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Year 2009

 

Rate It's crunch time for Starcraft II

Original at WA today external link    Mon, Jun 15

 Australia When publishing behemoths Activision and Vivendi Games (owner of Blizzard Entertainment) merged last year, the games developer was so crucial to the deal that the newly formed company was named Activision Blizzard. Its next release is the sequel to ...

Rate It's crunch time for Starcraft II

Original at Stuff.co.nz external link    Wed, Apr 22

 New Zealand When publishing behemoths Activision and Vivendi Games (owner of Blizzard Entertainment) merged last year, the games developer was so crucial to the deal that the newly formed company was named Activision Blizzard. Its next release is the sequel to ...

Rate It's crunch time for Starcraft II

Original at Brisbane Times external link    Tue, Apr 21

 Australia When publishing behemoths Activision and Vivendi Games (owner of Blizzard Entertainment) merged last year, the games developer was so crucial to the deal that the newly formed company was named Activision Blizzard. Its next release is the sequel to ...

Rate Activision Blizzard's March Quarter Net Revenues and Earnings ... - PR Newswire

Original at sev.prnewswire.com external link    Thu, Apr 16    6 related articles

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Also includes the costs of the Blizzard Entertainment equity plan and Vivendi awards to historical Vivendi Games employees. (d) Reflects the results of products and operations from the historical Vivendi Games businesses that the company has exited or ...

Rate Activision Blizzard's March Quarter Net Revenues and Earnings ... - PR Newswire

Original at prnewswire.com external link    Thu, Apr 16    6 related articles

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Also includes the costs of the Blizzard Entertainment equity plan and Vivendi awards to historical Vivendi Games employees. (d) Reflects the results of products and operations from the historical Vivendi Games businesses that the company has exited or ...

Rate 10-K: ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC. - MarketWatch

Original at marketwatch.com external link    Fri, Feb 27

10-K: ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC. Activision Blizzard now conducts the combined business operations of Activision, Inc. and Vivendi Games including Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. See also Note 1 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 of this Annual Report on ...

Rate Source: World of Warcraft Expansion Delayed to March or April

Original at JLM Pacific Epoch external link    Mon, Feb 16

 China - Blizzard Entertainment is a division of Vivendi Games and Activision merger Activision Blizzard. Pacific Epoch is a boutique media and business intelligence ...

Rate Gov Rejects Blizzard's "Ghost" Game Name as "Feudal Superstition"

Original at JLM Pacific Epoch external link    Fri, Feb 13

 China - Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games and Activision merger Activision Blizzard, appealed to the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court to ...

Rate The top 20 game stories of 2008

Original at VentureBeat external link    Fri, Dec 26

 CA - Activision closed its merger with Vivendi Games, which included the crown jewel Blizzard Entertainment, maker of World of Warcraft. In post-merger life, ...

Rate Homes for orphaned games

Original at Santa Rosa Press Democrat external link    Sun, Dec 21

 CA - Dec 21, 2008 of Duty" fame) bought up Vivendi Games (owner of "World of Warcraft" powerhouse and cash cow Blizzard Entertainment, as well as the struggling Sierra), ...

Rate Deal not grounded by airline industry's woes

Original at Daily Report - Top Stories external link    Wed, Dec 3

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 GA - Dec 3, 2008 based Activision and combined Activision with its Vivendi Games subsidiary, which included Blizzard Entertainment. The transaction closed in July. ...

Rate Microsoft signs advertising deal with Activision Blizzard

Original at DigitalBattle external link    Wed, Dec 3

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By Jeff Baker Read (Yahoo! Tech) Related PostsActivision PS3 Titles With 100% More Ads Now Making sure gamers don???t get PS3 versions of their titles, Activision has announced that it h…Activision Blizzard Merger Approved Activision today announced that its merger with Blizzard Entertainment...

Rate Companies | Blizzard Entertainment | Game Central | Game, New and ...

Original at Game Central external link    Sat, Nov 22    4 related articles

Blizzard was part of the Vivendi Games group of Vivendi. In July 2008 Vivendi Games merged with Activision, using Blizzard’s name in the resulting company, Activision Blizzard. In 1996, Blizzard acquired Condor Games, which had been ...

Rate World of Warcraft" has rivals racing for new worlds - Vox

Original at Beta1’s external link    Fri, Nov 21    4 related articles

By Beta1 Fans of the massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game by Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of Vivendi Games, lined up outside stores around the world this month to get the game's second expansion pack "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich ...

Rate » “World of Warcraft” faces rivals that are looking for new worlds <b>...</b>

Original at myddnetwork.com external link    Fri, Nov 21    4 related articles

This month, fans of the massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game by Blizzard Entertainment, which is a unit of Vivendi Games, lined up outside stores around the world to get their second expansion pack “World of Warcraft: Wrath of the ...

Rate "World of Warcraft" enfrenta a rivales que buscan nuevos mundos

Original at Reuters América Latina external link    Thu, Nov 20

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Terra Chile  UK - Nov 20, 2008 Los seguidores del videojuego de rol multijugador masivo en línea de Blizzard Entertainment, una unidad de Vivendi Games, se aglomeraron a la salida de las ... World of Warcraft®: Wrath of the Lich King™ rompe récord de ventas ... Business Wire (press release)

Rate WOW game goldu6 » Blog Archive » Activision-Blizzard April-June ...

