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Activision Blizzard Receives Another Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Activision Blizzard has received another sexual harassment lawsuit that also alleges sexual battery, failure to prevent harassment, gender discrimination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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KicksnSnares588d ago
z2g588d ago

ms needs to do some house cleaning if/when that deal goes through.

CobraKai588d ago

Reminds me that I need to do some actual house cleaning.

TheLordOfStuff588d ago

Or.. or.. hear me out..

You could also just sit down for a few more minutes and scroll through your phone 😉

CobraKai588d ago

@TheLordOfStuff
Hmmmmm. I like the way you think.

SyntheticForm588d ago

I just did that. Everything being done is so satisfying.

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GamingSinceForever588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

So this was consensual at first. Then she got the job there through him and suddenly wanted no parts of him. Then she reported him and he was fired.

So why exactly is she suing? Oh yes she wants $$$ to make her feel better.

It’s people like this that makes things harder for the real victims.

Tacoboto588d ago

Did you read the article?

Their relationship ended in 2011. Five years later he helped her get contract work, then four years later she became a full time employee in 2020. In 2020 or 2021, a decade after that relationship ended, is when he was "groping" her in the office and threatening her with decade old photos.

Good job misconstruing the entire context and timing. Yeah, he was fired, and she might be a bit opportunitistic, but don't lie about the timing to form your own narrative.

GamingSinceForever588d ago

A married woman leaning on an ex-boyfriend for work. On top of that she took a job working where he was at. Bruh she is for the streets and can’t be trusted.

I’m sorry my guy but case closed. She brought that shit into the company and doesn’t deserve a dime.

PapaBop588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

Most of these claims sound more like a case for a criminal investigation. Realistically what else could Activision have done? They investigated the claims and sacked him. Seems to me like she doesn't want justice just the money.

shinoff2183588d ago

@tacoboto

Not sure why you got the disagrees when you laid the facts out.

Tells me alot about some of you all.

Tacoboto588d ago

@GamingSinceForever

Because it's impossible for exes to be adults, five years to a decade later. What a disgusting opinion.

S2Killinit587d ago (Edited 587d ago )

@GameSinceForever
How is that proof of anything at all? So because she got a job through ex, she should have expected to be groped? Do you even listen to your own logic?

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DeathTouch588d ago

You know nothing about the case, yet you are already discrediting the victim as “fake” and/or “attention seeking”. You cause as much harm to real victims as people like that.

Crows90588d ago

Nope. He causes no harm. What power does he have to discredit anything. He has an opinion. Everyone does. His opinion or the opposite opinion cause no harm.

Sexual harassment needs criminal investigations. Until that's done there is no real justice and any action made before that is not justice.

Snookies12588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

Lol, and you are the exact opposite of that. You are 100% on her side, closing your eyes and ears to anything that might indicate any other possibility. I'm not saying she's guilty or innocent of anything. But the fact of the matter is. Women have the upper hand when it comes to ANYTHING related to sexual harassment. They can make something up entirely, and be believed in court without much evidence at all. If a woman sexually harasses a man, it's seen as laughable and that the man could do something about it before it got bad. Kind of insane how "justice" is served these days.

Is she money hungry? Maybe, maybe not. Was it wrong of the guy to do? Absolutely. But there have been far too many cases where men and women on both sides of the fence have been screwed over. Just because of a believable story and some half-decent acting. Especially when a nice chunk of money is involved. Suing someone wouldn't be the first thing on my mind though. It would be getting the person sent to prison, who wronged me.

DeathTouch588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

@Crows90 opinions cause no harm? You need to open a history book. Also, that is exactly what I mean: investigations are necessary. An accurate comment would be: “details sound fishy, I hope justice is served to however is the real victim here.”

@Snookies12 I never claimed any “side”. Don’t be a fool.

Killer2020UK588d ago

You deliberately left out the part that their relationship ended ten years prior to him groping and blackmailing her in the workplace.

The blackmail alone is illegal is it not?

Eonjay588d ago

It is but we live in a society where critical thinking is replaced with snappy one liners and people are completely unaware that most reactions they have are just programmed responses.

rippermcrip588d ago

She said him being fired wasn't enough because it needed to be more immediate. AB said he was fired within 10 days. Seems pretty immediate considering they have to investigate.

XxINFERNUSxX588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

She should have pepper sprayed him then kick him in the balls. At least that's what I would do. Still I'm shaking my head at all the shit bags that still support Blizzard, especially OW2, even though the game is free your still installing that cancer on your PC/console. The way I see it, you support them your just as bad as the assholes who harass the employees there.

PapaBop588d ago

How does me enjoying an Activision Blizzard game somehow mean I support sexual predators?

