Blizzard Entertainment's new president is former Call of Duty and NFL executive Johanna Faries, the company announced today. She replaces Mike Ybarra, who left the company last week on the same day ...

What just happened? Microsoft is reportedly laying off 1,900 employees from its gaming division. The majority of the layoffs are at the recently-acquired game studio Activision Blizzard, although some ...

Since Microsoft acquired Blizzard in its Activision-Blizzard purchase a couple of years back, I found myself a tad worried about the future of BlizzCon. BlizzCon was an industry-leading convention ...

With Microsoft having released its Q3 2024 earnings results, the company also shared key metrics across a variety of areas. One of those areas was its Xbox Content and Services, which saw a ...

Bobby Kotick, the longtime CEO of video game powerhouse Activision Blizzard, will resign on Dec. 29. The move follows the company's acquisition by Microsoft, which closed in October for $68 billion ...

A former Activision Blizzard executive is suing the company for age discrimination, according to lawsuit filed on Jan. 2. James Reid Venable, a 57-year-old former senior director of business ...

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will leave the company on December 29 after 32 years, and remaining Activision Blizzard executives such as Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra, Activision ...

Microsoft spent a large chunk of time–and cash–acquiring new studios throughout the 2010s and 2020s, but its biggest move was the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023.

Microsoft is laying off around 1,900 employees in its gaming division just weeks after completing its $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard. Phil Spencer, the CEO of ...

We knew that Activision Blizzard’s longtime CEO, Bobby Kotick, would be stepping down at the end of this year following ...

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A hot potato: Activision has admitted what most people have suspected for years: it is using some AI-generated content in Call of Duty. It doesn't come as too much of a surprise given the evidence, ...