Original at edublogs.eu external link    Sun, Nov 16    4 related articles

The former properties of Vivendi Games, which include World of Warcraft powerhouse Blizzard Entertainment, generated €223 million, or $347.8 million, during the same period, bringing total Activision Blizzard earnings to approximately ...

Rate Dan Aykroyd Confirms Role In Ghostbusters News - TotalVideoGames.com

Original at Total Video Games external link    Wed, Oct 15

By editor@totalvideogames.com Universal Studios is currently owned by US television network NBC and Vivendi Group, owners of Vivendi Games, Sierra Entertainment, and World of Warcraft developers, Blizzard Entertainment. News of a Ghostbusters videogame comes as ...

Rate News : Activision merges with Blizzard parent, Vivendi [PC] - from ...

Original at GamePro.com external link    Sat, Aug 30

Activision and Vivendi Games (parent company of Blizzard Entertainment) announced an 18.9 billion dollar merger on Sunday, forming a new company called Activision Blizzard where current Activision CEO, Robert Kotick, will remain as ...

Rate Activision: Vivendi Games Merger Officially Approved

Original at Wired external link    Fri, Jul 11

By Earnest Cavalli Once official, the merger will see Vivendi Games (which includes Blizzard Entertainment and Sierra Entertainment) become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activison. Activision, Vivendi Quit ESA Activision Blizzard Readies for Gaming's Post-Retail FutureActivision Unveils Guitar...

Rate Blizzard Made $295M Last Quarter, Wrath of the Lich King Dated For Second Half Of '08

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, May 14

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By Michael McWhertor Vivendi Games, which contributed some $340 million to its parent company's "very good" first quarter, continues to place much of its success on Blizzard Entertainment. The World of Warcraft developer provided an impressive $295 million to Vivendi's games division, with a good portio...

Rate Activision Announces Record Billion-Dollar Growth In "Breakthrough" Fiscal 08

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, May 8    1 related articles

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By Leigh Alexander Primarily, the company looks ahead to the finalization of its merger with Vivendi Games (notably including Blizzard Entertainment and its market-leading World of Warcraft), which still requires stockholder approval and other closing procedures.

Rate Orange Box, COD4, BioShock Dominate AIAS Awards [Awards]

Original at Kotaku external link    Fri, Feb 8

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By Mike Fahey Multiplayer Game of the Year: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Publisher: Vivendi Games Developer: Blizzard Entertainment Producer: Frank Pearce Game Director: Rob Pardo Creative Director: Chris Metzen Cellular Game of the Year: skate. Publisher: Electronic Arts

Rate Blizzard Loots $1.2 Billion From 2007, Thanks To WoW

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Jan 30

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By Michael McWhertor Vivendi, of which Blizzard Entertainment is a division, released its 2007 earnings revenues today, revealing that the World of Warcraft publisher raked in $1.2 billion (€814 million) in revenue last year. WoW's 10 million large subscriber base contributed the lion's share of the Viv...

Rate Rumor: Blizzard working on a cell application for World of Warcraft?

Original at Massively external link    Fri, Jan 25

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By Michael Zenke Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Business models, MMO industry, News items, Opinion, Mobile, RumorsNow that would be cool. It's just a rumour, but Pocket Gamer is reporting that Blizzard Entertainment may be working on a cellphone application for World of Warcraft players. The...

Year 2007

 

Rate Blizzard Entertainment: Activision Blizzard CEO speaks

Original at Breaking News from Feeds external link    Wed, Dec 5

By asp (asp) The newly-formed company, Kotick says, "unlocks the value of Blizzard" and other parts of Vivendi Games. "Being part of the biggest video game company in the world instead of a big French media company feels more relevant to the employees."

Rate Will There Be Activision Blizzard Branding? No. [Business]

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Dec 3

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By Brian Ashcraft As we announced last night, Vivendi Games (which includes Blizzard Entertainment) and Activision have merged after Vivendi bought a majority share in the company. Like with any merger, things will obviously change. Things like the name, which will now be Activision Blizzard. Say that a c...

Rate Vivendi bags 19 Q3 sales increase; WoW population hits 9.3M

Original at Qj.net external link    Wed, Nov 14

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By Ceasar S. Vivendi Games, whose umbrella encompasses Sierra Entertainment, Vivendi Games Mobile, Blizzard Entertainment, and Sierra Online, has posted its financial performance for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 and came up with interesting numbers. The video game publisher took home an ap...

Rate Vivendi bags 19 Q3 sales increase; WoW population hits 9.3M

Original at Mobile external link    Wed, Nov 14

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By Ceasar S. Vivendi Games, whose umbrella encompasses Sierra Entertainment, Vivendi Games Mobile, Blizzard Entertainment, and Sierra Online, has posted its financial performance for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 and came up with interesting numbers. The video game publisher took home an ap...

Rate Video Games Live Orchestrates Special Blizzard Concert Events

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, May 14

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By Michael McWhertor Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Vivendi Games, is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some o...

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