Report: Activision Took Years To Fire Someone Who Signed Emails ‘1-800-ALLCOCK’

A California lawsuit earlier this year alleged sexual harassment, discrimination, and a pervasive “frat boy culture” at Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard. At least in one instance, that culture included an employee signing all of his work emai…

Program Teaching Girls To Code Severs Ties To Activision Over Latest Allegations

Nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, which specializes in teaching computer science to young women and other marginalized groups, will no longer affiliate itself with Activision Blizzard, after the multibillion-dollar corporation came under fire yet …

Over 1200 Activision Blizzard Employees Sign Petition Demanding CEO Bobby Kotick Quit

The ABK Workers Alliance, a group of Activision Blizzard workers formed in response to the company’s treatment of its employees, began circulating a petition earlier today for anyone working at the publisher’s studios and offices to sign. It has now be…

Let’s Meet The Board Members Supporting Besieged Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick

Activision Blizzard has had a nightmarish 2021, with historic allegations of harassment causing enormous upheaval at the company, several high-profile lawsuits and the departure (or firings) of many key executives and developers. You would think that t…

PlayStation Boss Calls Out Activision Following Dire Kotick Revelations

As the wider gaming world reacts to yesterday’s latest wave of allegations against senior figures at Activision, including the reigning world champion of hubris-before-a-fall, CEO Bobby Kotick, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan expressed his disappointment at …

Bobby Kotick Actually Wrote Fran Townsend’s Deranged, Company-Wide Email

Earlier this year, an email was sent to all employees of Activision Blizzard from the email account of Chief Compliance Officer, former Executive Sponsor of the ABV Employee Women’s Network and former Torture Apologist Fran Townsend. Sent in the midst …

Calls For Bobby Kotick’s Resignation Intensify As Employees Stage Walkout [UPDATED]

Updated: 11/17/2021, 10:30 a.m. ET: A group of shareholders, led by union pension group the SOC Investment Group called for the resignation of Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick and the retirement of two other members of the board of directors: Brian…

Blizzard’s First Woman Co-Head Resigned Due To Being ‘Tokenized, Marginalized, And Discriminated Against’

Amongst the latest wave of troubling revelations to come out of Activision Blizzard, the Wall Street Journal reports that former exec Jennifer Oneal’s incredibly brief stint as co-head of Blizzard ended due to her being “tokenized, marginalized, and di…

Report: Activision’s Bobby Kotick Didn’t Just Know, He Also Mistreated Women

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick claimed to be in the dark about widespread allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination that surfaced at the company earlier this year, but according to a new bombshell report by The Wall Street Journal, Koti…