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...

Why does Activision/Blizzard make sense?. Even after all this time, I haven't figured it out. Can someone enlighten me? I know Activision has alot of good games under it's belt (publishing most of the Quake games, Battlezone, etc). Blizzard on the other...

Second Take: Console Piracy On The Rise?. With the pirated leak of Fallout 3 three weeks before its release date, Rob and Ben talk console piracy this time and how it how it affects the gaming industry as a whole. Watch Video: Do you think there was...

Second Take: Top 5 Games To Make Into MMOs. In light of recent whisperings about Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty MMOs, Ben and Rob choose they the games they think would make the best MMOs. Watch Video: What titles do you think should make the list?...

Arr! The Pirates have RETURNED!!!!! (Ninjas too). I wonder where my thread about Piracy went? Hmm, as if it never happened. It's almost like someone used a forum for what it was originally designed to do, foster debate. Apparently I'm not the only one...

will push the graphics cards to thier limits, they wont make the rquirements so high that few people can play it, thats just not good business. in fact the people that I know that work in the 'business' i.e. blizzard and activision, have told me what...

Blizzard. . Article written by Rob Wright. Activision is one of the world's largest video game publishers, and the company has been on a roll lately with the success of Guitar Hero III, Call of Duty 4, and its recent merger with Blizzard. I'd like...