Esport Poker League03rd December 2007, 02:45
Blizzard merges, for the better?
Today Blizzard announced that it is merging with Activision to create a new global entertainment organization called Activision Blizzard. This is still pending the approval of shareholders. Through this merge, they have now created a giant gaming company which will be the biggest powerhouse of gaming companies. They reported on their WoW web site that, "similar to our previous arrangement, Blizzard Entertainment will now operate as a division of this new organization."
They stated that there will be no changes inside the company, or with the company staff and concepts. They did how ever say that this will enable them to access even greater resources, benefiting all of the companies involved and will further strengthen Blizzard's ability to continue delivering high-quality content for our players around the world for many years to come.
Activision, one of the world's leading independent publishers of interactive entertainment, is best known for its top- selling franchises, including Guitar Hero®, Call of Duty® and the Tony Hawk series, as well as Spider-Man™, X-Men™, Shrek®, James Bond™ and TRANSFORMERS™. Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, has projected calendar 2007 revenues of $1.1 billion, operating margins of over 40% and approximately $520 million of operating profit. Blizzard owns the #1 multi-player online role-playing game franchise, World Of Warcraft, which currently has over 9.3 million subscribers worldwide. Blizzard's World Of Warcraft, Warcraft®, StarCraft® and Diablo® games account for four of the top-five best-selling PC game titles of all time. Vivendi Games also owns popular franchises, including Crash Bandicoot™ and Spyro™.
More information regarding this gigantic merge can be found at the following websites:
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I believe this is huge, and will help blizzard develop maybe some of their games with consoles other than PC in mind.
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Maybe this will help Starcraft: Ghost out? Or has it been canceled 100%?
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ArDs-DsL
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Interesting move by Blizzard :/
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oX
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I'm scared now, hopefully blizzard won't turn in a crap quality compagny
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looks like blizzard moved to comercial side :(
Sleeping is overrated !
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The original Blizzard didnt changed. Vivendi who owns Blizzard took over over Activision and they just created a new division named: Activision Blizzard. And the Blizzard we know will be be sub-division of it afaik. But maybe we will see some changes inside Blizzard, but we all hope this wont happen and we will see great games from Blizzard ^^
Agianst All Odds~~
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LastDance 
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#1 - Yea I hope this helps out SC:Ghost too. It most likely will if they haven't cancelled.
I hope Blizzard doesn't turn into the next Square Enix >< | |
It will be something like Blizzard North?
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