video game companies
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Hearing Over Microsoft’s Takeover of Activision Blizzard Begins, With Bigwigs Set to Testify
Over the course of 5 days, tech bigwigs like Bobby Kotick and Satya Nadella are expected to testify in favour of the contentious merger.
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12 Time-Looping Video Games You’ll Want to Play Over and Over
Groundhog Day-esque time loops are having a moment in video games. In the last year or so, two AAA games (Deathloop, Returnal) and one beloved critical-darling (Forgotten City) have used “time-repeating endlessly” as a central element. But in-game time loops go back to the very first video games. What is a video game, after all,…
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Microsoft to Swallow Activision Blizzard for $95 Billion
Microsoft is acquiring gaming giant Activision Blizzard in a deal worth just shy of $US69 billion (around $95 billion in Aussie terms) — which the Xbox owner says will allow it to gain access to hundreds of millions of gamers and position it as “the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony.”
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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 emails as “1-800-ALLCOCK.”