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Activision Blizzard currently includes three operating units: [4] Activision, Blizzard Entertainment and King [5] Founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision, Inc. and Vivendi Games, the company owns and operates additional subsidiary studios, as part of Activision, including Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games. [4]
Infinity Ward was founded as an independent game studio by Grant Collier, Jason West, and Vince Zampella in 2002, with a publishing agreement with Activision. [8] [4] The studio was formed by several members of 2015 Games, LLC., the studio that developed the successful Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for Electronic Arts (EA) in 2002.
This is a list of Microsoft Gaming video game studios, including development studios, support studios, satellite studios and offices.Microsoft Gaming is an American video game company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, US, founded on January 18, 2022.
The company was founded as Activision, Inc. on October 1, 1979, in Sunnyvale, California, by former Atari game developers upset at their treatment by Atari in order to develop their own games for the popular Atari 2600 home video game console. Activision was the first independent, third-party, console video game developer.
Respawn Entertainment, LLC is an American video game development studio founded in 2010 by Jason West and Vince Zampella and owned by Electronic Arts since 2017. West and Zampella previously co-founded Infinity Ward and created the Call of Duty franchise, where they were responsible for its development until 2010.
Activision: Santa Monica, California, United States 1979 Call of Duty Guitar Hero Spyro: video game developer; acquired Neversoft in 1999 and Infinity Ward in 2003; acquired several other developers as well; merged with Vivendi to form Activision Blizzard in 2008 Activision Blizzard: Santa Monica, California, United States 2008
Treyarch was founded in 1996 as Treyarch Inventions and was acquired by Activision in 2001. In 2005, Gray Matter Studios was merged into Treyarch. [4] [5]As part of the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention, Activision announced that Treyarch would be one of three developers behind their first James Bond-based game, 007: Quantum of Solace.
In December 2007, American publisher Activision announced a proposed merger deal with Vivendi Games that would create a new holding company named Activision Blizzard. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The deal was approved by Activision's shareholders on July 8, 2008, [ 20 ] and the merger was finalized on July 10, creating Activision Blizzard while dissolving ...