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Activision Blizzard is one of the largest video game publishers in the world, with annual revenues of about $8.8 billion in 2021. [3] The company is composed of five business units: [4] Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, [5] Major League Gaming, [6] and Activision Blizzard Studios.
Battle.net is an Internet-based online game, social networking service, digital distribution, and digital rights management platform developed by Blizzard Entertainment.The service was launched on December 31, 1996, followed a few days later with the release of Blizzard's action-role-playing video game Diablo on January 3, 1997.
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 original Activision company was founded in 1979, as a third-party developer for games on the Atari Video Computer System.In 1988 the company expanded into non-gaming software and renamed itself Mediagenic.
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 ...
Warcraft II: Battle Chest (1996), [30] Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (1997), [31] and Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition (1999) include the original game and Dark Portal [24] Included without expansions in the Blizzard's Game of the Year Collection (1998), [ 32 ] and with the Dark Portal expansion in Blizzard Anthology (2000) [ 33 ] and Warcraft III ...
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 Vivendi ...
Microsoft Gaming is an American multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington established in 2022. Its five development and publishing labels consist of: Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks (publisher of ZeniMax Media), Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King (the latter three are publishers of Activision Blizzard). [2]