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BEHOLD: Activision Blizzard is born

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 8th 2008 5:00PM

Stockholders have approved the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games to form the goliath Activision Blizzard. GameDaily reports the deal officially closes on July 9 and the new company will trade on the Nasdaq under Activision's ATVI ticker. This instantly makes Activision Blizzard the new alpha dog in the industry with a value of $18.9 billion -- EA now trails with $14.1 billion.

Without getting into the nitty-gritty details, Activision Blizzard is expected to have the highest profit margins in the industry. Activision Blizzard should also continue to enjoy bagiggles of cash flowing into its coffers unless franchises like World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero suddenly self-destruct.

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Tags: activision, activision-blizzard, activision-vivendi, merger, vivendi, vivendi-games

Reader Comments (44)

Ugliest and least marketable name in existence.

Never judge a developer by it's name.

Valve & People Can Fly ftw!

And yet the richest company the industry has ever seen.

And so the business gets further taken over by the suits...

They'll always be BlizzAct in my heart.

I was going for BlizzardVision.

(patent pending)

I liked 'Blizzactivision' myself.

pff haha blizzactivision

I was rooting for Activlizzard

Vizard
Activizard
Blizzivision
Activision VS Blizzard
Charizard
Monopolyzard
Abcltiizvziasridon

Just some suggestions.

Actard

This is history.

PS: And who wouldn't love a Guitar Hero vs WoW cross-over? April Fool's Bard anyone?

I still like Actiblizzion and Actard better.

lol @ Actard

Blizzavision!
Actiblizzard!
Blactazzision!

Actard!

obviously they should have called themselves Blactivision

NNNOOOOOOO!!!!

too racy lol.

Always bet on ... BLACTivision!

The only Activision game I play is Guitar Hero, and I don't play any Blizzard games, but the fact that there is now a bigger company than EA pleases me.

One more step to world controlling mega corporations! Yay!

Lets see. Vivendi, Viacom, Time Warner.

Thats about half of the media right there!

Oh, and I forgot The Walt Disney Company too.

I guess you can throw News Corporation too.

Prepare for Starcraft 9 within 5 years, skateboards in WoW, and Diablo Hero

Can't wait for Diablo Hero!

Killing demons with crazy guitar riffs? Fighting epic battles against the Lord of Terror with my massive solo? Needing lightning resist in hell mode to stop the torrent of green blue orange triplets?

FUCK YES.

Let's just hope that Blizzard can keep up the quality in work with this new merger... I like the company, and would hate to see Activision hurt it much.

if Im not wrong, Blizzard will still act independently like they were doing under Vivendi

Don't worry! Blizzard will continue taking 5-10 years to make the same game for you over again, in what any other company could do in 6-12 months, whilst making it extremely ugly, able to run on a toaster, and getting their general balls licked by the gaming press, and fanboys for no real apparent reason, whilst Koreans build statues in their honor.

I hope they buy Take 2 so EA can go piss on itself.

Yeah, because Activision having take two would be SOOO much better.

Look at what activision's doing with call of duty and guitar hero, whoring them out every year. They're FAR worse than ea.

Tony Hawk says hi to:)

well i wouldnt mind seeing Actiblizzard buy Take Two. that way i might actually be able to play a decent NFL football game before the century is up. if not, EA would just buy all their decent competition.

Fine, but only if Blizzard gets control of Take 2. Then a GTA MMO could be a reality!

So what's gonna happen to Brutal Legend now?

It'll likely be published under the Activision name

Bandivision?

Well they certainly have some hot new competition. Go ask tony hawk what he thinks of age of conan and rock band.

Just sayin.

And the good name of Blizzard becomes soiled within a year as less-informed customers wonder out loud what the difference is between Activision Blizzard and Blizzard.

[...Nearby a fanboy weeps...]

I love Activision games, and I love Blizzard games, so I'm all for this.

I'm also for any company bigger than EA. I hate EA.

hey i just realised remember when they said Diablo 3 wouldnt come to consoles and now there saying theres a chance it might, it could because of this merge activision are doing the console port of D3

I'd rather have no console port at all than have Activision handle it. I mean, they might hand it to Treyarch *shudders*

Blactizzard...word

Whoa, you used my mock-up logo I made several months ago for an ABXY.org news article. Never expected to see that again. Haha.

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

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