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Tuesday, 10 June 2008
You may have heard about the merging of the two big super-developers, Activision and Vivendi Games (Parent company of Blizzard). Today, it was announced that the two would hold a shareholders vote on July 8th to decide on whether the merger should go ahead. The outcome looks likely to be a 'yes'. So what will this mean for 'great' games like WoW (Blizzard) and Guitar Hero (Activision)?
Not a lot really. The venture of Activision Blizzard will have the company valued at $18.9 billion (that's a lot of dollar kids). The controlling interest will be that of Vivendi SA, but, supposedly in the ideas of fairness, the CEO will be Activison's current CEO, Bobby Kotick. However, the running of the two companies will be virtually the same as it remains now, simply with bigger political and financial power.
Activision is the company responsible for bringing you games like guitar hero and CoD, whilst Vivendi is a French owned company that is the parent of Sierra games and Blizzard and brought WoW into the world, along with Starcraft.
Anyway, that was some business news for you, and here's something I found very entertaining. Read on WoW lovers.
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