Activision Blizzard merger official

If Activision merged with EA, then they would take over the whole video game world. I think the world deserves plain relaxed companies like Retro Studios.

DCFanatic: "Why not merge with EA. They might be huge like Activision, but they actually care about the consumer, unlike the money-obsessed Activision." ---- Ugh. You know NOTHING. EA does NOT care about their consumers. They release their products in unfinished beta states, release patches that break the game even more (or not even release them at all) and scam people out of their money (see The Sims 2 Store - $1 for everything you buy, which can total three times the price of buying just one of the 50 gajillion expansionpacks). Trust me, EA are far FAR worse than Activision.

Awesome. Activision Blizzard will have a European root, along with Ubisoft, Eidos & Sci. This can only be good for gaming.

this was good and will help blizzard capitalize there expanding empire even further and make even more money. Good move by blizzard.

catcher6250: lol yea wooot activizzard or Blizzvision ftw //////////////////////////////////////// does this mean Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 will get cross-platform WOW now? haha dont we all wanna know /sigh

World of Frostbite or Riverraid anyone ? :)

Now we can look forward to probably one of the most trusted publisher ever. One that is not a monopoly in its genre(EA and its NFL Liscenses). Now the games will probably be even better with the flux of money available. My hopes are high for Activision Blizzard's and I put my money on them becoming more respectable and trusted than ever before.

I love it !!! Hopefully they will crush EA under their heel.

R.I.P. Blizzard

activizzard rarrr

haha this is almost the exact same reason that Viacom is currently suing Youtube.

Finally EA is no longer the big dog.

Congratz, ActiveLizzard sounds good!

DCFanatic, you must not play many EA games, because if you want to see a sell out type of company, EA is the place. They recycle the same game so much that their employees actually only spend maybe a month just to update textures, program in a minor feature, and remove a major feature. Then if you look at the 3D models, you see that they are the exact same, and half of the time with the same texture from the year before, just different lighting for this year.... (EA = Excessive Avarice) EA is far worse than Activision, though Activision is still up there in the evil kingdom. EA is like the ruler of all of hell, while Activision is like the leader of the demons of hell. Even with the Activision/Blizz-Viv merger, they are not as big as EA company worth wise. So yeah once EA finishes with TakeTwo and Ubisoft, they will be even further ahead than Actizard. (haha, I dont hate it gpvs) EA is more evil just because they are buying out as many companies as they are as fast as they are. I swear after Ubi and TTwo they will be going after THQ.

Activision + Blizzard = ActiZard

Also, Bill gates asked "why we dont have something like the ipod?, We got the resources, lets make it happen." 3 years later... Why they cant embrace a partner with such high costumer satisfaction, and develop a joint venture? So they get a a good deal from itunes and Apple gets quality games instead of accepting the crap from EA. Also with 8 million iphone sales in 2009, a $20 guitar hero for iphones, sounds like big cash. DCFanatic pls die or get educated The name could be Blizzion o Acti Blizz (jmm this sounds like a deodorant feature)

DCFANATIC Quote "Well Blizzard totally sold out. Such a good company merging with such evil. Why not merge with EA. They might be huge like Activision, but they actually care about the consumer, unlike the money-obsessed Activision." You're an idiot EA couldn't careless about the consumer they release crap game after crap game and if any other company starts becoming an annoyance they either buy them out or they just buy out the license to that genre "like they did with the NFL". You're comments are beyond reasoning which makes me seriously contemplate whether you have a fully functioning brain. As for Activision Blizzard, Hell yeah bring it ON EA you got a company looking to take you out!.

DCFANATIC Quote "Well Blizzard totally sold out. Such a good company merging with such evil. Why not merge with EA. They might be huge like Activision, but they actually care about the consumer, unlike the money-obsessed Activision." these are the type of comments that annoy me... First of all Vivendi is the parent company of Blizzard.... THEY called this shot... not Blizzard entertainment.. learn the industry or at least read somthing in relevence b4 posting incoherent comments like that.. This is for the better, maybee not directly so much for Blizz them selves but as one entity, this will be a major comepitor to EA by far. Take two should go with them, not EA lol XD just kidding, but that would sure make EA enraged... not sure about all the regulations with buyouts and such and even if take two is allowed to do that..

BlizzVision FTW!

"Why not merge with EA. They might be huge like Activision, but they actually care about the consumer" lol?

Activision is better than EA.

Well Blizzard totally sold out. Such a good company merging with such evil. Why not merge with EA. They might be huge like Activision, but they actually care about the consumer, unlike the money-obsessed Activision.

This was a great merger and both companies will see even more money now because of it.

Just get it over with and call it "BlizzVision" or something, Activision Blizzard just sounds lazy. Then again, I'm sure they wanted to keep their brand names around.

They should call it Blizzvision

I hope it doesn't effect the quality of any of the games.

At least we can say Activision no longer sucks v_v

too...many...syllables

HAHA SELL OUT! (jk)

Wasn't this news months ago?

Is this a good idea?

In one of the hotspot podcasts one of the gamespot ppl said they should be called BlizzardVision. I thought that name was cool.

a better name can be: Activlizzard or Actiblizzard, you only switch the letters "b" for "v" and viceversa

"I liked videogaming better before we were worth a lot of money." Agreed. Now it's getting rather lame.

Activision Blizzard is a super lame name. Remind me of the DragonBall fusions.

EA HQ: ......Nuclear launch detected.

I liked videogaming better before we were worth a lot of money.

Is it just me, or did this come completely out of nowhere?

Illidan versus Arthas on the Ultimate guitar battle for ultimate destiny.

So close now in direct, global competition with EA. Hopefully this merger will help produce even better games then before, now that they have the resources under a single roof.

Battlezone 3?

that's so stupid!

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@XB360PLAYER damm, you came up with the name first... oh well... great minds think alike :)

blizz-a-vision. i think that sounds good

umm..... people are acting like this merger is a good thing. Let's compare the quality of games real quick: Spider-man 3 (Activision) vs. World of Warcraft (Blizzard). If you havent played eithier, let me assure you, there is no comparision in regards to quality because WoW is a million times better quality. (No flamming please, Im not comparing the games, just the quality of the product that each publisher makes)

What about ACTARD? (ACTivision + blizzARD)

They should have a contest to come up with a new name for the company because most people will still refer to the company as Activision or Blizzard.

A-Blizzard? I love it... This is only good news, well rounded merger on all sides this helps everyone. I am happy with this... No doubt with Blizzards help this company will reign supreme for many years.

A-Blizzard? I love it... This is only good news, well rounded merger on all sides this helps everyone. I am happy with this... No doubt with Blizzards help this company will reign supreme for many years.