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Activision Blizzard at Gamescom 2013, where the company exhibited 2013 titles such as Call of Duty: Ghosts and Skylanders: Swap Force. On July 25, 2013, Activision Blizzard announced the purchase of 429 million shares from owner Vivendi for $5.83 billion, dropping the shareholder from a 63% stake to 11.8% by the end of the deal in September. [41]
List of franchises owned by an American video game holding, Activision Blizzard. Subcategories. This category has the following 25 subcategories, out of 25 total. C.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.Originally founded in 1991, the company is best known for producing the highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (2004), as well as the multi-million selling video game franchises Diablo, StarCraft and ...
The company is composed of five business units: [4] Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, [5] Major League Gaming, [6] and Activision Blizzard Studios. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Among its assets are ownership of Call of Duty , Crash Bandicoot , and Spyro from Activision's studios; Warcraft , Diablo , StarCraft , and Overwatch from Blizzard ...
List of trillion-dollar companies ... acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard in October 2023. ... portfolio includes stakes in companies such as Apple, Coca-Cola, American Express and ...
This is a list of largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the video game industry with publicly disclosed deal values.Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is the most expensive video game acquisitions of all time followed by Activision-Vivendi Games merger and Take-Two Interactive-Zynga acquisition. 14 of the 20 most expensive video game purchases in video game history occurred ...
On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Activision Blizzard, an American video game holding company, for $68.7 billion in cash. [26] The deal has been approved by both companies' board of directors and was finalized on October 13, 2023, with the total cost of the acquisition amounting to $75.4 billion, following ...
In 2021, workers at Activision Blizzard walked out several times over layoffs and working conditions for marginalized groups, and the company has also faced several claims of sexual harassment ...