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DFEH attorney accuses California governor of interfering in the Activision-Blizzard lawsuit
The Activision-Blizzard scandal just keeps on scandaling - and drawing more people and agencies into its ugly orbit. Bloomberg has a piece up today...
MMO Business Roundup: China’s freeze, ABK’s new diversity officer, and Sony and Epic’s metaverse
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
China has ended its latest gaming-approval freeze after nine months of regulators locking out...
Activision-Blizzard promotes over a thousand QA testers and bumps their pay – but not the ones unionizing
Last night, Activision-Blizzard announced that it is converting 1100 quality assurance testers from contract work to full-time with pay starting at a minimum of...
Activision-Blizzard employees stage a digital demonstration over COVID vaccine mandate row
Yesterday saw workers at Activision-Blizzard plan to stage another walkout demonstration over the studio's COVID policies, but bad weather and employees falling ill apparently...
Rumor: World of Warcraft’s next expansion is called Dragonflight according to website code leaks
It should be known by now that dataminers will go to any lengths and plumb any digital depths they can to discover what's coming...
Activision-Blizzard reverses plan to lift in-office vaccine reqs after employee walkout threat
Activision-Blizzard continues to be put on notice by the proto-union A Better ABK and the workers of the studio. The latest incident revolves around...
Overwatch elaborates on the Anniversary Remix vol. 1 event arriving April 5
The anniversary event of Overwatch is on the horizon, but this time it's going to be a bit different. In fact, it's going to...
Some U.S. senators give the Microsoft-Activision buyout the big stink-eye
Not everyone is jumping up and down in approval over the upcoming $68.7 billion Microsoft buyout of Activision Blizzard. According to the Wall Street...
Prime Gaming teams up with Blizzard to offer freebies for Overwatch, Hearthstone, WoW, and StarCraft
Amazon Prime members are likely already very familiar with all of the free stuff they can claim for a wide variety of games, but...
Activision-Blizzard’s $18M settlement with the EEOC is officially finalized
Yesterday saw the long fight among the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and Activision-Blizzard over an $18M...
Bungie files a lawsuit against 10 people allegedly responsible for recent DMCA video strikes
Last week there were reports that fans of Destiny and even developer Bungie itself were on the receiving end of DMCA-led video takedowns. At...
Diablo II Resurrected delays update 2.4 due to ‘showstopper’ bugs, Overwatch 2 outlines its new ping system
For those who are looking forward to the class balancing and competitive ladder features of Diablo II: Resurrected's update 2.4, there's some bad news:...
Another worker lodges a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard
The lawsuits continue to pile up around Activision-Blizzard. Readers will recall that back in December, an Activision-Blizzard worker identified as Christine held a press...
Blizzard launches digital trading cards celebrating 30 years and a games engineering program
For 30 years, Blizzard has been making a variety of games, and the studio is commemorating the different titles and the characters that have...
Activision-Blizzard shareholders will vote on whether to allow Microsoft’s buyout April 28
We all had to know that the process of Microsoft buying out Activision-Blizzard wasn't going to happen quickly or elegantly, and that's not even...
Overwatch 2 hypes its April 26 closed PvP beta as the Overwatch League struggles to secure sponsors
If there's anybody out there still interested in what PvP in Overwatch 2 is going to look like, the previously announced spring beta test...
Three Activision-Blizzard shareholders are under investigation for possible insider trading
Gosh, amidst all of the other scandals rocking Activision-Blizzard, you know what we haven't gotten? A good old insider trading scandal! Maybe in all...
Blizzard’s new diversity lead assures fans of progress on inclusion, worker safety, and accountability
With today being International Women's Day, Blizzard saw fit to grant a spotlight to one of its top women, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)...
Activision Blizzard’s head of esports announces departure as World of Warcraft tunes classes and sets
Brandon Snow, who has been heading the esports division of Activision Blizzard since this past July, is moving on to greener pastures. Snow has...
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO market too segmented?
Back in November 2021's Activision-Blizzard quarterly investor call, Blizzard's Mike Ybarra spoke about the company's vision for the Diablo franchise. He essentially said that...
