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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.'"
How about this one...
Diablo 3 ends with a guitar battle against Lou^H^H^HSatan?
Actually, that could be pretty cool.
Previously, there were three big companies, EA, Activision, and Blizzard.*
Just because Blizzard prints money with World of Warcraft it doesn't mean that they are "big". They have a total of three game franchises: Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft line. That's it. That's hardly a lot compared to EA or Activision who each have gazillions of franchises. Take out WoW from the equation and suddenly Blizzard doesn't look that impressive at all.