XxINFERNUSxX588d ago

Buying anything that has to do with Blizzard keeps the company going and the harassment will continue, again and again. I'm not supporting a company like Blizzard, they can burn in hell and go chapter 11, but since MS is buying them, that won't happen. As I see it MS doesn't care at all about what goes on at Blizzard, fuck them to.

anast587d ago

It doesn't, it just means that your enjoyment overcomes any other sh#$ that might be involved in making the product. I don't think this is "good" or "bad", it's entirely human.

SoulWarrior588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

I mean, I get what you're saying but that's just guilt by association effectively, if everybody adopted that logic almost every company in the world would be out of business and society as we know it would not exist, every company has some kind of issue like this unfortunately whether it's in the spotlight or not, but tarring everyone with the same brush who's not sharing your boycot isn't the best way to express it.

Crows90588d ago

He pretends to be innocent. As if he's never made a mistake before. Should everyone in his life so abandon him when he goes through a rough patch? Probably not.

Killer2020UK588d ago

Would it not be better to judge individuals on their actions rather than hold an entire corporation, their staff and the people who deal with them as equally accountable?

The way you see it seems to be a pretty broad application of very ill thought out logic.

Eonjay588d ago

I understand what your saying but that's not how it works. Both people are in contract with AB. In this contract they both agree to sell their work to AB. The two employees don't have a contract with each other. Only with AB.
Both employees sign a code of conduct with AB. It is ALWAYS AB's responsibility to make sure that the employees are abiding by their contract with AB. This is the only way to protect all parties.

How do we know this is the case? Simple, if one employee reports that they have been harmed while fulfilling their contract and AB fails to protect that person or forces them to repeatedly experience harm then AB has violated their contract with that employee.

Of course the second employee is the cause and ultimate blame but the work conditions you are to sell your services in must be protected by the employer. Otherwise if you are forced to break your contract with the employer you can sue them.

Crows90588d ago

Nope. Get off your high horse. There's sexual harassment or some other shady activity in the movie industry, games industry, phone industry and every industry and within every product line.

Hope you enjoy eating worms out of your backyard. Otherwise you support inhumane practices in the door industry as well. Or maybe you grow your own food which is ideal now anyways.

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Embracer Group Has Over 70 Projects in the Works

Embracer Group has released its latest financial statements, and while sales are up, some of the group's games haven't performed so well.

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OtterX4h ago

And they'll cancel 50 of them, then lay off their staff within the next couple of years. I think Embracer's new logo should be a Boa Constrictor.

Stonilein4h ago

i hope we get the next Tomb Raider soon

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Ubisoft say AC Shadows protagonists will be "romantically attracted to different types of people"

Ubisoft recently shared more details about Assassin's Creed Shadows protagonists, confirming that both of them will romantically attract and be attracted to different types of people.

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Hugodastrevas1d 6h ago

That should please everyone I'm sure...

RpgSama15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Feudal Japan DEI LGBTQ+ Samurai, sounds very accurate for the time period. Surely a decision made only with historical accuracy in mind.

Crows9015h ago

Or even modern day accuracy.....

Lexreborn215h ago

You have no idea what you are talking about, bet you didn’t know nobunaga was bi-sexual. Or ran maru his is often depicted as androgynous was a “beautiful boy”.

So yeah, feudal Japan had tons of lgbtq and kawaii enough… A BLACK SAMURAI! All without the need of offending a Caucasian because the world is diverse.

VenomUK14h ago(Edited 14h ago)

This story has cracked me up so much! Bravo Ubisoft, bravo! 🤣. So last week everyone was upset that in the long-awaited first Assassin’s Creed: Japan game the protagonist is black. But NOW he is also LGBTQ+ ! It’s like the Ubisoft creative team sat around a table and said “How can we best impress our Kotaku/IGN/Polygon friends and antagonise gamers? Let’s make it woke x 100!’ And then they all silent clapped!

Just you wait until the Star Wars: Outlaws details come out, there better not be anybody complaining about Kay Vess’ dating preferences and the gay droid armies.

Christopher13h ago

It actually is.

Japanese were very Greek in their sexual experiences.

lodossrage13h ago

Lexreborn2 is right

Go read up on Japan's feudal era homosexuality and bisexuality was a very common thing in that time.

I just have to laugh because the same people complaining about this are the same ones crying about wanting "historical accuracy". When it's clear most of the whiners don't even know history themselves.

Christopher12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Facts don't care about downvotes, btw. You either claim to understand historical accuracy or you just admit you don't like the stuff people did throughout history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

thorstein9h ago

Japan had no Christian stupidity about sexuality.

That's where your nonsensical puritanical view comes from: the Abraham's faiths.

It's feudal Japan, they don't believe in your religion's made up nonsense.

