Many Overwatch casters are now refraining from referring to McCree by his name, following the character namesake's involvement in the recent lawsuit.
Blizzard Entertainment confirms the people in question have been let go, with the company currently in the midst of a lawsuit over discrimination and harassment allegations.
A law suit filed by Rosen Law Firm on behalf of the company's investors, with allegations that the company failed to disclose issues with discrimination and harassment.
"There is no place at our company where discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind will be tolerated," Bobby Kotick says.
Brack will be replaced effective immediately by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, who will be co-leaders of the company.
"Our initial responses to the issues we face together, and to your concerns, were, quite frankly, tone deaf," says CEO Bobby Kotick.
A group of Activision Blizzard employees will be staging a formal walkout protest on Wednesday to call for steps to be taken against widespread discrimination against and sexual harassment of employee...
"To put it clearly and unequivocally, our values as employees are not accurately reflected in the words and actions of our leadership," the letter states,
Blizzard is scheduled to release new titles next year though.
That's a lot of the green stuff.
A number of big publishers will have a digital presence at this year's Gamescom.
"We are hard at work on high quality mobile games for all of our most important franchise," Bobby Kotick confirms.
Everyone wants to rule the world.
Support for the "existing game" will still continue, as per Blizzard's J. Allen Brack.
People will have to ask Activision Blizzard for an "exact launch timetable", however.
Bobby Kotick’s leadership is provoking cries of outrage among many.
Not owning the IP was also a factor in the Activision-Bungie split.
Publisher accepts "significant addition of development resources" to accelerate delivery pace over time.
Activision will offer “comprehensive severance packages” to affected employees, however.
