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Activision shareholders approve Vivendi merger

Activision Blizzard deal completes paving the way for the world's largest videogame publisher

Matt Martin

Guitar Hero: On Tour hits 300k in the US

Activision says it's their biggest DS title launch by a factor of eight and one of the top five launches ever

James Lee

Preliminary injunction denied in Activision merger

Merger with Vivendi will be closed next Wednesday if shareholders approve transaction at meeting

Mark Androvich

Blizzard fans won't notice company merger - Morhaime

And the studio doesn't expect to lose Warcraft revenue to the recently announced Diablo III

Tom Bramwell

Warcraft intended to be ad-supported

Blizzard's Rob Pardo said that the MMO was originally intended to be an ad-supported free-to-play game

Mark Androvich

EA takes away studios' souls, says Bobby Kotick

Activision's CEO speaks out against the business practices of its main rival publisher

James Lee

EU approves Vivendi merger with Activision

The EU has concluded its inquiry, granting permission for Vivendi to merge with Activision

Mark Androvich

Infinity Ward: 1.3 million play Call of Duty 4 "every day"

Halo-beating online numbers for Xbox 360, with PS3 stats "monstrously huge," according to producer Mark Rubin

Johnny Minkley

Trion's Buttler calls Kotick's "bluff"

Trion World Network founder and CEO Lars Buttler has responded to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick's suggestion that it would take a billion dollar investment to be competitive with World of Warcraft

Mark Androvich

$1 billion investment needed to take on World of Warcraft - Kotick

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said that he thinks it would take an investment of half a billion to a billion dollars to take on World of Warcraft - and even then, success isn't guaranteed.

Oli Welsh

Activision: Take-Two didn't fulfill our acquisition requirements

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium 2008 Conference, Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick said that Take-Two did not fulfull the company's acquisition requirements

Mark Androvich

Investors sue Activision over Blizzard merger

An investment group has sued Activision over its impending merger with Blizzard, alleging that the company directors failed to obtain the best deal

Mark Androvich

Analyst predicts huge earnings for ActiBlizz in 2009

Following strong financial results in the past couple of weeks from both Activision and Vivendi Games, one analyst predicts that following the planned merger of the two companies, fiscal 2009 profits could add up to as much as USD 1.38 billion.

Phil Elliott

More banks join Vivendi loan

Vivendi's approved loan of EUR 3.5 billion for the deals including the Activision Blizzard merger and the acquisition of telecoms company Neuf Cegetel, announced last week, has had its backing syndicate expanded.

Phil Elliott

Vivendi closes finance for Activision deal

The completion of the Activision Blizzard deal has moved a step closer with the news that Vivendi has secured funding to the tune of EUR 3.5 billion

Phil Elliott

Activision pair bag $40m

Activision executives Robert Kotick and Brian Kelly stand to make around USD 40 million between them as a result of the deal to merge Activision with Vivendi Games, thanks to their current shareholding in the company.

Phil Elliott

Stock Report: December 7

Stock in Activision rose by nearly 19 per cent across the past week, since Sunday's shock announcement that it had agreed a deal to merge with Vivendi Games.

Phil Elliott

EA won't rule out further developer acquisitions

Following the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, Electronic Arts has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that there is always a possibility of further acquisitions by the publishing giant.

Matt Martin

Deal of the Year

Ringing in the changes on the ActiBlizz merger

Rob Fahey

Consolidation inevitable, says Take-Two CEO

Take-Two Interactive CEO Ben Feder told a business conference that consolidation in the videogame industry is inevitable as growth continues

Mark Androvich

Activision stock up 12.73 per cent

The value of both Activision and Vivendi's stock increased during the first day of trading following the announcement of a merger between the two companies

Mark Androvich

Divnich: Game company mergers better than conglomerate purchases

The simExchange analyst Jesse Divnich, commenting upon the Activision/Vivendi merger, thinks that acquisitions by media conglomerates have a negative effect on creativity and orginality

Mark Androvich

US analysts react to ActiBlizz merger

US analysts have raised their price targets on Activision in response to news that the company is merging with Vivendi Games

Mark Androvich

Call of Duty 5, Guitar Hero IV confirmed?

A fact sheet on the newly-live Activision Blizzard web site seems to have announced the forthcoming release of Call of Duty 5 and Guitar Hero IV - both titles that have previously not been mentioned.

Phil Elliott

ActiBlizz deal to prompt further consolidation?

Piers Harding-Rolls, senior games analyst at Screen Digest, has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that the Activision Blizzard merger is a sound one, and could lead to more deals in the future, providing they make good business sense.

Phil Elliott