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Microsoft revealed today that it plans to bring a "selection" of games to Steam now that the major roadblocks in the way of their acquisition of Activision Blizzard are out of the way. The first game coming to Steam is Overwatch 2, and will be available starting August 10. A Battle.net account...

The Infinity Ward Twitter account teased this today. I assume this is a reimagining of the game to follow-up as a sequel to Modern Warfare (2019). https://nitter.net/InfinityWard/status/1519723165475389444

Activision Blizzard said the recently announced layoffs at the company may have a negative impact on its business. On page 12 of its SEC filing, the company warned investors that the job cuts may not have the desired effect of saving the company money as "there can be no assurance that our...

Activision Blizzard announced in an earnings calls that it was going to cut 8% of its workforce. The cuts will affect almost 800 employees primarily in sales and administrative duties as the company seeks to consolidate those departments. The company also announced that it will increase the...

According to reports, video game publisher Nexon is up for sale. Nexon founder Kim Jung-joo and his wife Yoo Jung-hyun are seeking to sell their 98.64% equity stake in the company. But the sale is complicated as NXC only own 47.98% of shares in Japan. "Nexon Korea is a wholly owned subsidiary of...

Activision Blizzard unceremoniously fired its chief financial officer (CFO) Spencer Neumann on Monday and Netflix hired him on Wednesday. His firing from Activision Blizzard was not due to bad performance, but because of his pursuit of another job. Netflix has been hemorrhaging money as it...