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UPDATE 4: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/ftc-appeal-in-microsoft-activision-case-shows-us-regulator-isnt-giving-up-yet/ FTC appeal in Microsoft/Activision case shows US regulator isn’t giving up yet But stopping the deal from moving forward still looks like an uphill battle. BBC...

A listing for "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered" briefly appeared on the official PEGI website yesterday before quickly being taken down. Fortunately, media outlets like Charlie Intel managed to capture screenshots before PEGI killed the seemingly erroneous listing, which had a...

After a 4 month absence, loot boxes have finally come to Black Ops 4, and players couldn't be happier... Just kidding. Call of Duty fans in the game's subreddits and other communities aren't pleased with the new microtransaction changes, to say the least, and Eurogamer's writeup on the system...

Bungie has announced that it is in the early stages of becoming a self-publisher of its own games. It is relieving Activision of these duties after 8 years of partnership. The rights to Destiny will be transferred from Activision to Bungie, but the transition deal is in its early stages. Chinese...

Just a few days after Activision lost their CFO to Netflix, gamesindustry.biz reports that Square Inc. poached Amrita Ahuja from Blizzard Entertainment. Amrita reportedly worked at Blizzard for 8 years, and Square's CEO gave some typical corporate praise to their new CFO, calling Ahuja an...

Activision-Blizzard's stock hasn't been performing particularly well, even when compared to the overall market slump late last year. Right now, it's sitting at about 43 dollars a share, compared to 83 in late September. So, one might think that the firing of Activision's CFO, Spencer Neumann...

Blizzard Entertainment is offering cash incentives equal a full year's pay to its customer service employees in Ireland to voluntarily quit their jobs. This is the fifth time that Blizzard has enriched the cash payout to employees. Remaining employees say that the loss of 100 associates has...

These last two months have been pretty hard on stock market in general, but Activision-Blizzard seems to be faring worse than everyone else. Their stock price has plummeted from a high of about $83.3 in October to about $53 right now. For a company as large as Activision-Blizzard, that's bad...

The launch of Destiny 2 was very lackluster and the first two expansions didn't fix the issues that customers complained about. Frustrated players had become wary of paying $40 for the 3rd expansion called Destiny 2: Forsaken. Bungie has seen the writing on the wall and made the decision to...

Following a beta test last month, the full version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 came out at midnight last night. The new game ditches the single player campaign previous Call of Duty titles had, and in exchange, gets a battle royale mode as well as a more story-like zombie mode. Treyarch...

Blizzard has lowered the banhammer on third party data-tracking tools in the esports game Overwatch. These tools supposedly only allowed users to see extra statistics, but Blizzard stated otherwise in a forum post. "To provide more clarity, any third-party application that impedes on the...

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has a release date of March 22, 2019. Here is the new announcement trailer from the Tokyo Game Show. The Tokyo Game Show event is scheduled from Wednesday, September 19 - Sunday, September 23 2018. Wolf of arm, armor of Sengoku. From software and Activision's tags...

Activision just released a trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's "Blackout" battle royale mode. My insider sources tell me that this is the 15th official Call of Duty game, not including 7 mobile releases and various DLC, but Black Ops 4 is the first one to feature a battle royale mode...

In their quarterly earnings report for Q1 2017 yesterday evening, Activision-Blizzard announced a record quarter with $1.7B in revenues. A large part of this success has been credited towards Overwatch which has generated more than $1B in revenues and attracted over 30 million registered...

More details have been released on the upcoming title Call of Duty: WWII with a livestream containing not only the previously mentioned reveal trailer, but hosting an interview session from London. Highlighted with development information from Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg, and Sledgehammer...

In quietly hosting a countdown timer leading to a full reveal, Activision has announced its newest iteration of the Call of Duty series - Call of Duty: WWII. A livestream event will coincide the countdown’s conclusion on April 26th, likely revealing gameplay videos and a release date. Not many...