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Bobby Kotick has stepped down from Activision Blizzard. The gaming boss has been with the developers for more than 30 years but is now quitting the company altogether as he thanked staff, colleagues for all of their support over the years. In a company blog post, he wrote: " cannot adequately express the pride I have in the people who continue to contribute to our success and all those who have helped throughout my 32 years leading this company. We are now part of the world's most admired company. That isn't an accident. Following Microsoft's acquisition of the company, CEO Phil Spencer will s...
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Activision Blizzard will pay $54 million to settle their gender discrimination lawsuit. The games studio, which has produced fan-favourite titles, including ‘World of Warcraft’ ‘Diablo’ and ‘Overwatch’, was sued in July 2021 after it was alleged that female employees were subject to sexual harassment, lower salaries and unfair treatment in the workplace. In a statement to CNBC, an Activision spokesperson said: “We appreciate the importance of the issues addressed in this agreement and we are dedicated to fully implementing all the new obligations we have assumed as part of it.” The court has s...
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A federal judge has blocked a US regulator's attempt to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The Federal Trade Commission had been seeking an emergency block order as it believes that the tech giant purchasing the video game developer - which is vying to do so for $69 billion - would squash competition in the industry as it would hinder other brands like Sony from offering customers titles from their back catalogue like ‘Call of Duty’, ‘World of Warcraft’ and ‘Candy Crush,’ however, the court disagreed with this “assertion”. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley wrote in a ruling: "Th...
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick believes AI could help make 'Guitar Hero' even greater. The American businessman believes software such as ChatGPT will have a "profound positive impact" on game development, and he has a "vision" for a new game in the popular series, which sees players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead, bass guitar, and rhythm guitar to popular music. According to Kotaku, he said: “I don’t know how much people realise that a lot of modern-day AI, including ChatGPT, started with the idea of beating a game, whether it was Warcraft, or Dota, or Sta...
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'Candy Crush Saga' is adding a number of exciting in-game features and updates including 12 new audio tracks to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary. The Match-3 mobile game from King continues to be enjoyed by millions of people, and since it first became available to download in November 2012 it has amassed over three billion downloads, becoming the most downloaded casual match game of all time. The 12 new audio tracks which are being made available in-game were recorded with a live orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London, and the new music evokes an atmosphere that immerses players into ...
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'Candy Crush Saga' is adding a number of exciting in-game features and updates including 12 new audio tracks to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary. The Match-3 mobile game from King continues to be enjoyed by millions of people, and since it first became available to download in November 2012 it has amassed over three billion downloads, becoming the most downloaded casual match game of all time. The 12 new audio tracks which are being made available in-game were recorded with a live orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London, and the new music evokes an atmosphere that immerses players into ...
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Bobby Kotick, CEO of the massive game developer and publishing company Activision Blizzard, used a secret company to make donations to 2020 GOP campaigns to avoid public scrutiny. Kotick also used another LLC to donate to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick who is running in Pennsylvania this year. Federal Election Commission filings reportedly showed that Kotick’s company named Norgate LLC made two separate payments back in 2020 totaling $500,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund. The fund is a political action committee operated by people connected to Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and...
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