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Electronic Arts has fired out a warning shot to new publishing goliath Activision Blizzard – warn the Vivendi-owned giant that it will not give up its dominance of the market without a fight. Vivendi and Activision announced its new ‘merger’ on Sunday, which sees the French publisher take 52 per …

French entertainment giant Vivendi is set to increase its stake in Activision from 52 per cent to 68 per cent within five days of the initial deal closing. The news comes following yesterday’s announcement about the ‘merger’ of Vivendi and Activision to create new games giant Activision Blizzard. In a …

Activision, which yesterday became the newly-crowned leading global games publisher follwoing its merger with Vivendi , has stated that it is brimming with confidence going into the annual battle for the Christmas number one – with Call of Duty 4 spearheading its efforts. The fourth iteration of the high profile …

Shock deal worth $18.9bn creates world's biggest publisher, called Activision Blizzard, and huge development resource

In the most surprising news of the year, Electronic Arts has been dethroned as the games industry’s biggest publisher, ousted by a new company formed following the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games. The two companies said that the massive power-shifting deal, worth a total of $18.9bn, will create ‘the …

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has forecast that both Sony and Microsoft will need” to drop the price of their next gen consoles to $199 (100) in the next two years to reach mass market consumers. He added that he believes the Wii, which currently sells for $250 (125), would drop …

US publisher Activision has reported a net revenue increase of 69 per cent for the fiscal quarter ending September 30th compared to the same period last year, with figures hitting $317.7, up from $188.2 in 2006. Income for the period reached $700,000, compared to a net loss of $24.3 million …

It has been confirmed to MCV that the current UK head of Microsoft Xbox PR Nick Grange is to move to publisher Activision to assume the role of European PR director on November 29th. Grange has been with the Xbox platform holder for five years, overseeing the successful launch of …

Global development studios to use Audiokineticâ??s middleware

Robin Kaminsky, the executive vice president of Activision, has told MCV that newly acquired UK developer Bizarre Creations will work on an existing Activision franchise as well as create a new racing game. We believe in brands and franchises not individual titles,” Kaminsky told MCV. So we’ll be working with …