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Inside The Revolt That Led To Activision Blizzard Workers' Historic Unionization Push
9.12.2021
Several Call of Duty developers have revealed to Kotaku that Activision Blizzard’s internal unwillingness to directly respond to the recently announced Raven Software layoffs was what ultimately sparked the just-revealed, broader labor organizing effort at the troubled publisher. Read more
Activision Blizzard Devs Announce Work Stoppage And Strike Fund
9.12.2021
Employees at publishing giant Activision Blizzard, who formed the ABK Worker Alliance, have called on supporters today to donate to a strike fund. They have announced their intention to stop working, in protest of their management’s ongoing response to months of lawsuits and reports about...
Call Of Duty: Warzone Devs Stage Walkout Over Layoffs
6.12.2021
Quality assurance testers and other developers at Raven Software, the Activision studio in charge of the extremely lucrative free-to-play battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone, are walking out on the job today to protest surprise layoffs that were foisted on staff beginning last Friday. The group...
Call of Duty QA Testers Face Layoffs After Reportedly Being Promised Raises By Activision
4.12.2021
Today, contract testers at the Call of Duty studio Raven Software were told that the studio would face layoffs on January 28th of next year, a Call of Duty community manager said on Twitter. A source familiar with the goings-on at the company confirmed to Kotaku that for the next few days in early...
15 Years Later, Call of Duty Fan Gets Credit For Game-Changing Control Scheme
15.11.2021
In 2006, quadriplegic video game tester and streamer Randy Fitzgerald helped create “NOM4D,” a button layout for Call of Duty designed for disabled players. At the time, he says, he was told he’d be credited by name in the game, but that didn’t happen. All CoD titles since then have omitted...
Dear Metroid Dread: Samus Doesn’t Need To Be An Emotionless Robot To Be Badass
18.10.2021
Samus Aran.Read more
Twitch Takes Traffic Hit Following Streamer Boycott Over Harassment
2.9.2021
Yesterday, thousands of streamers abandoned Twitch for 24 hours in protest of its ongoing facilitation of harassment campaigns known as hate raids. While the Amazon-owned streaming platform has yet to implement proposed changes to the controversial raid system, it’s clear what some previously...
Twitch Streamers Are Boycotting The Site For A Day To Protest Hate Raids
23.8.2021
Next week, streamers plan to step away from Twitch for a day in an effort to combat how the platform continually lets it marginalized creators down.Read more
Activision Blizzard's Social Media Empire Has Been Silent For Days Now
24.7.2021
Social media accounts related to Activision Blizzard and its various properties have stopped posting following California’s lawsuit against the major video game conglomerate going public.Read more
Infamous 'Lost' Nintendo Mean Girls Game Now Fully Revealed
20.7.2021
In the late 2000s, 505 Games and Crush Digital Media planned to release a Nintendo DS game based on Mean Girls, the coming-of-age comedy starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams. However, there’s no proof that the game ever came out, leaving many expert DS observers to regard the game as “lost...
Call of Duty: Warzone Players Are Going Invisible Again Using Red Doors
19.7.2021
Glitches cycle in and out of Call of Duty: Warzone like stray cats through an abandoned house, but invisibility has caused players more headaches than most. And despite past fixes, Call of Duty’s battle royale players once again appear to be getting shot by opponents they can’t see, this time...
50,000 More Call Of Duty: Warzone Players Have Been Banned
17.7.2021
Call of Duty Warzone devs Raven Software confirmed yesterday afternoon that more than 50,000 players were banned in the last week across two waves of bans hitting the popular online shooter. Read more
Over 500,000 Cheaters Are Now Banned From Call Of Duty: Warzone
16.5.2021
Call of Duty Warzone developer Raven Software recently announced that over 30,000 new Warzone accounts were banned. According to the studio, that brings the total number of banned accounts to over half a million. Read more
Call Of Duty Warzone's Big Trucks Have Become A Popular (And Annoying) Way To Win
1.5.2021
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy.Read more
I Finally Played Quake 4 Last Week And Have Already Forgotten Most Of It
9.4.2021
Quake 4 has essentially been forgotten in 2021, and most folks are fine with that. Even id itself seems willing to let it rot away in some forgotten morgue, with the official Quake collection on Steam omitting Quake 4 entirely. But I was curious. Was Quake 4 really that bad? And if so, what went...
Warzone Is (Slowly) Teasing A Zombies Event
12.3.2021
With the arrival of Call of Duty’s Season 2 on February 25, zombies took the story spotlight. Black Ops Cold War got a great Zombies “Outbreak” mode, and Warzone’s Verdansk map got a ship full of the undead. Warzone is slowly being infected by the undead, leading up to a potential new mode...
Raven Announces World’s First IDO, Which Is Something Not Instigated By Binance, Binance Chain, Or Binance DEX
14.6.2019
The first project running on the Binance DEX launcher is Raven Protocol. (RAVEN)-The Raven protocol will be incorporated into the Binance DEX list on 17th June and is open for trade at 9:00 UTC.RAVEN reported that this would be the first venture in which IEO will be pitched on Binance DEX. Besides...
Raven Protocol Joins Binance Chain In Move To Exploit AI’s Full Potential
21.5.2019
The Raven Protocol team recently announced that they would be joining the Binance Chain. This partnership could be interesting as Raven protocol is geared towards exploiting AI’s full potential. Raven Protocol is joining the Binance Chain movement. This first batch of companies launching...