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?
