Don’t Blame ‘Fortnite’ for Activision-Blizzard’s Layoffs

In a year that’s already seen mass layoffs across multiple media brands, what happened yesterday at videogame publisher Activision-Blizzard somehow felt more like a reckoning. During an earnings call with investors, chief operating officer Coddy Johnson confirmed that despite “record revenues” in the fourth quarter of 2018, the company would lay off approximately 8 percent …

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