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Activision Blizzard has just published their latest quarterly financial report which offers some interesting bits of information about how the company is doing. The Q1 2021 report shows a 7% increase in Blizzard’s revenue year-over-year but also a significant drop in player numbers. Blizzard’s playerbase has taken another big hit, dropping by 27% over the past three years according to [...]

The mass layoffs at Activision Blizzard continues this week with confirmation from the company that they will be closing down their publishing offices in Europe. An undisclosed number of employees from France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, and the UK will be affected by the closures. The move is part of the company’s recent restructuring in response to the current marketing trends [...]

Activision Blizzard employees have just experienced another round of layoffs across various departments. According to a report by Bloomberg, less than 2% of the company’s total workforce was affected which equates to fewer than 190 employees, with 50 of them working in departments related to e-Sports and live events. The dismissals are part of the company’s plans to shift away [...]

Activision-Blizzard’s recently-concluded Q4 2020 investor call is chock-full of surprise reveals. Aside from new Warcraft mobile spin-offs, the studio is apparently working on a new premium Call of Duty game that’s scheduled to come out on PC and consoles in Q4 2021. According to VG24/7, the studio confirmed that the upcoming title will also tie into Warzone, much like Black [...]

After shutting down their Versailles, France office last month, Activision Blizzard is once again laying off a number of its employees, this time in the Asia-Pacific region. According to MCV/DEVELOP UK, around 30 staff members in the region will be affected by the company's efforts to reduce redundancy, specifically those working in marketing, publishing, and press relations. “We’ve been exploring [...]

Following Activision Blizzard's mass layoffs last year, the company is now shutting down its office in Versailles, France. According to Bloomberg, the French studio employed around 400 people before the layoffs whose jobs included customer support, marketing, and game localization for the European market. “Over the past year we have been exploring how we might best integrate our capabilities across [...]

In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced most companies around the world to a standstill, game development studios continue to thrive thanks to the digital nature of the gaming industry. One of these studios is Activision Blizzard whose CEO, Bobby Kotick, assures gamers that their 2020 projects are still on track for release. “As of now, we're on [...]

With everyone staying indoors thanks to the Coronavirus quarantines, no one should be surprised that Activision Blizzard reported strong earnings in the first 3 months of the year. Revenue for the quarter which ended on March 31, 2020 came in at $1.79B, which beat the company's own projections by over $100M. World of Warcraft, despite DOUBLING in monthly active users [...]