Not sure about Activision side, but Blizzard has long had an Austin office: https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/austin https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en

Not sure about Activision side, but Blizzard has long had an Austin office: https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/austin https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/austin It started out mainly to hire more GMs for World Of Warcraft (had a few people in my larger social circle that worked there). But it looks to have expanded to include some non-game engineering roles.