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Santa Monica-based game giant Activision Blizzard has appointe Dawn Ostroff to its board as an independent director effective immediately. The longtime entertainment executive currently oversees content and advertising at Spotify. Previously she co-founded and served as president of Condé Nast Entertainment through…

Riffing on the commonly cited social media-tech power-pack called FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google), one fund manager has fine tuned a new stock combo he’s calling DAWN as a solid bet during a collective Coronavirus-induced hunkering down. “It’s always darkest before the dawn,” Strategic Wealth Partners chief…

Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard said it is laying off several hundred workers — about 8% of its total workforce of 9,600 — in a restructuring that will also boost the number of game developers by 20% during 2019. Shares in the Santa Monica-based maker of Call of Duty gained 4% in after-hours trading following…

Netflix has named former Activision Blizzard CFO Spencer Neumann the company’s chief financial officer, succeeding David Wells. The announcement confirms a Reuters report that the streaming service had poached Neumann from video game publisher, where he held the same post. Neumann also held several senior positions at…

Some high profile executives in traditional sports including New York Mets’ Jeff Wilpon and the New England Patriots’ Robert Kraft are joining the eSports bandwagon: They’re among the group of seven people and entities that have bought city-based franchises for the new Overwatch League that Activision Blizzard has…

Ahead of the Season 2 premiere of Netflix’s Skylanders Academy, the animated comedy has been picked up for a third season. Production on the third season of Skylanders Academy — the first television series developed and produced by Activision Blizzard Studios—will begin in February for a launch in 2018. Season 2 will…

SAG-AFTRA has gone on strike against the video game industry. Just after midnight PT, the union ordered its members to stop working on games until the strike is over. Shortly before the clock struck midnight, a spokesman for the companies said no date has been set for the resumption of talks. It's the first-ever…

Skylanders Academy, the first project from video game giant Activision Blizzard’s in-house production outfit Activision Blizzard Studios, has found a home on Netflix with a two-season order. It will debut on the streaming service in the fall. The series was first announced in November 2015 along with the creation of…

Now that Activision Blizzard has announced its plan to launch a movie and TV studio, Hollywood might want to pay more attention to its hits — including today’s news regarding Call Of Duty: Black Ops III. In its first three days, the tentpole title generated $550 million in worldwide sales, the company says. That makes…

Hollywood already generates a lot of movies and TV shows based on video games. Now one of the biggest companies in the field will become more directly involved: Activision Blizzard just unveiled its own operation — Activision Blizzard Studios — that will develop films and TV shows based on its hit games including Call…

Call this a game-changer. Activision Blizzard, the company behind the juggernaut Call Of Duty and other huge video game franchises, is set to acquire Candy Crush maker King Digital for $5.9 billion — creating a new leader in the ever-expanding mobile gaming space. The combined entity will boast more than 500 million…

Normally, when you successfully release the latest iteration of a blockbuster franchise, it’s a good time to brag. Activision Blizzard says Call of Duty Advanced Warfare has had the year’s biggest launch of any entertainment property. That’s big. But what’s more interesting is what ATVI didn’t say, and how Wall Street…