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Harvey Randall

Former Activision-Blizzard employee sues the company for none of the reasons you'd expect by now, accuses Bobby Kotick of saying it had 'too many old white guys'

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Activision-Blizzard has been the centre of a lot of controversy over these past few years. After a lawsuit went public, detailing "numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation" and a "frat boy" culture, plus claims from former CEO Bobby Kotick that the whole thing was just an "aggressive labour movement,"  the company finally settled last year.

While the civil rights suit concluded "there was no widespread harassment or recurring pattern or practice of gender harassment", Activision-Blizzard still paid $54 million to the California Civil Rights Department and set aside $47 million to impacted employees. Now a new suit has been filed by an ex-employee—for discriminating against old white men. Wait, hold on a second.

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