Posts Tagged ‘Blizzard’

Vivendi to sell Activision-Blizzard!?

June 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A few years ago, the purchase of Activision-Blizzard turned Vivendi in the biggest games company ever. Now, it seems like Vivendi is interested in selling off the games division.

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Activision to Acquire Glu!?

May 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

When Vivendi bought Activision to form Activision-Blizzard in July 2008, many expected Vivendi Mobile to become a dominant player in the mobile games space. Yet, the new entity decided to close Vivendi Games Mobile…

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Blizzard’s 2010 Mobile Preview

April 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox | No Comments »

It has already been confirmed to be an April Fool’s joke, but still we love to raise some attention to the effort Blizzard put into promoting their 2010 mobile games portfolio.

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Blizzard Launches first App

April 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

The past two years there has been a lot of speculation about why Blizzard was hiring mobile game developers. When Vivendi was acquired, all mobile gaming activities seemed to have been abandoned, but now there suddenly is an app on iTunes

And so Ends Vivendi Games Mobile

November 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today, we received a copy of an e-mail from Vivendi Games Mobile which went to it's European operators and other sales channels. In the e-mail, the company announces to stop the cooperation.