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Blizzard-Activision Merger Official
The Washington Post's Mike Musgrove is reporting that the Blizzard-Activision merger is official as of yesterday afternoon. "One analyst has predicted that the merged company would make $1.38 billion in profits during its first financial year, enough to make Activision Blizzard the world's largest game publisher. [...] But this merger should give the newly-formed company enough heft to compete with EA for such blockbuster projects, said Pachter. 'It's good to have a duopoly instead of a monopoly,' he said. 'This just makes the industry that much more interesting.'"
In other news, thumbscrews said to be preferable to the rack.
Riverablo.
I sure hope Activision isn't stupid enough to mess around with the way Blizzard does things. Disney may be full of twats, but at least they knew better than to screw with Pixar after buying them. Let's hope that Activision has the same sense.
What are you talking about? This is great. In fact, I'm downloading a demo of Blactivision's newest title, Tony Hawk's Streets of Warcraft, right now.
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Don't discredit Activision. They _do_ have some of the best titles out for Atari.
There's no way that'll be as good as Guitarcraft Hero III: Call of Doom 2.
...are they going to call it Blahctivision or (my favourite) Actilizzard?
I think this means John Madden is now the final boss you face in Diablo 3
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Damnit old man! I got off your lawn like 20 minutes ago. Would you please stop shouting now?
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
Before this merger, Diablo 3 was going to be released at an indefinite time in the future. Now it'll be released "when it's done".