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Money March 17, 2021

Bobby Kotick will receive a $200 million prize. A number of Activision Blizzard investors did not like this

While 50 Activision Blizzard employees are out of work, its CEO will receive a huge bonus. Bobby Kotick will be paid $200 million for the fact that the company’s shares continue to grow. However, a group of investors considers such payments excessive and wants to revise the amount of remuneration for the publisher’s management.Bobby Kotick can count on such an impressive bonus thanks to a clause in his contract called “Shareholder Value Creation Incentive”.

Money March 17, 2021

Overwolf has raised $52.5 million to develop a platform for creating and installing mods

Overwolf startup continues to develop its platform, which allows you to create and install mods and applications for games. Together with the launch of the new SDK, the company announced the attraction of investments in the amount of $52.5 million. She hopes to become a YouTube for modders.According to GamesBeat, the main investors in Round C were Griffin Gaming Partners and Insight Partners.

Industry March 17, 2021

Jade Raymond founded the independent studio Haven. It will create a new IP for PlayStation

After a series of failures at Google and EA, well-known producer and developer Jade Raymond announced the creation of an independent Haven studio. She will develop a new IP. Sony will finance the project.Jade Raymond told about this in the PlayStation blog.

HR March 17, 2021

Schreier: Activision is firing people. We can talk about the reduction of more than a hundred employees

Another wave of cuts in Activision Blizzard. On Tuesday, the company announced the dismissal of 50 employees involved in organizing esports tournaments and other offline events for Overwatch and Call of Duty. But journalist Jason Schreier talked to his own sources and said — in fact, there may be much more dismissed.