It would appear at least some progress is being made regarding the sexual harassment complaints at Activision Blizzard. According to a report in the Financial Times, the company sent a letter to staff earlier today stating that it has fired 20 employees as a result of their own months-long investigation that uncovered “misconduct across several parts of the business”.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
Didn’t take long.
“Activision Blizzard May Have Found A Way To Wriggle Out Of California Lawsuit”
https://kotaku.com/activisi...
Just waiting for Fran and Bob to fire Fran and Bob...
40 scapegoats.
I doubt they are doing this with the staff safe in mind. Probably still people who should be fired. And other people that are fired who shouldn't. They're not worried about anyone but the money.
I guess my concern is whether you can even trust management to do this fairly and correctly. If you couldn't trust them with proper conduct in the workplace why would you entrust the power to take action over misconduct.
Seems pretty clear to me. They could continue misusing this power and instead of dealing with the serious issues they may just be looking for scapegoats.