A damning Kotaku report has today detailed a BlizzCon hotel room dubbed as the “Cosby Suite” on the very same day Activision Blizzard employees have walked out of their jobs in protest of alleged discrimination and harrassment of women.
According to Kotaku’s report, the “Cosby Suite” was the alleged nickname of Alex Afrasiabi, one of only two people specifically named in a lawsuit filed by the Californian Department of Fair Employment and Housing. The other named party is none other than former Blizzard President J. Allen Brack.
“During a company event (an annual convention called Blizz Con [sic]) Afrasiabi would hit on female employees, telling him [sic] he wanted to marry them, attempting to kiss them, and putting his arms around them,” a portion of the lawsuit reads. “This was in plain view of other male employees, including supervisors, who had to intervene and pull him off female employees. Afrasiabi was so known to engage in harassment of females that his suit
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The official World of Warcraft Twitter account has announced that it will take immediate action to remove references that are not appropriate for [its] world. While it didn t elaborate on what those references are, they may pertain to in-game elements connected to its senior creative director Alex Afrasiabi, as
Kotaku has noted. Afrasiabi was singled out in the lawsuit filed by California authorities accusing Activision Blizzard of fostering a frat boy culture that s become a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women.
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According to the lawsuit, Afrasiabi is known for hitting on and touching female employees inappropriately in plain view of other male employees who would try to intervene and stop him. He apparently has such a notorious reputation within the company that his suite was nicknamed the Crosby Suite after alleged rapist Bill Crosby. (The lawsuit has misspelled Bill Cosby s name.) In addition, executives allegedly knew a