Enlarge / A statuette from The Game Awards. (credit: The Sport Awards )
Activision Blizzard will “not be part” of next week’s annual Game Awards broadcast beyond its nominations, award host and creator Geoff Keighley said in a Twitter thread Friday night .
Keighley’s post comes after the more non-committal statement on Activision’s participation published in The Washington Post Friday morning . “We want to support employees and developers” Keighley told the Post before adding “we have to think very carefully about how to proceed here. ”
That statement drew widespread condemnation among industry members and watchers on social media in light of ongoing lawsuits and investigations surrounding widespread reports of employee harassment and gender inequity issues .
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