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Report: Bobby Kotick Is Still Trying To Hide The Scale Of Activision’s Problems
4The Wall Street Journal is reporting that not only has Activision Blizzard fired dozens of staff in the last few months, but that CEO Bobby Kotick has been hiding that information from the public. Because it might look bad…
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World Of Warcraft Turmoil Around Sudden Appearance Of People Of Colour Is Surprisingly Complex
An unofficial World of Warcraft Discord server has been lit ablaze in recent days. Right now, Twitter is full of screenshots showing people decrying Blizzard adding people of colour to the MMORPG, with one particular comment complaining about how there are “too many Black humans in Stormwind.” This caused an expected community backlash, but the discussion…
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Call of Duty QA Testers Face Layoffs After Reportedly Being Promised Raises By Activision
Today, contract testers at the Call of Duty studio Raven Software were told that the studio would face layoffs on January 28th of next year, a Call of Duty community manager said on Twitter. A source familiar with the goings-on at the company confirmed to Kotaku that for the next few days in early December,…
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Activision’s Damage Control Reaches Sad New Low
Faced with internal unrest, plummeting share prices and a growing public relations disaster, the men and women at the very top of Activision Blizzard — the senior executives and board of directors — should all be resigning. Instead, they’ve put out a desperate press release in the middle of the night announcing the formation of…