I mean, if you're going to embrace a particular viewpoint, you should at least be aware of where it comes from. Most of the world doesn't care about your ideals.

In those days, they certainly didn't care about your religion.

Get over yourself.

RpgSama8h ago

All of you guys missed the point, I even said I'm very sure they did it ONLY because they wanted to be historically accurate. Stop defending this, we all know why they did it and who they want to pander, it's not out newfound respect for history.

lodossrage7h ago

@RpgSama

Nobody is defending anything.

People are just pointing out the fact that after they just cried about the game not being historically accurate, when they SHOW they're accurate, they cry about it because they don't like certain parts of history

Not to mention you contradicted yourself RPGSama. You just pointed out you said they "ONLY because they wanted to be historically accurate". Then turn around and accuse them of pandering and/or having an agenda. Those two things are opposing statements

Cacabunga5h ago

Dumbest decision ever.. always online was a pass for me but now not even for free I’ll try it..

LordoftheCritics4h ago

It's made by Ubisoft Montreal.

Obviously we'll be allowed to bang anything that moves.

RiseNShine1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Yeha pretty sure.

H91h ago

People actually telling you that Japan had sexual deviancy which is correct however what's hilarious is that they will act as if it holds the same moral value that the LGBT community holds today, oh the things men used to say about themselves when they are attracted to other men, it's not empowering in the least bit

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CrimsonWing6916h ago

Geezus, just make a good game… holy sh*t this is becoming insufferable.

Crows9015h ago

Oh yeah!!!! What about being inclusive???

I'm sorry
..please replace the word inclusive with stupid.

notachance12h ago

If they truly aimed for inclusivity they’d make the protagonist an Ainu tribe, this is just Ubisoft getting comfy with Sweet Baby Inc as always.

Hofstaderman14h ago

You asking UbiSoft to make a good game? This is not 2002.

thorstein9h ago

I thought you crybabies wanted "historical accuracy." Now that your going to get it, you're going to cry more.

PRIMORDUS9h ago

It's past the point of retarded, everyone seems forced to do this bullshit now in games. 😑

Barlos3h ago

Hell no. A good game or film is secondary now to the agenda and the 'message'.

It's not enough to be simply entertained these days, there has to be an overarching real world narrative. I mean look at Dr Who as a recent example. Disney have completely destroyed it all in the name of 'diversity'.

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Hofstaderman14h ago

I take my hat off to you good sir. Brilliant.

Laskin14h ago

Thanks… I was originally going to write Samu-Bi but then I realized it was right there already so it works better

darthv7215h ago

Is that genuinely a selling point for people?

RpgSama15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

They sure as hell want to see if it is, time and time and time again.

VincentVanBro15h ago

You have to understand they’re incapable of writing a good story so this is the best they could come up with

thorstein9h ago

Well, after last weeks crying about historical accuracy. Now Ubi days, " Oh, okay, historical accuracy: here you go."

Now you're saying you don't want the accuracy? Can you guys just make up your minds?

notachance7h ago

Many entertainment medias do this nowadays because in an effort to boost the so called “EGS score”, investment companies such as Black Rock stipulated contracts that obligated fund recipient to conform to certain inclusivity standards, either by themselves or consulting with agencies like Sweet Baby Inc or Gaymerx.

notatallsurprisinggg7h ago

It's a genuine click-bait snippet to rile up people like you to push traffic.

Barlos3h ago

They can't help themselves. This path leads to failure. Every single time. But there's no stopping this ESG DEI train. If you don't buy it then the developers will say everyone is racist hompohobes. They will never, ever look inwards and admit that hey, we made a mistake, we gave people what we decided they wanted, not what they actually wanted. They'll blame the fans when it fails.

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Unannounced Valve 6v6 Shooter MOBA Footage Leaked

ESTNN writes: "A leak for Valve's 6v6 3rd-person shooter MOBA has supposedly been released ahead of time. And if the reports are true, fans of the genre have much to be excited for."

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Deadlock looks like bioshock and Moba had babies

JunonZanon15h ago

Valve really cannot count to 3.

Number1TailzFan14h ago

They should've had a new L4D like 10 years ago, it can be expanded upon a lot more but they just left it collecting dust.. it was a good game for its time but L4D2 doesn't have nearly enough content these days to keep players engaged, and it needs a serious graphics upgrade

mastershredder13h ago

Nice bend at the knee there Gabe. Seriously? A quirky character arena shooter? This late into the me-too-shooter market? I thought you guys were so much better than that crap. Gabe must need a bigger yacht.

kitano19476h ago

clown comment, valve are famous for letting their devs work on whatever they want as they have no share holders to please. hence why we rarely get games from valve but when we do they generally are great.

icefrog, the original modder who created dota on warcraft 3 is working on this with some other members at valve.