Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
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Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

Microsoft has made their biggest purchase ever. In the midst of Activision Blizzard’s decline, the company’s future looked very murky. Many media and important people in the industry announced a possible bankruptcy of the company in the not too distant future due to the number of problems piling up in recent years. Microsoft has not…

Video games should not try to avoid politics
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Video games should not try to avoid politics

In a recent interview with CNBC anchor Becky Quick, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick explained that he doesn’t view the company’s role as being “the operator of the world’s town halls” and that his role as CEO “doesn’t convey to me the right to have a platform for a lot of political views.” The response –…