Tag: Employment Issues
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Reports Indicate Cancellation of Disco Elysium Expansion, Potential Redundancy for a Quarter of the Staff
The standalone expansion for Disco Elysium, codenamed X7, has been cancelled, with around 24 employees at the developer company ZA/UM facing potential redundancy, according to confidential sources. This development comes from a difficult decision made by ZA/UM CEO Ilmar Kompus to focus his team’s efforts on the remaining two games after the cancelling of X7.…
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Former Activision Blizzard executive sues, claiming he was dismissed due to being an ‘older white male’
James Reid Venable, a 57-year-old previous senior director of business operations, is currently suing his former employer Activision Blizzard for age discrimination. He alleges the company treated him unfairly after he complained about discrimination, claiming that he was laid off for being older and white. Furthermore, Venable has accused the former CEO, Bobby Kotick, of…