Activision and Vivendi merge, officially a 2 ton gorilla

Posted Dec 4th 2007 11:45AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News

Yeah, yeah, we're late to the news. Let's get it out of our systems, shall we? All better? Good. The simple fact is we were wrist-deep in ~~poopy~~ Fancast yesterday, so the news had to wait. If, by some miracle, you haven't heard, Activision has merged with Vivendi Games, owners of Blizzard (World of Warcraft). So, the number one third party publisher has merged with the owners of basically the most successful game ever made to create Activision Blizzard. Lots of follow-up stories have broken since then, and instead of recounting them all here, we present you with a nice list culled from the headlines at Joystiq. Feel free to peruse them at your leisure. Make sure you do though, or you'll look like a fool when the subject comes up at your next gamer cocktail party.

Tags: activision, activision-blizzard, blizzard, vivendei-universal, vivendi, vivendi-games

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

12-04-2007 @ 11:54AM

xenocidic said...

my my

WoW 360 anyone ?

12-04-2007 @ 11:58AM

DjDATZ said...

Please no! I want to finish university! LOL

12-04-2007 @ 11:59AM

DjDATZ said...

Other than that...bigger publisher = more money for game development. Now...how can we convince them to go Xbox 360 exclusive...? Hmmmm

12-04-2007 @ 12:21PM

Tony said...

Blizzard has been so ridiculously successful doing what they do that it'd be stupid for Activision to even bother interfering. They're going to make a ton of money off of it running how it always has.

12-04-2007 @ 12:24PM

Wilson said...

WoW on the 360 would be fun, but please don't follow SquareEnix on the achievements for FFXI, those things are impossible >.

12-04-2007 @ 12:29PM

BobTheMonkey said...

"So, the number one third party publisher has merged with the owners of basically the most successful game ever made..."

Wait, I didn't read anything about Bungie....

12-04-2007 @ 12:45PM

Tony said...

Once Bungie gets 8,000,000 or so active users who pay continuing fees (Bungie Pro?) maybe then they can replace Blizzard there lol.

12-05-2007 @ 5:36AM

Boff said...

Isn't that what MS is doing to us Gold members?

12-05-2007 @ 5:37AM

Boff said...

Oh yeah, and ActiBlizzard gets my vote.

12-06-2007 @ 2:51PM

BowserUSC said...

Ah yes, we can get free vivendi game demos when signing up for devry's video game class.

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