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Employees At ‘Call Of Duty’ Developer Activision Establish U.S.’s Largest Certified Video Game Union

A group of roughly 600 Activision employees is unionizing with the Communications Workers of America.

Microsoft Is Laying Off 1,900 Video Game Workers, Mostly From Its Activision Blizzard Teams

The layoffs come three months after the company purchased Activision Blizzard for $69 billion.

Tech Giants Say That Users Of Their Software Should Be Held Responsible For AI Copyright Infringements

AI developers say it’s not their fault that their machine learning programs produce copyrighted material, even though they are the ones who trained their systems on copyrighted materials without permission.

Report: Disney Asked Microsoft To Prevent AI Users From Infringing Its Trademarks

The key issue: Microsoft’s AI image-creation tools were generating a Disney-Pixar logo.

Microsoft Closes Activision Blizzard Acquisition After Receiving U.K. Approval

Approval was granted after Microsoft agreed to sell Activision’s cloud streaming rights for all current and new titles to Ubisoft.

Communications Workers Of America Backs Microsoft/Activision Blizzard Merger, Says It Will Make Unionizing Easier

The CWA and Microsoft have a labor neutrality agreement that will affect Activision Blizzard workers after the merger is completed.

U.K. Blocks Microsoft’s $68.7B Acquisition Of Activision Blizzard

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority believes the acquisition could harm the cloud gaming marketplace.

Report: 2022 Was The Second-Best Year Ever For Gaming Investment, Mergers, and Acquisitions, And 2023 Could Be Even Better

After two strong years back-to-back, the gaming industry could be looking at a historic 2023 if Microsoft gets its way.

FTC Sues To Block Microsoft’s Acquisition Of ‘Call of Duty’ Developer Activision Blizzard

The gaming company develops billion-dollar franchises including ‘World of Warcraft,’ ‘Overwatch,’ and ‘Diablo.’

Activision Blizzard Won’t Voluntarily Acknowledge Unionization Effort At Its Subsidiary Raven Software

The workers at the “Call of Duty” developer are now taking their fight to the National Labor Relations Board.

Microsoft Agrees To Buy Activision Blizzard For $68.7 Billion

The tech giant will become the third-largest company in gaming, after China’s Tencent and Sony.

Microsoft Embraces Metaverse By Adding Animated Avatars To Teams

Welcome to the non-Meta metaverse.

What Happens When The Directors Of ‘Foodfight!’ And ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Make A Film Together? ‘Bobbleheads: The Movie’

This the film 2020 deserves.

Here’s The Biggest Animation News You Missed In September

Release date reshuffles, a “Lion King” sequel, a new studio from Don Bluth, and more…

Microsoft To Buy Video Game Titan Zenimax For $7.5 Billion

The deal represents Microsoft’s biggest video game acquisition to date.

Free Home Licenses And Software Deals For Work-From-Home Pros And Students (Updated)

Developers behind some of the industry’s most widely used softwares are making it easier to work from home.

Dell Targets Artists With The ‘Canvas,’ An Affordable 27-Inch Tablet Monitor

The Dell Canvas could challenge the Wacom Cintiq in the fast-growing tablet monitor market.

Moho Adds Features Directly For Microsoft’s Surface Studio and Surface Dial

Animation software Moho has added support for Microsoft’s Surface Studio and Surface Dial.

Microsoft’s Gorgeous Surface Studio Might Be A Cintiq Killer

Microsoft is edging into Apple and Wacom’s territory with its all-in-one touchscreen desktop Surface Studio.

Drawing Tablets Head-to-Head: iPad Pro/Pencil vs. Surface Pro vs. Wacom Cintiq Companion

What’s the right drawing tablet for you?

Another Animator-Friendly Tablet: Microsoft Unveils Surface Pro 4 Line

The tablet wars are heating up, and the winners are artists and animators.

Pixar Artists Test Drive The Apple Pencil — What Do They Think About It?

Will animation artists incorporate the new Apple Pencil stylus into their production workflows?

Microsoft Aims To Please Artists and Creators with Surface Pro 3 Tablet/PC

Yesterday in New York City, Microsoft unveiled the Surface Pro 3, the latest iteration of its fully-featured PC/tablet with pressure-sensitivity and an abililty to run any PC-based creative software from Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite to Toon Boom, Maya and ZBrush, to post-production filmmaker tools like Assimilate’s SCRATCH and RED’s CineX.

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