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The latest development to the Activision Blizzard situation has the staff calling out the company for working with union busters In a letter penned to CEO Bobby Kotic and the leadership team, the staff are demanding the company essentially cease all activities with WilmerHale, how have had a history of training companies to look for[...]

In the latest development over the Activision Blizzard allegations, employees are now planning a walkout from the company this week The word got out through WoWHead, who received the statement you see below from employees which were passed out to the entire staff On Wednesday, July 28th, the staff is expected to walk out of[...]

A new internal development has occurred at Activision Blizzard as over 1,000 employees have condemned the company's response The news comes from Kotaku this evening as employees shared the letter with the website According to the report, a team drafted the open letter over the weekend and started gaining signatures from across all of the[...]

Here's a snippet from the Bloomberg report. Credit: Activision Blizzard According to the complaint, filed Tuesday in the Los Angeles Superior Court, female employees make up around 20% of the Activision workforce, and are subjected to a "pervasive frat boy workplace culture," including "cube crawls," in which male employees "drink copious amounts of alcohol as they crawl[...]

The Overwatch League announced this week they will be bringing live audiences back for the postseason happening this September.

Call Of Duty League pros are some of the most followed, most influential esports personalities in the world, and they demand form and function in anything they wear – especially when it comes to their eyes," said Jack Harari, Vice President, Global Partnerships at Activision Blizzard Esports "We believe the Zenni product line will resonate[...]

Over the weekend, the Call Of Duty League completed the Major Stage One tournament with $500k on the line and an unsurprising victor.

Activision Blizzard has had to make a few adjustments to the Call Of Duty League this week due to the terrible weather we're experiencing In case you happen to live on the west coast of the United States, you may have missed the fact that the past week of weather across the country has been[...]

Starting at 12pm PT today, Activision Blizzard will kick off the first week of the 2021 Season for Call Of Duty League The series will start with the Atlanta FaZe Home Series, with all matches being broadcast live on YouTube We have the complete schedule for you here as well as a list of events[...]

Activision Blizzard pretty much confirmed today that Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV probably won't be released in 2021 The news literally dropped with a thud in the middle of an earnings call this afternoon in which the company was going over the Q4 2020 results and numbers Somewhere in the middle of the meeting, the[...]

Blizzard Entertainment dropped a few new details today about what's to come for BlizzConline happening from February 19th-20th, 2021.

Stunning news today from Activision Blizzard as Vicarious Visions has been merged as a whole into Blizzard Entertainment The news first came out from GameIndustry.biz, who reported that the decision happened today and that the company will essentially cease to be as all of the employees will now be on the Blizzard team Here's a[...]

This past week, Activision Blizzard revealed the plans for the 2021 season for Call Of Duty League, including the opening weekend details As you might suspect, this season will be completely different compared to the inaugural season, primarily because player will be operating with the Black Ops Cold War setup instead of Modern Warfare, but[...]

Blizzard Entertainment revealed a brand new look coming to Battle.net as they showed off images for the upcoming Version 2.0.

In a move that caught a lot of people off-guard this morning, MLB's Tony Petitti will be headed to Activision Blizzard in a new role Petitti has been in the role of Deputy Commissioner this season, having previously been the league's COO and President of the MLB Network His new role at the company will[...]

The Call Of Duty League had a couple of cool announcements this week as they have a new contest for you as well as a new trophy.

Activision-Blizzard released a list of upcoming books they will be releasing from a few of their properties over the rest of 2020.

Activision-Blizzard revealed today that the inaugural season of the Call Of Duty League will resume with an online-only format starting on April 10th.

Well, now we know what got Activision Blizzard to move from Twitch to YouTube so quickly with their broadcasts with a very lucrative deal Last month the company abruptly moved over to the platform for all their esports streaming in what at the time was simply announced as a "multi-year strategic partnership" We now know[...]

According to the team, the perk was not chosen on purpose it was purely an accident. Credit: Activision Blizzard L.A still lost the match to Minnesota, however, the team posted a statement yesterday saying that while they "accept a player did inadvertently use a banned perk, it did not affect the outcome of the game." However, the[...]

This week, Activision Blizzard announced that they had entered into a new multi-year "strategic relationship" with Google to power new player experiences The main takeaways from the deal are that Google Cloud will serve as the preferred provider for Activision Blizzard's game hosting infrastructure, while YouTube will serve as its exclusive streaming partner (Except for[...]

Last week, Activision Blizzard announced that Karl-Anthony Townes will be at their event for a special celebrity Hype Battle at the Minneapolis event. Another performer has jumped on to perform during the Royal Ravens inaugural home series, as Wale will perform during the Call Of Duty League event ReKTGlobal was happy to announce today that[...]

We're slowly getting the details of what Activision Blizzard has in store for Call Of Duty League's launch weekend, including celebrity cameos This week, Karl-Anthony Towns confirmed he will be a part of the event in a special Hype Battle against yet-to-be-confirmed opponents and teammates The battle will take place on Sunday, January 26th in[...]

That's a cool little achievement for the new league, especially since some CoD tournaments of the same size never sell out and there's always chances for last-minute ticketing. Credit: Activision Blizzard Launch Weekend for the Call Of Duty League will be hosted by Minnesota Røkkr This is the team operated by WISE Ventures Esports, under the ownership[...]

Here are a couple quotes from this morning's announcement as we look forward to seeing who will be fighting against who. Credit: Activision Blizzard "We are thrilled with the continued growth of the Call of Duty esports footprint as an international, city-based league with 12 teams in 4 countries, all of which deliver epically entertaining competition to[...]

This morning, Activision Blizzard Esports revealed the full details of how the new Call Of Duty League will officially run It'll be organized much like the Overwatch League currently is, with teams from different cities instead of groups, even though there are several groups as owners, as you'll see below No central spot to compete[...]

This morning, Activision Blizzard and Tencent Games officially launched Call Of Duty: Mobile for people to download free on iOS and Android If you haven't checked out the game yet, it basically provides the CoD multiplayer experience with maps from both the Modern Warfare and Black Ops franchises Ready to play from a mobile device[...]

We have the details below from both teams as the league now grows to nine groups. credit//Activision Blizzard ·         Florida – Misfits Gaming, founded by Ben Spoont together with Syfy Channel founders Laurie Silvers and Mitch Rubenstein, is a professional esports organization based in Germany and Florida, USA with players competing in League of Legends, Overwatch, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and[...]

Today, Activision Blizzard announced two new additions to the new Call Of Duty esports league being formed, as two new cities join the roster Those two locations will be Minnesota (representing the entire state) and Los Angeles, California That brings the total so far to seven teams as the previous five to join are Atlanta,[...]

And it needed one last year. Nanzer announced his split with Overwatch publisher Activision Blizzard on Twitter He posted a lengthy thread expressing how proud he is of the Overwatch League and all it has accomplished so far. I can't emphasize enough how proud I am of what we've all accomplished together It has been the honor of[...]