Activision Blizzard, thats going to take time to get used to

@Monco

Actually, he is mostly right. In most nations in Europe that use the Euro, the plural is simply "Euro". NO plural S is added. Things simply cost 5 euro, 20 euro, etc. Many english speakers will add a plural s, such as in ireland, and that is not wrong either. Basically, both can be correct, its more of a local difference.

COD4 is still makin headlines. bery nice

Call of duty should have only one developer period.!! which one has achieved the best quality in the games? Infinity so, infinity should be the only developer. I'm sorry Treyarch but you should stick the web on your spider man games

5% operating profit. Who would have thought the software entertainment industry would be a low-margin business. If I bust my ass for a billion and a half in sales, I better at least take home 100 million. I wonder why the french want to buy into a low margin business like that. They must see huge growth potential or something. I wonder what EA's operating profit margin is?

Call of Duty 4 was amazing,I rented it and I wish I bought it.Great multiplayer and campaign that like changes your life...kind of.Certainly one of the best games ever.

i can careless, we want our games now...lol

GOOD! glad EA doesnt get rewarded for loading out the shovel ware and sports game 0x

@ vicsrealms
Not every console-type gamer is bad. (though i admit the the ratio of "behaved" console gamers isn't great

lol, sophospeare. Americans love an underdog, but I don't think anyone will stoop that low. I don't even want to contemplate WoW on a console system. I remember the horrors of playing with console gamers in FFXI. I don't even want to go through that with WoW.

EA....is an underdog???? I hope this doesn't mean I have to stop hating them!

Hmm i wonder if they will do WOW for consoles now ? xlive has 10million users now although the conan hyborian adventures is on its way to 360 i feel the console formats could use a mmo ( a good mmo not that crap that is about at the moment on them ) .

@ Quintinius:

"It's spelt "euro" for plural, not "euros"."

Actually, the plural is euros and NOT euro. *snickers*

great! wonder what activision will bring to the warcraft series and W.O.W.

not bad at all, sounds good

Kudos to the group at Activision. Good move.

We can only hope they treat their purchases with respect, unlike EA.

I guess?

i wounder if it would be great tho.

Sounds juicy.

@dannymalt Activision didn't steal Guitar Hero because Harmonix never owned Guitar Hero, Red Octane owned Guitar Hero Harmonix just developed it, and Activision bought Red Octane and MTV Games bought Harmonix.

well I didn't see this coming congrats to activison. activison blizzard. Will Be the ultimate software company yet.

Congrats on your accomplishments.

Congrats Activision and Infinity Ward on making Call of Duty 4. Although, I'm not sure you want to advertise having a top selling game like Rock Band. I wouldn't even consider that a game, much less something worth spending money on.

As for Activision Blizzard, wth? It should have just stayed Blizzard. ~grin~

actually piratedrunk, I'm not sure about the US, it may be "spelled" but in the UK "spelt" is the preferred usage.

Congrats Activision.I hope after becoming Activision Blizzard, Quality should go up more.Good Luck!.

It's spelled "spelled" not "spelt".

Once people(general public) start to realize that Rock Band >>>>> Guitar Hero it will be interesting to see just how many copies they sell.

It's spelt "euro" for plural, not "euros".

Activision did not create guitar hero, they stole(bought) it from Harmonix who made the first 2 guiatar hero games. And now they put out the 3rd game, and it sold well. it sold well because the hype of the previous games was finally going to pay off for the 3rd game in the series. Guitar Hero was gaining popularity, and Activision just put out a barely improved Guitar Hero Game, and raked in the cash. And now their bragging about it. I hate Activision.

Thats nice, good for them

We can only wait and see where this goes...

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'AceCometh They could have come up with a better name. "Activision Blizzard" sucks.'

They've already stated that this combo name will just be the corporate merged title, but insofar as public names/logos, Blizzard remains known as Blizzard Entertainment, and Activision is Activision, as usual. No awkward "Namco Bandai"-style combo publisher title for us gamers to embrace.

Good job Activision! Vivendi will totally give you a boost!

I never had particularry liked Activision, the fact that they are stuck up about passing EA by .4% of the non PC market? EA clearly surpasses them in PC games. but really .4%? A new guitar hero yearly is where they make money $90 for a game people have played before, its a good game, but not a $90 game.

Treyarch's CoD games weren't bad game, they just weren't as good as IW's amazing installments.

Blizzard has the golden touch that Activision needs.

I do hope that Activision holds on to the ideals of quality over quanitity. Really do hope they don't follow the same path as EA. Bigger is not always bad but it tends to make the accountants run things more so then the innovators.

CoD is made by 2 different developers, though, so maybe quality (atleast on the IW CoDs) will stay high. Treyarch's always seem to suck, though.

High Profitability does NOT equal poor quality. That was just what happened to EA after they secured exclusivity and Atari after they stopped innovation. Activision still has competition and still has innovation with their top-tiered games. Please don't bash the top guys unless you really wish to be ignorant.

The only thing that has me worried was a previous announcement around the time Activision and Vivendi merged: Some of Activision's franchises will be released on an annual basis. I could live with that with Guitar Hero (the gameplay is simple enough for that), but I'm going to have serious concern for Call of Duty if they release it annually. Tread lightly, Activision. Don't get cocky and sloppy like your EA predecessor because we'll notice.

i argree wih pinworm (look at bungie they made a killer off halo 2 and it rocks but now look at halo 3 its a ok game but it could be way better, or it could lead to more time and money to invest in next game?

They could have come up with a better name. "Activision Blizzard" sucks.

Horrible news.. Higher Profitability and status almost always ends in lower quality of game or care (or heart if you will).

While this is great news for Activision, it's bad news for gamers, as I believe this will lead to a slow degrade in product quality (no need to improve when you're number one and making ridiculous profits).

Or I could be entirely wrong, time will tell.

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