July 10, 2008 -- Paris, France and Santa Monica, CA - Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the completion of the transaction announced on December 2, 2007 to create Activision Blizzard, as the world's most profitable pure-play online and console game publisher. Activision Blizzard was formed by combining Activision, one of the world's leading independent publishers of interactive entertainment, and Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business, which includes Blizzard Entertainment's® World of Warcraft®, the world's #1 subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Activision Blizzard will continue to operate as a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker ATVI.
I was really hoping for Blactivision, complete with '70s blaxploitation themes.
*cue chicka-wah-wah guitar*
Side?? More like back. Orcs are drummers!
Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain has a Orc singer and would pwn the face off any GH band.
And is the tagline "We swallow your soul" already taken?
pure-play