vicarious visions
National Labor Relations Board denies Activision-Blizzard’s attempt to freeze Albany QA workers’ union vote
While this might have seemed like a Sisyphean effort on the part of Activision-Blizzard, it's still always good to know when flagrant unionbusting efforts...
Activision-Blizzard continues obstructing QA worker unionization with latest appeal
A few weeks ago, the QA division of Blizzard Albany - that is, the studio formerly known as Vicarious Visions that is working on...
Blizzard Albany’s Diablo QA wins right to unionize as NLRB rejects Activision-Blizzard challenge
It's a good day for games industry workers as Activision-Blizzard has once again failed to suppress the burgeoning worker unions forming within the company:...
Blizzard is union-busting again, this time targeting the Diablo IV team
It would appear that Blizzard just can't stop trying to fight those pesky workers. QA devs at Blizzard Albany, formerly known as Vicarious Visions...
It’s been exactly one year since Activision-Blizzard’s sexual discrimination and harassment scandal broke out
One year ago today, I was puttering around in the evening, probably playing video games, when our tipbox exploded with the news that a...
Diablo III’s new season brings the Echoing Nightmare feature and quality-of-life updates to Greater Rifts
Are you ready to relive the tortured memories of Nephalem who fell in a Greater Rift until you're inevitably overwhelmed or defeated? If that...
Blizzard fully assimilates Diablo II: Resurrected’s Vicarious Visions
It's always with a vague sense of unease that we witness studios acquired by larger game developers and then, more often than not, completely...
Blizzard’s Vicarious Visions says bringing Diablo II to consoles was ‘a labor of love’
With Diablo II: Resurrected's launch a couple of weeks away, Blizzard's Vicarious Visions is taking the opportunity to share about how the project was...
Activision-Blizzard Day 14: Brack and Meschuk exits, fraud lawsuit, proto-union, and Q2 financials
It's been a helluva Tuesday in the swamps of the Activision-Blizzard sexism scandal: The day opened with the departure of J. Allen Brack from...
Diablo II’s remaster is officially in the works
It's no longer just a rumor; now we know for a fact that Activision Blizzard is working on a remastered version of the classic...
Blizzard absorbs 200 Activision employees following merge of rumored Diablo II remaster team
The Blizzard family got a whole lot bigger this past week. Games Industry reported that the World of Warcraft developer absorbed 200 employees from...
So why is Destiny 2’s PC version being held back?
PC players looking forward to Destiny 2's fall release are probably going through a torrent of emotions this week. While it's great that Bungie...
Activision brings Vicarious Visions in to work on Destiny
Some big things are happening with Destiny. We already knew that Destiny 2 was on its way, and there's the rumor that it's coming...
