Xbox content and services revenue grew 61% thanks to the Activision Blizzard acquisition
Activision Blizzard accounted for 58% out of the 61% of Xbox's revenue growth this quarter.
Xbox Hardware Revenue Down 42% From Last Year as Activision Acquisition Continues to Boost Content Sales
Xbox hardware sales are way down again in Microsoft's Q4, while gaming content sales skyrocketed again thanks to the company's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard last year.
Activision Responds To Increase In Call Of Duty Cheating, Explains Why It Happened
After Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III came to Game Pass on July 24 with the Season 5 launch, fans quickly noticed an uptick in cheaters who spoiled the experience…
Activision Secretly Turned Off Skill-Based Matchmaking in Call of Duty as an Experiment; Players Hated It
According to a recent study by developer Activision, getting rid of Call of Duty's controversial skill-based matchmaking would be far, far worse for the game as a whole, and it's…
Activision report claims players don’t hate SBMM as much as they say they do
Skill-based matchmaking has long been a contentious subject in games like Call of Duty, but Activision found players don't play as much without it.
Call of Duty Players Overwhelmingly Prefer Skill-Based Matchmaking, Says Activision
Good matchmaking is critical to multiplayer-focused games like the Call of Duty franchise. That might seem like common sense, but we now have numbers to prove it. In a recent…
Activision Reportedly Sold an AI-Generated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Cosmetic
Activision reportedly sold an “AI-generated cosmetic” for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Game Pass Price Hike Criticized by FTC in Case Against Activision Merger
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has blasted Game Pass price hike in a new letter arguing against Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard. The FTC’s appeal against the merger is…
Crash Bandicoot Games on Sale as Activision Celebrates N. Sane Trilogy Milestone
Activision and Vicarious Visions launched the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy on PS4 in 2017, porting it to other platforms the following year. On Thursday, Activision announced that the game…
Activision Contractor Allegedly Laid Off QA Workers for Trying to Unionize
The Communications Workers of America announced it is filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against an Activision contractor. The union alleges that the contractor, Lionbridge Technologies, laid…