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Vivendi Games (formerly known as CUC Software, Cendant Software, Havas Interactive, Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing and Vivendi Universal Games) ...
Vivendi Games was an American video game holding company founded in July 1996. It published games through various subsidiaries and labels, such as Black Label Games, Blizzard Entertainment (), Coktel Vision, Fox Interactive, NDA Productions, Sierra Entertainment, Universal Interactive and Vivendi Games Mobile.
Activision Blizzard acquired social gaming company King, creator of casual game Candy Crush Saga, for $5.9 billion in November 2015. [ 5 ] In November 2015, Activision Blizzard announced the formation of Activision Blizzard Studios , a film production arm that would produce films and television series based on Activision Blizzard's franchises ...
Vivendi SE (stylized as “vivendi”) is a French mass-media holding company headquartered in Paris. It owns Gameloft as well as a number of investments in several companies. In 2000, Vivendi Universal was created from the merger with Groupe Canal+ and Seagram Company Ltd. (owner of Universal Studios). In 2006, it sold off most of the ...
In 2000, the merger of Vivendi and Universal Studios consolidated the division into Vivendi's Havas Interactive, which was renamed Vivendi Universal Games the next year. Universal Interactive continued as a label until 2003, when Vivendi began divesting ownership of Universal Studios, retaining the newly renamed Vivendi Games .
Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment (division of Universal Pictures, now owned by Cinedigm) Activision Blizzard (5.8% stake, now owned by Microsoft Gaming) Maroc Telecom (53% stake, now owned by Etisalat) SFR (sold to Altice) Global Village Telecom (sold to Telefônica Vivo) Vivendi Environnement (divested through IPO between 2000 and 2002, now known ...
Gameloft was founded by Michel Guillemot, one of the five founders of Ubisoft, on 14 December 1999. [2] [3] By February 2009, Gameloft had shipped over 200 million copies of its games since its IPO, [4] as well as 2 million daily downloads of its games via the App Store for iOS.
When Vivendi Games merged with Activision to form Activision Blizzard in 2008, Vivendi's former studios, including Radical Entertainment, became part of Activision. [14] At the time, Radical Entertainment was developing four games, including Crash: Mind Over Mutant and Prototype. Activision laid off around 100 people, half of the studio's staff ...