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Report: Facebook COO threatened Daily Mail to drop negative Kotick story News Apr 22nd, 2022

Report: Facebook COO threatened Daily Mail to drop negative Kotick story

These relate to an ex-girlfriend of the Activision Blizzard boss filing a restraining order against him

Activision Blizzard investor class action suit dismissed News Apr 21st, 2022

Activision Blizzard investor class action suit dismissed

Judge claims that the firm could not have predicted the negative outcome

Activision Blizzard settles $18m suit with EEOC News Mar 30th, 2022

Activision Blizzard settles $18m suit with EEOC

And not everyone is happy about this

Activision Blizzard EEOC $18m settlement could be approved shortly News Mar 24th, 2022

Activision Blizzard EEOC $18m settlement could be approved shortly

Final hearing to be held on March 29th

Activision suing COD cheat provider News Jan 6th, 2022

Activision suing COD cheat provider

Firm taking EngineOwning to court for making a variety of exploits for Call of Duty games

Riot reaches $100m settlement in gender discrimination case News Jan 4th, 2022

Riot reaches $100m settlement in gender discrimination case

Though it's still pending court approval

CD Projekt settles Cyberpunk 2077 investor suit for $1.85m News Dec 17th, 2021

CD Projekt settles Cyberpunk 2077 investor suit for $1.85m

Mostly because it would have been expensive and long to continue fighting the case

Judge stops DFEH intervention into Activision Blizzard EEOC lawsuit News Dec 15th, 2021

Judge stops DFEH intervention into Activision Blizzard EEOC lawsuit

But the $18 million settlement is yet to be approved

Judge dismisses Wolfire's antitrust lawsuit against Valve News Nov 22nd, 2021

Judge dismisses Wolfire's antitrust lawsuit against Valve

Case dismissed without prejudice, meaning that the studio can file an amended complaint

Bungie vet O'Donnell found in contempt of court over Destiny music News Sep 20th, 2021

Bungie vet O'Donnell found in contempt of court over Destiny music

Composer violated 2015 injunction that said he couldn't share or perform his work from the title

Report: Streamer Dr Disrespect is suing Twitch over ban News Aug 26th, 2021

Report: Streamer Dr Disrespect is suing Twitch over ban

The personality was booted from the platform back in June 2020

Blizzard president Brack is leaving the company Job News Aug 4th, 2021

Blizzard president Brack is leaving the company

Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra take up co-leader positions

Valve files motion to dismiss Steam competition lawsuit News Aug 2nd, 2021

Valve files motion to dismiss Steam competition lawsuit

PC giant says that Wolfire Games has failed to allege the kind of conduct it is being accused of

Report: Epic will have lost almost $600m on Epic Games Store by end of 2021 News Apr 12th, 2021

Report: Epic will have lost almost $600m on Epic Games Store by end of 2021

Fortnite firm says that the platform will be profitable by 2023; Apple reckons it's more like 2027

Google facing class-action lawsuit for Stadia 4K claims News Feb 24th, 2021

Google facing class-action lawsuit for Stadia 4K claims

Case claims the search giant misled consumers

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