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Activision Blizzard Settles U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Lawsuit, Agrees To Establish $18 Million Victims Fund

September 29, 2021

Activision Blizzard has agreed to settle the discrimination lawsuit filed against them by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by establishing an $18 Million victims fund “to compensate and make ame...

New Labor Lawsuit: Activision Blizzard Accused Of Attempting To Prevent Its Employees From Exercising Their Rights

Spencer Baculi

September 21, 2021

Video Games

Amidst their ongoing legal battle concerning the widely publicized sexual harassment complaint filed against them earlier this year, a new and separately filed lawsuit has accused Activision Blizzard of having ...

Activision Appears To Advertise Anime-Themed Call of Duty DLC With Artwork Traced From Goblin Slayer And Japanese Artist Poppuqn

Spencer Baculi

September 1, 2021

Anime, Video Games

The hits just keep coming for Activision, as amidst a sexual harassment lawsuit and a storm of resulting personnel changes, the video game publisher has now been accused of plagiarizing both a frame from the op...

Blizzard Announces Various World of Warcraft Locations and NPCs Will Be Renamed In Wake Of California Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Spencer Baculi

August 31, 2021

Video Games

Activision Blizzard will rename various locations and NPCs featured in World of Warcraft following their decision to rename popular Overwatch gunslinger Jesse McCree. Source: World of Warcraft McCree was...

State of California Claims Activision Blizzard “Shredded” Documents Related To Sexual Harassment And Sex Discrimination Lawsuit

Spencer Baculi

August 27, 2021

Video Games

The California Department of Fair Employment & Housing has alleged that Activision Blizzard “shredded” numerous internal documents in an attempt to blunt the state government’s investigations pertaining to ...

Activision Blizzard Executive and Former Bush Admin ‘Torture Tactics’ Defender Frances Townsend Deletes Twitter Account

Spencer Baculi

August 6, 2021

Video Games

Activision Blizzard executive Frances Townsend, who prior to her time at the video game holding company infamously defended the US government’s ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ against enemy combatants in th...

Blizzard President J. Allen Brack Steps Down Amid Activision-Blizzard Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit

Spencer Baculi

August 6, 2021

Video Games

Amidst a storm of backlash sparked by the recently filed lawsuit which alleges that Activision-Blizzard had promoted a ‘frat boy’ workplace culture rife with sexual harassment, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack...

Activision Blizzard Employees Hold #ActiBlizzWalkout In Response To Recent ‘Frat Boy Workplace Culture’ Lawsuit

Spencer Baculi

July 28, 2021

Video Games

In response to the recent lawsuit filed against their employer by the State of California, which alleges that the company had promoted a ‘frat boy’ workplace culture rife with sexual harassment (to the point wh...

Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart Character Artist Reveals Writing Team Took Issue With Directors Over Rivet’s “Feminine” Appearance

Spencer Baculi

July 23, 2021

Video Games

In light of the recent news that Activision Blizzard has been hit with a lawsuit over their alleged fostering of a “frat boy” workplace culture, Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart character artist Xavier Coelho-Ko...

Activision Blizzard Hit With Lawsuit Over Alleged “Frat Boy Workplace Culture”, Including On-The-Job Alcohol Use And Rampant Sexual Harassment Of Female Employees

Spencer Baculi

July 22, 2021

Video Games

The hits keep coming for Activision Blizzard, as fresh off of a confirmed loss of millions of players from Blizzard’s products and rumors of World of Warcraft’s implosion, the Call of Duty and Overwatch publish...

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