Trion World Network founder and CEO Lars Buttler has responded to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick's suggestion that it would take a billion dollar investment to be competitive with World of Warcraft
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said that he thinks it would take an investment of half a billion to a billion dollars to take on World of Warcraft - and even then, success isn't guaranteed.
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium 2008 Conference, Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick said that Take-Two did not fulfull the company's acquisition requirements
Following strong financial results in the past couple of weeks from both Activision and Vivendi Games, one analyst predicts that following the planned merger of the two companies, fiscal 2009 profits could add up to as much as USD 1.38 billion.
Vivendi's approved loan of EUR 3.5 billion for the deals including the Activision Blizzard merger and the acquisition of telecoms company Neuf Cegetel, announced last week, has had its backing syndicate expanded.
Activision executives Robert Kotick and Brian Kelly stand to make around USD 40 million between them as a result of the deal to merge Activision with Vivendi Games, thanks to their current shareholding in the company.
Stock in Activision rose by nearly 19 per cent across the past week, since Sunday's shock announcement that it had agreed a deal to merge with Vivendi Games.
Following the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, Electronic Arts has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that there is always a possibility of further acquisitions by the publishing giant.
The value of both Activision and Vivendi's stock increased during the first day of trading following the announcement of a merger between the two companies
The simExchange analyst Jesse Divnich, commenting upon the Activision/Vivendi merger, thinks that acquisitions by media conglomerates have a negative effect on creativity and orginality
A fact sheet on the newly-live Activision Blizzard web site seems to have announced the forthcoming release of Call of Duty 5 and Guitar Hero IV - both titles that have previously not been mentioned.
Piers Harding-Rolls, senior games analyst at Screen Digest, has told <i>GamesIndustry.biz</i> that the Activision Blizzard merger is a sound one, and could lead to more deals in the future, providing they make good business sense.