Can We Believe Blizzard Will Avoid Crunch with the Overwatch 2 Seasonal Model?

Overwatch 2 is finally nearing its PVP launch after decoupling the game’s competitive side and the cooperative story mode. Blizzard announced during the 2022 Xbox and Bethesda showcase th...

Activision Clarifies Diversity Tool Not Used In "Active Game Development" After Explaining Use

Activision-Blizzard-King has updated its bizarre blog post outlining a tool that distills popular characters down to a series of  ‘diverse’ metrics on a spider chart. Prior to yesterday’s update,...

Americans Paid $228 Million For Activision Blizzard's Tax Credits In 2018

The end of the year is coming, and we Americans are all doing the math on how much we’ll dish out to the government come April. But it turns out that, if you’re a dedicated gamer, you’ve probably alre...

Warcraft 3 Classic Owners Are Forced to Download Reforged Instead

To say Warcraft 3: Reforged is “a bit of a disappointment” would be a massive understatement. It’s buggy, under-delivers on promises, and forces custom game creators to abandon their inte...

Activision Inexplicably Introduces Tool to Rate Character Diversity Metrics

I don’t know if you have heard, but corporate oligarch Activision-Blizzard-King has an image problem when it comes to marginalized groups. Whether it’s about the decidedly cartoon villain-like actions...

Activision-Blizzard to Promote US-Based QA Workers to Full-Time Staff Following Strike, Union Efforts [UPDATE]

Activision-Blizzard is converting all of its contract QA workers into full-time employees with rates starting at $20 per hour.

Blizzard Announces a New Survival Game That They're For Some Reason Still Calling Unannounced

Kind of out of nowhere, Blizzard Entertainment today tweeted an announcement of a new survival game set in a brand new Blizzard universe, which they are still inexplicably calling Unannounced Survival...

Bobby Kotick Reportedly a Piece of Shit [UPDATE]

The Wall Street Journal has posted an extensive report about Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, specifically how he has, to some extent, been involved with or aware of various cases of harassme...

Microsoft to Acquire Activision-Blizzard Amidst Ongoing Workplace Culture Scandal [UPDATE]

In the midst of Activision-Blizzard’s ongoing legal trouble following a California lawsuit for harassment and discrimination in its workplace culture, Microsoft is buying the Call of Duty...

Nintendo Issues Internal Response to Activision-Blizzard Reports

Update 8:30 PM PT — Nintendo PR sent the following in response to our request for comment and clarification on what actions were taken: “We can confirm the content of Doug Bowser’s internal email to N...

Activision-Blizzard Shareholder Criticizes 'Inadequate' Response to Workplace Culture Lawsuit

It wasn’t surprising, but it was a weird moment of cognitive dissonance when Activision-Blizzard investors came off the news that the company is the subject of a lawsuit for sexist workplace cultu...

Activision-Blizzard Employees Call for Honesty, Resignation After Harassment Lawsuit

Last week, Activision-Blizzard became the subject of a lawsuit claiming the company had allowed sexism and harassment to permeate through its ranks. The stories noted in the suit were vile, and so...

Bobby Kotick Makes Money When People Lose Their Jobs

Okay, let’s just get this out of the way: the goals of big business are incompatible with keeping employees happy, healthy, and employed.

Blizzard Strike Proves Crunch Isn't the Industry's Only Labor Issue

Following the news that Blizzard will be shutting down its Versailles office, and taking hundreds of jobs with it, three unions representing Blizzard employees in France have called for a strike. ...