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Activision and Vivendi Merge - World's Largest Publisher
Posted by XanTium | December 2 18:07 EST | News Category: GamingGeneral

From gamesindustry.biz:
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Activision and Vivendi Games are to merge, becoming the world's largest independent videogame publisher, in a deal valued at USD 18.9 billion

The new company, Activision Blizzard, now boasts a portfolio bursting with some of the top-selling videogame franchises including Blizzard's World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, Vivendi's Crash Bandicoot and Spyro and Activision's Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and the Tony Hawk series.

Kotick will remain as chief executive of Activision Blizzard, while Vivendi Games boss Bruce Hack will become vice chairman and chief corporate officer. He will also lead the merger, expected to be compete in the first half of 2008.

Activision also said that it will now have access to Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, "which will benefit Guitar Hero and further extend our sizeable leadership position in music-based games."
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Full Story: gamesindustry.biz

21cwSpanky	Dec 3 2007, 12:46 AM Post #2
X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 2-December 05 Member No.: 261288	Great, twice the suck and still no plans for a steady stream of decent games.

djtonic	Dec 3 2007, 12:49 AM Post #3
X-S Senior Member Group: XS-BANNED Posts: 194 Joined: 7-January 04 From: Taxachusetts, USA Member No.: 89724 Xbox Version: unk 360 version: unknown	Wow...One ring to rule them all! Now if they could only buy EA! There is no way the securities exchange committe would allow that to happen though! I never really like such super power games studios. I agree with all the reasons bungie wanted to be independant...Every one of those games vivendi and activation make dont interest me anyway. Well, WOW used to be alot of fun. ~Dj~

gli7ch	Dec 3 2007, 03:23 AM Post #4
X-S Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 254 Joined: 30-December 05 From: ████████████ Member No.: 266031 Xbox Version: v1.6 360 version: v3.0 (falcon)	I know most of the development of Call of Duty 4 was done by Infinity Ward, but Activision still had some part in it. I see this producing either new idea games, or just a bunch of BS.

Vayate	Dec 3 2007, 03:28 AM Post #5
X-S Genius Group: Members Posts: 868 Joined: 29-April 04 From: Ohio, USA (h8 corn) Member No.: 117237 Xbox Version: v1.3 360 version: unknown	I read this article title as "World's Worst Publisher." Perhaps I wasn't too far off.

DMAddict	Dec 3 2007, 03:51 AM Post #6
X-S Expert Group: Members Posts: 636 Joined: 23-June 06 From: Tetraspace Member No.: 287290 Xbox Version: v1.0 360 version: v2 (zephyr)	Someone should tells these people that bigger does not mean better, especially when it comes to video games. This will not be good for the industry.

mikemikemikemikemike	Dec 3 2007, 03:58 AM Post #7
X-S Young Member Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 18-September 07 Member No.: 356276 Xbox Version: unk 360 version: unknown	yea i agree... take EA buying westwood studios..... C+C up till tiberian sun era were fukin amasing EA buys westwood... generals..... a mockery of a fantastic title and C+C3 wasnt much of a party either.... it seems the more bigger the company.... the lower standard is set....

amak1131	Dec 3 2007, 05:41 AM Post #8
X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 18-February 07 Member No.: 330083 Xbox Version: v1.0 360 version: v4.0 (jasper)	QUOTE(mikemikemikemikemike @ Dec 2 2007, 08:34 PM) yea i agree... take EA buying westwood studios..... C+C up till tiberian sun era were fukin amasing EA buys westwood... generals..... a mockery of a fantastic title and C+C3 wasnt much of a party either.... it seems the more bigger the company.... the lower standard is set.... I am in full agreement with you. I don't even consider Generals a Command and Conquer game. And cnC 3 hasn't lived up to the hype... All this merger says to me is WoW with music (or, crappy game with RIAA all over it). As long as it keeps the WoW players from reproducing, than I am all for it.

darth_jarret	Dec 3 2007, 06:47 AM Post #9
X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Austin, Texas (UT-Go Longhorns!) Member No.: 101180 Xbox Version: v1.0 360 version: v1 (xenon)	QUOTE(amak1131 @ Dec 2 2007, 11:17 PM) I am in full agreement with you. I don't even consider Generals a Command and Conquer game. And cnC 3 hasn't lived up to the hype... All this merger says to me is WoW with music (or, crappy game with RIAA all over it). As long as it keeps the WoW players from reproducing, than I am all for it. lol, i dont think you have to worry about wow players reproducing anyway, they have to leave the computer first, and to all wow players who will read this take it with good humor!

StaTiKMaT	Dec 3 2007, 07:25 AM Post #10
X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 10-March 04 Member No.: 106106	QUOTE(darth_jarret @ Dec 3 2007, 07:23 AM) lol, i dont think you have to worry about wow players reproducing anyway, they have to leave the computer first, and to all wow players who will read this take it with good humor! As a recovering WoW addict (clean for almost a whole year now!) I fully support and agree with the above statement.

KyesaRRi	Dec 3 2007, 07:38 AM Post #11
X-S Freak Group: Members Posts: 1576 Joined: 13-August 04 From: Australia Member No.: 138265 Xbox Version: v1.0 360 version: v1 (xenon)	QUOTE(StaTiKMaT @ Dec 3 2007, 09:01 AM) As a recovering WoW addict (clean for almost a whole year now!) I fully support and agree with the above statement. Bah quitter =P Playing since release and still going strong... wait what ooh WoW brb Edit: Back, there is a post on the wow forums by a blue, can be found here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...13659&sid=1 This post has been edited by KyesaRRi: Dec 3 2007, 07:48 AM

m_hael	Dec 3 2007, 01:42 PM Post #12
X-S Freak Group: Members Posts: 1104 Joined: 23-December 03 From: Chicago, Illinois Member No.: 84709 Xbox Version: v1.4 360 version: v1 (xenon)	QUOTE(gli7ch @ Dec 2 2007, 08:59 PM) I know most of the development of Call of Duty 4 was done by Infinity Ward, but Activision still had some part in it. I see this producing either new idea games, or just a bunch of BS. erm.... Infinity ward IS Activision... 100% owned studio.

gli7ch	Dec 3 2007, 05:41 PM Post #13
X-S Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 254 Joined: 30-December 05 From: ████████████ Member No.: 266031 Xbox Version: v1.6 360 version: v3.0 (falcon)	QUOTE(m_hael @ Dec 3 2007, 08:18 AM) erm.... Infinity ward IS Activision... 100% owned studio. Corrected....Hopefully they can still make some good FPS.

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