Acti-Blizz Wanted To Buy PC Gamer & Kotaku

The fallout from the announcement that the company that owns the Fallout franchise now will be buying Activision-Blizzard|King is still reeling throughout the gaming sphere. Some like the idea with the talk of Kotick getting the boot by the time the acquisition is complete, others are…

WoW’s 17th Anniversary Event is Here

Well, folks, it’s mid-November again, and that can only mean one thing: another year has passed since the fantastical realm we know as Azeroth made its presence known the world over. Yes indeed, World of Warcraft’s seventeenth-anniversary event is now upon us.…

BlizzCon 2022 is Now “On Pause”

I present to you a massive understatement: Activision-Blizzard is most assuredly not having a good time of things right now. If you’re somehow unaware of everything that’s happened (and is still in the process of happening) at their corporate headquarters over the…

Activision-Blizzard Settles Federal Case

I will attempt to spare the entire history of Activision-Blizzard in their recent legal troubles with not only state officials in California and more recently, federal cases. The latter seems to be pilling up. As of Monday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)…

Overwatch 2 Exec Leaves Blizzard

I won’t run down the entire recent history of Activision-Blizzard’s woes today. I did a majority of that yesterday when CEO Bobby Kotick and several other executives were subpoenaed in a federal investigation. However, I will repeat that it has not been…