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Take-Two spells out its diversity efforts amid Activision Blizzard problems

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick took some time during the company’s analyst call Monday to spell out the company’s efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Diversity rarely comes up during Wall Street analyst calls for video game companies, as the topics usually focus on company financials. But it did this week, thanks to the explosive news on July 21 that one of the industry’s largest companies, Activision Blizzard, was hit with a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the State of California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.