Video game giant Activision Blizzard will start laying off employees at its Irvine and Santa Monica locations next month as parent company Microsoft Corp. looks to cut costs in its gaming division.

Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, becoming the world's third-largest gaming company. Read about the video game maker's history.

In 2016, Universal and Activision Blizzard brought World of Warcraft to the big screen in Warcraft. The film only earned $47.4 million in the United States, but its worldwide total was $439.1 million.

Activision Blizzard is currently hiring for an unannounced game, and are looking for multiple senior staff to fill up the ranks on this project. This includes a creative director, design director ...

Read This: The Activision Blizzard downturn is a familiar tale of late capitalism An excerpt of Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, And Future Of Blizzard Entertainment details the sadly familiar story ...

After the FTC lost their court battle, Microsoft Corporation has claimed full ownership of game developer Activision Blizzard. The US Federal Trade Commission went to legal war against Microsoft ...

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is free of legal drama after the FTC lost its appeal against an earlier denial. Despite antitrust concerns, Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of ...

Microsoft Corp. and Activision Blizzard Inc. have charted a secondary course to merger approval in the Delaware Court of Chancery, asking the court directly to approve Microsoft's $68.7 billion ...

In May 2022, video game testers at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software subsidiary voted to form a union with Communications Workers of America — a first for a U.S.-based game company ...

What you need to know Over the past few weeks, many King employees had switched their LinkedIn profiles from King to Blizzard. We can reveal that Microsoft and Activision have formed a new smaller ...