' Harassment of any kind goes against everything we stand for as a studio. 'The stories and the pain that have been shared are simply devastating,' said Sledgehammer studio head Aaron Halon last week before previewing Call of Duty: Vanguard. Allen Brack, the head of Blizzard Entertainment, has also subsequently stepped down and was replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra as co-leaders of the studio. 'I am sorry that we did not provide the right empathy and understanding.' Women of color were 'particularly impacted,' the suit charges, and women employees were subject to constant sexual harassment including groping, comments and advances.Īctivision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick apologized after the company's initial response to the lawsuit led to an employee walkout. 'It is imperative that we acknowledge all perspectives and experiences and respect the feelings of those who have been mistreated in any way,' he said in a note to employees. The suit alleges the video game publisher paid women less than men, and fired or forced women to quit at higher frequencies than men. The game's reveal comes amid internal conflict at parent company Activision Blizzard, which faces a lawsuit filed last month by the state of California over sexual harassment and equal pay violations. ►Video games: Fortnite meets Among Us? New Impostors mode rolling out ►Oculus VR: Facebook's Horizon Workrooms wants to bring VR to the workplace Special operations forces such as SEAL Team Six grew out of Allied experiments with small squads chosen for specialized missions in World War II. In developing the single-player story campaign, Sledgehammer's creative team worked with historians including Marty Morgan, author of 'D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion' who served as technical director on the studio's 2017 game Call of Duty WWII.

5 for Microsoft Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, Sony PlayStation 5 and PS4, and PCs on ), you get to know – and fight as – four different characters who eventually team up as the first special forces squad for a mission against the Nazis in Berlin. Call of Duty is parachuting back into World War II.Ĭall of Duty: Vanguard, the next entry in Activision's multibillion-selling video game franchise, inserts players into many pivotal battles including the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Midway, and Operation Tonga on the eve of the D-Day invasion.

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