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EU Gives Blizzard Activision Its Blessing

Today the European Commission granted French telecom and media group Vivendi permission to merge its videogame unit with Activision, thus bringing to fruition the merger first announced back in December. The Commission had to be sure that the joining of the two companies wouldn't cause a monopoly in the marketplace. They could have just asked us, but no, they had to be all official.

The Commission said for "all categories of game software, the combined firm would continue to face several strong, effective competitors, such as Electronic Arts, and the game console manufacturers, such as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft".
Thank goodness. I know we were all on the edge of our seats there. Go tough-actin' BlizzActin!

EU approves Vivendi-Activision deal [Reuters - Thanks Thibaud!]

9:00 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,035 views, 27 comments

Latest by KreacherOfBloodandRank: Oh God the WOW Bard class is back XD Here's to seeing the Tauren Marine make a serious appearance in Starcraft more »

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The Activision Blizzard Merger That Nearly Wasn't

Trying to combine two companies into one successful partnership that all sides are happy with is hard work - and the Activision Blizzard merger was no exception. Papers filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) detail the process - the preliminary proxy statement is really, really massive, but does contain some interesting details about how the merger came to be (and almost wasn't on multiple occasions). More »

1:30 PM on Sat Feb 2 2008
By mgreene
4,712 views, 11 comments

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EA Ready For Blizzivision Brawl

Electronic Arts has some stiff competition with the Activision Blizzard merger. EA is totally not afraid of Blizzivision. EA welcomes this competition. It doesn't matter if Activision already surpassed EA way back in July as the numero uno third party publisher and that this is just a nail in the proverbial coffin. Nor does it matter that Activision has the World of Warcraft as an IP, Electronic Art is so ready. EA is a fighter. Just listen to this EA rep, who writes:

We're always at our best when we have a clearly defined competitor... [The merger] doesn't change our strategy. Our CEO John Riccitiello has been encouraging senior managers to think of all other publishers as one large competitor — he's been encouraging them to think like challengers.

But wasn't EA already the challenger before the merger?
EA's Challenger [Next-Gen via CVG]

5:00 AM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,285 views, 30 comments

Latest by JohnnyLA: Activision. EA. There really isn't that much of a difference. Both are corporate behemoths and neither have good for quality of life for most of their respective dev studios from what I've heard. Knock each other out. :) more »