
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.
- Activision and Blizzard parent merge in $18 billion deal
- Blizzard wants you to know that merger won't affect their games
- GameSetWatch analyzes Activision/Vivendi merger
- The Activision Blizzard conference call
- Activision stock way up after merger news
- Joystiq Podcast Roundtable - Blizzavision ... Actiblizzard?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-04-2007 @ 11:54AM
xenocidic said...
my my
WoW 360 anyone ?
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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
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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.
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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 >.
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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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