Activision PR manager took $29k from Call of Duty budget

this was probably the reason why it had short campaign. they must've surely left less money to work with.

I imagine she was making good money already. If you got something good, don't jeopardize it with foolish and unlawful behavior.

These are the type of people who work for these companies, yet you sheep continue to support the publishers.

Bet she cost Activision more than piracy did for this game.

If worked for these corpses, i'd take much more.

Headline is misleading. Figure should be given in £s since it's from a UK event and the headline implies it was taken from the game budget and NOT from the launch event budget as is the case. But no, $29k from Call of Duty budget sounds more impressive and shocking I'm sure.

Not a big deal, Martin, but it's crap like this that lowers your own journalism to Daily Mail standard.

""glamorous and luxurious" world of public relations."...and that is where the money of the gaming industry is going, devs work their butts off, people spend their saving and still companies go bankrupt...

I hate thieves.... Africa has the right idea about cutting hands off. I would love to see her face if they said theres a new law passed about cutting peoples arms off who steal. TAKE YOUR PICK, LONG SLEEVE OR SHORT SLEEVE ?!!!!!!

She would make a good politician.

-Sexist comment about it being a woman- B)

Thats some bs for the other employees, but otherwise that happens all the time.

hahahaha

enjoy bro!

NOW I know why games cost sixty (60) bucks!!!

I don't understand why CoD has such as huge budget anyway. How difficult can is possible be to look at a bunch of code, press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, open a new window, and Ctrl+V. All that is left is paying the intern $20 to make a picture of a Marine holding an M16 walking towards the front of the box and you're basically set for a new CoD game.

I guess if you are born greeedy you will die greedy. Why to abuse position if postion is paying you shit loads of money. Very very stupid lady.

Lol funny

Reading this, all I could think of was: well yeah, they can afford it ...

This guy Jamie was her fiancé at the time. Kind of an important detail that puts the whole thing in another slimier light.

"Luxury shopping trips, holidays, iPads, and a bachelorette party."

Good on the girl I say, until Activision decide to actually innovate the games the money might as well go to good use.

Bachelorette parties all the way!

Government does this all the time.

in what way is this gaming news

"oh no! you see, I was just "borrowing" :) "

Sums up PR people perfectly imo.

Now, and this is just my opinion, they should all be f'n shot!

They are in it for the money and nothing else.

So this is why the game seemed unfinished......thought the campaign was too short.

@HeadBasherMonk It makes perfect sense when you have no idea what you're saying!

29K? Look, if you're going to be a fraud, go big or go home.

Take a few hundred bucks from your local store and you end up in jail. F***ing corporate crimes. Gotta love the world we live in.

$29,000 Quit bitching, like you were going to use it to make the game better.