If you follow the video game industry, the odds are good that you've heard of a company calledActivision Blizzard(NASDAQ: ATVI) . The gaming giant develops many popular game franchises, including theCall of Dutyseries of first-person shooters, the extremely popular multiplayer online role-playin...
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Activision Blizzard headquarters in Santa Monica, California. Image via: Wikimedia Commons Timeline of the deal’s troubles Unfortunately for Microsoft, the scope of the deal and its effect on the gaming industry caught the eyes of many regulators, governments, competitors, and agencies worldwide. ...
American video game holding company, Activision Blizzard Inc. has fired more than 20 of its employees on Tuesday. The said individuals, including some senior developers, were allegedly involved in sexual harassment and discrimination at the workplace. Additionally, 20 other employees are facing discipl...
Microsoft cut 1,900 employees, or 8% of its staff, from its Gaming division in January, after successfully acquiring Activision Blizzard. Investment in the gaming industry plummeted. According to capital analysis firm Pitchbook, it fell from $14.6 billion in 2022 to just $4.1 bill...
There’s a lot more stuff included, such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s chat with Bloomberg about the acquisition, quotes from various Microsoft employees on how this buyout is good for gamers, and loads more! Speaking of Nadella, in his recent chat with Bloomberg, the ...
It feels like we’ve been ruminating over tech layoffs for a long time now, but the onslaught keeps on coming. According to redundancies trackerLayoffs.fyi, over 24,000 employees have been laid off in 2024 so far, with high-profile announcements from Salesforce, SAP, eBay, Google, PayPal...
While the Activision acquisition means an enormous chunk of the gaming pie would be owned by Microsoft, Jeff Sue, general manager of the Americas at Mintegral, said there are still many avenues for marketers to enter that universe, and a lot more IPs for companies to snatch up....
基本上,这种变化就反应在Activision Blizzard CEO的第一句判断里 Connecting and engaging people through epic entertainment has never been more important. I am incredibly proud of Activision Blizzard employees’ resilience, compassion, and dedication, and how they continue to support each other and our comm...
employees at over a dozen video game studios in the US have formed unions. In 2023, workers at Sega of America and Activision Blizzard filed petitions to form unions, while in January of this year, employees at ZeniMax Media, which is owned by Microsoft, successfully reache...