Unit 8, Canal Side
Industrial Estate, Woodbine Street East, Rochdale, OL16
Monday, June 26, 2023
A&F Software
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Activision / Mediagenic / Activision Blizzard
15 Harley House, Marylebone Road, London, NW1
Good grief. No other company has sent me trekking so far around and about London and the outer reaches of the M25. I've occasionally thought I could organise these articles into nice walks. I could do you a trip around Liverpool, or Manchester, or along the line of Domark's southwest London offices. I couldn't do that for Activision. Just the addresses inside the M25 produce a walk 22 miles long. I didn't know true existential despair until I'd compiled all 13* addresses Activision UK used -and continue to use- in their long history. Even now I'm worried I've missed one**. If Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard goes through that could mean another move for the company. Oh god, no. No updates. No updates.
*Wrong. It's actually 16.
** I did.
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