Activision + Blizzard = divide by zero

[General Vivi]

This is news to me.....

[KungFuSquirrel]

I don't see much good coming of this. Activision is probably the most shameless in terms of wanting its devs to crank out the same franchised shit year after year. You know they won't want Blizzard to do anything other than something with the name Starcraft, Warcraft or Diablo for the next 10 years.

With the amount of cash coming in from Blizzard and Vivendi holding the majority stake in the 'new' company, I'm actually inclined to believe Blizzard when they say it'll be business as usual for them, much more so than when BioWare and Pandemic claimed the same thing regarding the EA purchase.

[Izuno]

If Blizzard had the abmition to be its own publisher it could be. I was at a holiday party on Friday with a bunch of industry people and all my friends from VUGames/Sierra kept saying how big 2008 was going to be for them and how they had some huge announcements coming soon. I have to admit I didn't see this coming, though.

[Mr. Happy]

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 group.

At least they have a creative new name for the company that just rolls of your tounge.

[Bic-B@ll]

perhaps a signal of the coming creativity of the new brand

[Sentura]

perhaps a signal of the coming creativity of the new brand

haha, don't make me laugh. both blizzard and activision exhausted their creativity/originality quota long ago.

[Mojo]

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 group.

At least they have a creative new name for the company that just rolls of your tounge.

This name just confuzzles me further. Yes I know they both want to keep their namesakes, but with a / or a - it just odd to me

[Pongles]

Dumbest name ever.

It appears preserving both brands (and lets face it, the "Blizzard" brand has become much bigger than "Viveridi" ... or however it was spelt) has come above having a decent name.

[PogoP]

I propose... ACTIZARD!

Or... Blizzavision!

[Cybbe]

I propose... ACTIZARD!

Or... Blizzavision!

Sounds like some sort of pokémon.

Then again... Their current name isn't much better

[aevirex]

I lol'd