Activision and Blizzard get in bed with each other

[Morph]

"The BBC reports that Blizzard and Activision have announced an $18.8bn merger. Activision's CEO, Bobby Kotick, will become the head of the joint company, while Vivendi, Blizzard's current parent company, will become the largest single investor in the new group. Even with the size of the merger, the combined company will still be smaller than the industry giant EA. 'As part of the merger plan, Blizzard will invest $2bn in the new company, while Activision is putting up $1bn. The merged business will be called Activision Blizzard and its chief executive will be Activision's current CEO Bobby Kotick. Vivendi will be the biggest shareholder in the group.'"

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/02/1728243&from=rss

[General Kane Nash]

After the HUGE failure of Empire Earth III Activision have no other chance than to be Blizzard's pet, and yeah, those games run on with french money :evil:

[Toxic10x]

As long as this does not compromise the extreme awesomeness of Blizzard's games, I'm cool with it.

[Gaucho8788]

Yes. When StarCraft 2 finally comes out and it's ****, then I'll blame it on Activision.