that already didn’t feel all that long to this world. What once seemed like a promising way to slowly import parts of your Steam library into GOG, where they could ...
picture: BlizzardEntertainment Back in November, Blizzard and NetEase ended their 14-year partnership to bring the Warcraft Games from developers to China. Now it sounds like the NetEase team that managed the company’s games has been completely disbanded. South China tomorrow post reports that NetEase-affiliated Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology has fired or reassigned “most of the ...
