Activision Blizzard settles historic sexual harassment suit for $54 million, sets aside another $47 million for impacted employees

First reported by the New York Times, a major chapter in Activision Blizzard’s reckoning over an alleged internal culture of misogyny and harassment has ended. The California Civil Rights Department (formerly the Department of Fair Employment and Housing) has settled with Activision Blizzard for $54 million, dropping its sexual harassment suit. In addition to the…

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The original Fallout’s pacifist playthrough was an ‘accidental’ inclusion, but its designers loved the idea so much they kept it in

Long time RPG developer Tim Cain (Fallout, The Outer Worlds, Troika Games) has revealed another surprising fact about the Fallout series via his excellent YouTube channel. The games are known for their open-ended RPG gameplay and allowing player freedom, but according to Cain, one of their hallmarks, the so-called pacifist run where you don’t directly…

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