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Blizzard updates: 9,000 flights canceled and thousands left without power as winter storm pummels the Northeast

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Post date February 23, 2026

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Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game

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Post date July 2, 2025

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Inside the history of Activision Blizzard, the video game maker Microsoft bought for $69 billion

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Post date January 7, 2025

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Microsoft’s Midnight Blizzard source code breach also impacted federal agencies

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Post date July 4, 2024

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Microsoft now says the CMA was ‘tough and fair’ over Activision Blizzard deal

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Post date January 2, 2024

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California settles Activision Blizzard gender discrimination lawsuit for $54 million

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 15, 2023

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Activision Blizzard had a plan — or ploy — to launch its own Android game store

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 29, 2023

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks AI, closing the Activision Blizzard deal, and his best business decision so far

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 22, 2023

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Microsoft is set to buy Activision Blizzard in a $69 billion deal

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 13, 2023

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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators

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Post date October 13, 2023

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Microsoft could buy Activision Blizzard by the end of the week. Here’s what that means for ‘Call of Duty.’

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 8, 2023

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Microsoft eyes closing its giant Activision Blizzard deal next week

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 6, 2023

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Blizzard devs know their Diablo IV patch was bad

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Post date July 23, 2023

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Court denies FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard

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Post date July 14, 2023

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Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, judge rules

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Post date June 13, 2023

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Microsoft is facing another hurdle in closing a $70 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard: a new FTC lawsuit

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 12, 2023

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FTC files to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard

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Post date June 12, 2023

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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal heads to a summer showdown with regulators

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Post date May 30, 2023

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Read Microsoft’s response to the FTC’s Activision Blizzard lawsuit

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Post date December 23, 2022

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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard: the latest news on the acquisition

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 22, 2022

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Blizzard will suspend World of Warcraft in China because of licensing dispute

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Post date November 16, 2022

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Blizzard will be taking Overwatch 2 offline again

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Post date October 7, 2022

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Blizzard gives most Overwatch 1 players a pass on verifying phone numbers to play Overwatch 2

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Post date October 6, 2022

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Activision Blizzard employees walk out again, this time for reproductive protections

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Post date July 21, 2022

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Blizzard will bring back BlizzCon in 2023

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Post date July 6, 2022

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Blizzard hires a vice president of culture to fix its culture

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Post date May 5, 2022

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Activision Blizzard confirms vaccine mandate is over, employees will walk out April 4th

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Post date April 1, 2022

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Activision Blizzard hit with another sexual harassment lawsuit

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Post date March 24, 2022

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Activision Blizzard sued over claims sexual harassment contributed to employee’s death

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Post date March 6, 2022

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Activision Blizzard halts new sales of games in Russia

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Post date March 5, 2022

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Read exactly how Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard came together

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 18, 2022

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sold up to $15,000 worth of Activision Blizzard stock on the day Microsoft announced plans to buy the video game company

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 21, 2022

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Blizzard boss details what the studio is doing to ‘rebuild your trust’

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Post date January 20, 2022

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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick set to receive almost $400 million windfall payout from Microsoft sale after taking a massive pay cut last year amid company scandal

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Post date January 19, 2022

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Over 30 Activision Blizzard employees have ‘exited’ since July, WSJ reports

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Post date January 17, 2022

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California appeals decision regarding Activision Blizzard settlement

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Post date January 8, 2022

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Activision Blizzard won’t play a part at The Game Awards this year

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 4, 2021

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Call of Duty made $3 billion in 2020, so of course Activision Blizzard is laying off QA

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 3, 2021

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Battle.net has recovered from DDoS attack, Blizzard says

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Post date November 24, 2021

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Bobby Kotick is still the CEO of Activision Blizzard, for now

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 21, 2021

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Over 500 Activision Blizzard employees petition to remove CEO Bobby Kotick

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 18, 2021

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Blizzard will ‘pause’ plans for an online BlizzCon event in 2022

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Post date October 26, 2021

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Activision Blizzard is trying to get the discrimination suit thrown out of court

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 19, 2021

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Now the SEC is investigating Activision Blizzard too

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 21, 2021

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Blizzard to change name of Overwatch’s McCree following sexual harassment lawsuit

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Post date August 26, 2021

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California accuses Activision Blizzard of ‘withholding and suppressing evidence’

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 24, 2021

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Three more high-profile Blizzard employees are no longer at the company, including Diablo 4’s director

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 11, 2021

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Activision Blizzard shareholder says company’s response doesn’t ‘go nearly far enough’

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Post date August 10, 2021

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Here are the latest accusations Activision Blizzard employees have leveled at the company

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Post date July 30, 2021

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‘Cube Crawls’ and ‘Frat Bro’ Culture: California’s Huge Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Alleges Yet Another Toxic Workplace in the Video Game Industry

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 30, 2021

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Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s letter addressing the harassment allegations

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Post date July 28, 2021

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Activision Blizzard Staff Sign Petition Supporting Labor Lawsuit

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Post date July 26, 2021

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Blizzard exec calls sexual harassment allegations ‘extremely troubling’

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Post date July 25, 2021

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California sues Activision Blizzard over a culture of ‘constant sexual harassment’

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 22, 2021

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Tencent taps Blizzard veterans to make ‘the next great PC RTS’

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Post date June 30, 2021

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Blizzard shows off Overwatch 2’s new 5 vs. 5 multiplayer and a trio of maps

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Post date May 21, 2021

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Top Video Game Stocks To Watch After Activision Blizzard Beat Estimates

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 5, 2021

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake studio will now focus exclusively on Blizzard games

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Post date January 23, 2021

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StarCraft II turns 10 this year, and Blizzard is celebrating with an anniversary update for the game

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 23, 2020

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Activision Blizzard exec leaks that Overwatch might become a TV series

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Post date February 18, 2020

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Blizzard moves previously canceled Overwatch League games from China to Korea

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Post date February 15, 2020

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You can blame Nvidia, not just Activision Blizzard, for their GeForce Now falling-out

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Post date February 14, 2020

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Blizzard lost a big sponsor after the Hong Kong outcry: Mitsubishi

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Post date October 29, 2019

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Gamers for Freedom is a new group pressuring Blizzard and other publishers about Hong Kong

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 24, 2019

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Blizzard denies reports that it’s banning Twitch viewers for pro-Hong Kong chat

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 21, 2019

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What to Know About Blizzard, Hong Kong and the Controversy Over Politics in Esports

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 20, 2019

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Blizzard is banning people in its Hearthstone Twitch chat for pro-Hong Kong statements

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Post date October 19, 2019

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Blizzard breaks its silence on controversial suspension of pro Hong Kong Hearthstone player

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Post date October 11, 2019

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Blizzard says its ‘relationships in China had no influence on our decision’ to punish an esports athlete who voiced his support for Hong Kong protestors

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Post date October 11, 2019

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Blizzard has wanted to port Overwatch since ‘literally the day the Switch came out’

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Post date October 3, 2019

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Blizzard conditions and strong winds have left hundreds of thousands of people without power in the Midwest

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Post date February 25, 2019

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Nearly 6,000 flights canceled as major blizzard slams Northeast

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Post date March 14, 2017

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