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It’s been one year to date since the gaming community was rocked by news that Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest companies in the video game industry, was being sued by the state of California. The massive lawsuit was filed by the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing for alleged sexual harassment and gender discrimination within the company, exposing [...]
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Over the past year, Activision Blizzard has been the target of multiple investigations and lawsuits due to the alleged frat boy culture and rampant sexual harassment within its offices. The company had apparently started its own internal investigation with the help of an outside firm that they hired for the purpose. The result of that investigation recently came to light [...]
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After months of trying to prevent unionization within its ranks, Activision Blizzard has finally run out of legal ways to delay the inevitable. The Raven Software union was formally approved following a successful election at the end of May which Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has now publicly acknowledged in a press release saying that the company is now ready [...]
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Activision Blizzard has been hit with another lawsuit with the Microsoft merger looming on the horizon. The New York City Employees’ Retirement System and pension funds filed the lawsuit (technically a 220 complaint) in Delaware last week to gain access to the company’s books and internal documents as one of ABK’s shareholders, as news site Axios reports. The city claims [...]
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Activision Blizzard has been under constant public and government scrutiny since the sexual harassment scandal made headlines last year. Even so, the company’s management seems to continually be doing things to further smear their reputation if the recent complaint to the National Labor Relations Board is any indication. The complaint was filed by the Communication Workers Alliance claiming that Activision [...]
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Just when things seem to be looking up for Activision Blizzard after shareholders approved the Microsoft deal, the company has taken another punch to the gut. One that they probably didn’t see coming. No, this isn’t about previous sexual harassment complaints or their repeated attempts to block unionization within the company. It’s about the hundreds of employees that they laid [...]
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We’ve got two big Activision Blizzard news items for you today leading with this week’s shareholder vote on the proposed Microsoft buyout. Activision Blizzard King (ABK) shareholders voted on Microsoft’s proposed acquisition earlier this week with the majority voting in favor of the deal. As previously noted, Microsoft will be purchasing the entirety of ABK’s shares at $95 a pop [...]
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Activision Blizzard took a massive hit to its revenue this past quarter with Blizzard Entertainment bearing the brunt of the dip as revealed in their Q1 2022 financial report. ABK as a whole saw an 18% drop in revenue quarter-over-quarter, from $2.163 billion in Q4 2021 to $1.77 billion for the first quarter of 2022. Blizzard’s revenues, on the other [...]
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After repeated calls for his resignation as CEO of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick still remains in charge in the midst of the sexual harassment and discrimination scandal that rocked the company last year. With Microsoft poised to acquire ABK, it’s still unclear whether Kotick will get to keep his position should the merger be approved as revealed in an SEC [...]
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The Activision Blizzard scandal keeps getting messier and messier with no end in sight. According to Bloomberg, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has accused California Governor Gavin Newsom of interfering in their sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against the video game company. The accusations were leveled against Newsom after he fired the DFEH’s chief counsel in the [...]
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