Read exactly how Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard came together

There were nearly two months of negotiations.

Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Acquisition Won’t Save the Games Industry

Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard will make things worse for game workers — and entrench some of the most dystopian trends in video games.

Deja Vu All Over Again: Microsoft, Sony Making Vague Statements About Exclusivity In Activision Titles

And here we go again. When Microsoft acquired Zenimax/Bethesda last year, the first question that leapt to most people's minds was whether or not Microsoft would wall off long-running franchises from Bethesda with exclusivity to Xbox and/or PC...

Days After Microsoft Deal, Workers at Activision Blizzard-Owned Developer Announce Union

The worker group, called Game Workers Alliance Union, is the first to form a union within the video game holding company, which has faced claims of a toxic work culture.

iTWire - Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard for $US 70b

Microsoft made big news when it bought Minecraft and when it bought Bethesda, but today’s news is a deal 10 times that. Microsoft has now announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for an eye-watering $US 70 billion. It makes Microsoft the...

Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard

The gaming company has been dealing with a wave of harassment accusations.

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”

Microsoft has come under repeated scrutiny for alleged breaches of the FCPA

Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard in $68.7 bln deal

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it would buy "Call of Duty"videogame maker Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in cash, the largest deal in the sector making the Xbox maker the third-largest gaming company by revenue.

Activision Blizzard Management are Scum: Abuse People, Promise Better, Then Lay off Staff (Update: Statement from Activision)

In yet another move of pure inhumanity, Activision Blizzard laid off people working on a game earning billions AFTER promising contracts and raises.

As lawsuits pile up, Blizzard loses its chief legal officer

Hart is the latest in a string of high-profile departures

California accuses Activision Blizzard of ‘withholding and suppressing evidence’

There’s also accusations that HR employees shredded docs

CCO Of Activision Blizzard Busy Blocking Everyone, Including Employees, On Twitter Amid Fair Employment Lawsuit

Good public relations, when mired in a controversy, isn't always easy, but it does tend to be quite simple. If you have a controversy on your hands, be direct, be honest, be transparent, do not attempt to paper over the controversy with other...

exhausted lizard (@tessaracht@kitty.town)

Activision-Blizzard has hired one of the foremost union busting firms to "manage" their employees' concerns. it didn't even take them a week. https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale

Activision, Facing Internal Turmoil, Grapples With #MeToo Reckoning

More than 1,500 employees for the video game giant, which is facing an explosive state lawsuit, have called for executives to take sexual harassment seriously.