California sues Activision Blizzard over a culture of ‘constant sexual harassment’

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California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) says that renowned game publishing studio Blizzard Entertainment, and its owner Activision Blizzard, have created a culture of “constant sexual harassment” and gender-based discrimination, in a new lawsuit filed Tuesday that claims top executives were aware and/or involved — and in the hours since the suit was revealed, numerous women have already stepped forward to corroborate the allegations.

The details are so disturbing that we’re going to start with a trigger warning right now. Plaintiffs claim that one employee committed suicide after extreme forms of sexual harassment. The idea that male employees held “cube crawls” is one of the tamer allegations in the lawsuit:

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