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In response to how management has handled the blowback since a California agency brought a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard alleging, among other things, sexual discrimination and harassment at the company, employees of the gaming giant are staging a walkout on Wednesday in protest.
In a recent development, it seems the current class-action lawsuit against Chronicles of Elyria developer SoulBound Studios has been transferred to the Western District of Washington.
The latest Guild Gathering community question for Ashes of Creation has arrived. This one is all about something we’re all familiar with: conflict resolution.
There have been more developments in the Activision Blizzard lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and worse. A new report cites an internal all-hands call of sorts in which executives claimed they, "have never seen this" behavior.
In a letter sent to management today, over 1000 current Activision Blizzard employees have strongly denounced the company’s public response to the current ongoing lawsuit against the studio. The letter, which was sent to gaming news site Kotaku, has employees of the gaming giant call the response to the allegations the studio fostered an environment which allowed sexual discrimination to flourish "insulting."
RuneScape’s ongoing Elder God Wars story arc will be getting a new addition today as The Nodon Front chapter comes to the long-standing MMORPG. The new chapter will players ultimately take on Kerapac, the general of RuneScape’s Nodon Dragonkin, as well as reap rewards such as the first ever Tier 95 weapon, the Staff of Armadyl.
In response to the allegations by a California agency of a pervasive ‘frat boy culture’ allowed to flourish at gaming giant Activision Blizzard, work has effectively stopped on the company’s largest title, World of Warcraft, according to Senior System Designer Jeff Hamilton. Meanwhile, since the news broke a multitude of former and current Activision Blizzard employees have come out with stories of their own, denouncing the culture and the response to the lawsuit by Activision Blizzard itself.
People Can Fly, the team behind Outriders, has taken to Reddit to discuss future patch news, upcoming fixes, and more.
Elyon, the MMORPG formerly known as Ascent: Infinite Realm, will be hitting digital shelves here in the West on September 29th.
New World has been trucking along since its closed beta hit Steam back on July 20th. Within a week the MMO has already seen over 200K players jump in at the same time, breaking that threshold on Sunday. This bodes pretty well for Amazon’s MMO, and signals that this could end up being the studios’ first successful game.