Published on: 2025-06-08 12:04:00
Facepalm: Activision Blizzard has used the tried-and-tested "it was an error, honestly," excuse after it placed ads for purchasable items in the loadout screens of Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Their appearance led to a huge backlash, and now Activision is claiming they were a "feature test" published "in error," which nobody believes. Following the launch of Season 4 last week, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone players discovered the unwelcome sight of adverts for premium weapon bundles and ski
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Facepalm: Activision Blizzard has used the tried-and-tested "it was an error, honestly," excuse after it placed ads for purchasable items in the loadout screens of Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Their appearance led to a huge backlash, and now Activision is claiming they were a "feature test" published "in error," which nobody believes. Following the launch of Season 4 last week, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone players discovered the unwelcome sight of adverts for premium weapon bundles and ski
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The Federal Trade Commission has finally given up the ghost on challenging Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. "The Commission has determined that the public interest is best served by dismissing the administrative litigation in this case," the agency said in an order issued today. The federal regulator had attempted to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard both before and after the deal closed back in October 2023. The FTC just lost out on its latest appea
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Activision announced on the official X account of its Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile title that it would sunset updates and delist it from the Google Play store and the App Store. Activision is giving players a last chance to download the departing game, which will be removed by the end of today. According to Activision, Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile "has not met our expectations with mobile first players like it has with PC and console audiences." Considering the game's troubled launch, this disc
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Activision is starting to wind down Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile just over a year after its global launch. The game “has not met our expectations with mobile-first players like it has with PC and console audiences,” according to a post on X. The company will be pulling the game from the App Store and Google Play after Sunday, May 18th. Players who have installed the game befo
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The team of nearly 200 Activision Blizzard developers behind the Overwatch franchise has unionized. Formed under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild is the latest wall-to-wall Blizzard union to be recognized by parent company Microsoft since the World of Warcraft development team announced its own union last July. The CWA announced on Friday that “an overwhelming majority of workers have either signed a union authorization card or indicated that they want
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Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch team has formed a wall-to-wall union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union, which has been recognized by parent company Microsoft, includes nearly 200 developers "across all disciplines," from design and production to quality assurance, the CWA said in its announcement. It’s the latest development in a broader organizing effort by video game workers, who aim to secure better job protections and improve their working conditions. Last summer,
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost its appeal of a ruling in its case against Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In 2023, the FTC requested a preliminary injunction to prevent the companies from finalizing the deal while its legal challenge to the acquisition from 2022 was in progress. “With control of Activision’s content, Microsoft would
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Crash Bandicoot: Brawl and Call of Duty: Zombie Defender are not games that actually exist (yet), but social-media users on platforms such as Instagram are still seeing seemingly AI-generated ads from Activision, the company that owns those franchises. A representative for Activision didn't respond to a request for comment and has not commented publicly about the ads. Several gaming sites have pointed to examples that users have encountered. One, for example, features a new Guitar Hero Mobile
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After some teasing, Activision has revealed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4. It will release on July 11 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It’ll be available for Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass PC subscribers Preorders of the game give access to a demo in June featuring the iconic Foundry level from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and the Wireframe Tony Shader at launch. Preorders for the Digital Deluxe and Collector’s Editions give early access to the game on J
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Game maker Activision Blizzard confirmed that some of the visuals inside some of its most popular titles are generated by AI. The disclosure, which is listed on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's game page on Steam, follows the online gaming platform's recent introduction of new AI transparency policies. It comes at a time when gaming developers and publishers continue to determine AI's role in design and innovation while grappling with concerns over transparency, quality and job displacement. "Our te
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A hot potato: Activision has admitted what most people have suspected for years: it is using some AI-generated content in Call of Duty. It doesn't come as too much of a surprise given the evidence, which includes an image of a zombie Santa Claus in a loading screen with six fingers. It's a contentious issue, especially as Activision Blizzard laid off 1,900 employees in 2023. Claims that Activision was using AI began gaining popularity around the time of Modern Warfare 3. Wired reported last yea
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