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Activision Blizzard Says 'Diablo III' Coming This Spring - New 'Call of Duty' Out This Year
Fri Feb 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM ETTags: Mists of Pandaria, Heart of the Swarm, StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Activision Blizzard, Diablo III (all tags)
The 'StarCraft' and 'Warcraft' expansions will likely not be out until 2013.
Activision's quarterly report yesterday brought us some new information on upcoming games, though most of it isn't surprising and the stuff that is interesting won't put a smile on your face. Certainly not in the way a $4.76 billion revenue in 2011 made Activision Blizzard happy.
CEO Bobby Kotick announced that there will indeed be a new 'Call of Duty' game coming this year. In other news, publishers and developers really like money and will continue to cash in 'Tony Hawk' style until the 'Call of Duty' franchise is dead and gone. They're also working on a new version of Call of Duty Elite, which could prove to be interesting.
On the Blizzard side of things, 'Diablo III' will launch this year. It was expected in the first quarter of 2012 but the current estimate is Spring 2012. Blizzard will be talking more about the 'Warcraft' expansion 'Mists of Pandaria' at a press event in March and there's no indicator that the 'StarCraft' expansion 'Heart of the Swarm' will hit this year. Blizzard has said that they'll be more involved with eSports moving forward though, which is a welcome change.
Source: Joystiq
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Activision Blizzard Says 'Diablo III' Coming This Spring - New 'Call of Duty' Out This Year
Fri Feb 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM ETTags: Mists of Pandaria, Heart of the Swarm, StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Activision Blizzard, Diablo III (all tags)
The 'StarCraft' and 'Warcraft' expansions will likely not be out until 2013.
Activision's quarterly report yesterday brought us some new information on upcoming games, though most of it isn't surprising and the stuff that is interesting won't put a smile on your face. Certainly not in the way a $4.76 billion revenue in 2011 made Activision Blizzard happy.
CEO Bobby Kotick announced that there will indeed be a new 'Call of Duty' game coming this year. In other news, publishers and developers really like money and will continue to cash in 'Tony Hawk' style until the 'Call of Duty' franchise is dead and gone. They're also working on a new version of Call of Duty Elite, which could prove to be interesting.
On the Blizzard side of things, 'Diablo III' will launch this year. It was expected in the first quarter of 2012 but the current estimate is Spring 2012. Blizzard will be talking more about the 'Warcraft' expansion 'Mists of Pandaria' at a press event in March and there's no indicator that the 'StarCraft' expansion 'Heart of the Swarm' will hit this year. Blizzard has said that they'll be more involved with eSports moving forward though, which is a welcome change.
Source: Joystiq
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Vivendi Sells Off $427 Million of Activision Blizzard Stock
Thu Nov 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM ETTags: Blizzard, Activision, Vivendi, Activision Blizzard (all tags)
They're still majority shareholders in the game company, but analysts are questioning the move.
Vivendi, the French media conglomerate that owns StudioCanal, Interscope Records and a glut of other music, television and movie businesses has sold off a significant chunk of their share in Activision Blizzard. They've dropped from holding 63 percent of the stock to 60.
That may not sounds like a big difference, but that three percent equates to more than $400 million. Vivendi says it's nothing major though. " This is a tactical disposal with regards to our overall capital structure, and we remain committed to Activision and to being the main shareholder."
Talk around the financial circles is that the sale of the stock was to help pay for a $1.9 billion deal to buy EMI. Analysts don't get why though. As Claudio Aspesi of Bernstein Research puts it, "The wisdom of selling about three percent in a business that is one of the key bastions of growth for the group to aid a transformational acquisition in a challenged business, such as recorded music, seems questionable."
Source: Joystiq
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Vivendi Sells Off $427 Million of Activision Blizzard Stock
Thu Nov 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM ETTags: Blizzard, Activision, Vivendi, Activision Blizzard (all tags)
They're still majority shareholders in the game company, but analysts are questioning the move.
Vivendi, the French media conglomerate that owns StudioCanal, Interscope Records and a glut of other music, television and movie businesses has sold off a significant chunk of their share in Activision Blizzard. They've dropped from holding 63 percent of the stock to 60.
That may not sounds like a big difference, but that three percent equates to more than $400 million. Vivendi says it's nothing major though. " This is a tactical disposal with regards to our overall capital structure, and we remain committed to Activision and to being the main shareholder."
Talk around the financial circles is that the sale of the stock was to help pay for a $1.9 billion deal to buy EMI. Analysts don't get why though. As Claudio Aspesi of Bernstein Research puts it, "The wisdom of selling about three percent in a business that is one of the key bastions of growth for the group to aid a transformational acquisition in a challenged business, such as recorded music, seems questionable."
Source: Joystiq
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