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Activision Blizzard Faces New Lawsuit: Former 14-Year Employee Alleges Severe Harassment, Assault, and Systemic HR Failures By Chris Kerr | Senior Editor, News, GameDeveloper.com Published: September 16, 2026 Estimated Read Time: 6 minutes Executive Overview The ghosts of Activision Blizzard’s cultural reckoning have returned to haunt the gaming titan. In a newly filed lawsuit in…

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The Cost of Creative Freedom: How the "Deprofessionalization" of the Video Game Industry Fuels Workplace Toxicity

By Bryant Francis, Senior Editor Boston, MA Executive Overview It is time to resurrect what has quickly become the most cursed industry buzzword of the mid-2020s: "deprofessionalization." First coined by analyst Simon Carless, popularized by marketing strategist Ryan Rigney, and continually inflicted upon the games industry by yours truly, the term describes a seismic structural…

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