Activision Blizzard has begun laying off eight percent of its staff, announced the publisher in an earnings call earlier today. The company has around 9,600 employees, which would mean more than 750 people will be laid off. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick told investors the company had "o...
Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week. While Microsoft is primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted by the cuts. The cuts work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming di...
The employees joined the protest of 60 Raven Software employees who walked out on Monday in response to the layoffs. The group laid off recently relocated to Wisconsin where Raven Software is based in order to continue work but were given notice that their employment would be terminated in ...
Five weeks after Activision-Blizzard laid off twelve of Raven's QA testers, sixty other employees staged a walk out. The employees and the Communication Workers Alliance (CWA) have since announced the foundation of the Game Workers Alliance, which Raven’s remaining employees joined with a super...
opted to leave in 2020 when Blizzard refused to upgrade them from contract to full-time, realizing that they were apt to be swept up in the next round of layoffs. Sure enough,Blizzard laid off around 50 employeesfrom its esports division in March 2021, citing difficulties from ...
Speaking to multiple current and recently laid off employees, IGN has confirmed reports that Bungie took responsibility for the layoffs, rather than laying them at the feet of parent company Sony. Parsons told employees that the layoffs were largely due to underperformance of Destiny ...
One of the major issues stems from Blizzard’s parent company Activision forcing it to cut costs, which resulted in hundreds of lost jobs in 2019. The remaining staff were forced to pick up the workload of laid-off employees, but that did not come with wage increases. In Activision’s ea...
In a bid to cut costs, Blizzard has expanded a scheme that offers employees money to leave the company, according to a Kotaku report. Sources also state that the company has given more power to its finance department to cut spending, and has reduced the budgets of any teams not directly ...
At the beginning of this year, 1/4 of all France office employees were laid-off already and got their severance packages, while the rest of the employees affected by this move are expecting relocation somewhere else in Europe. A company spokesman corresponding with Bloomberg has said that "...
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and, as a reward, Activision put that part of High Moon on Call of Duty and Destiny. The other part of the studio released Deadpool and then Activision Blizzard laid off 40 employees. Now, the studio gets to support Call of Duty until it's eventually ...