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Video game giant Activision Blizzard announced Friday that it has bought itself back from parent company Vivendi for US$ 8.2 billion.

Not exact matches

Activision has followed the pattern it established with Call of Duty by enlisting a second developer, Vicarious Visions, to create games like Skylanders: Swap Force in tandem with Toys For Bob, which came up with the idea and is behind Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Skylanders: Giants and the new Skylanders: Trap Team game.

According to video game research firm Newzoo, game sales of Activision's (ATVI) 2013 title Skylanders Swap Force sold about 3.9 million copies to date, slightly lower than the 2012 Skylanders Giants version at 4.65 million, which was comparable to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure sales in 2011.

Blizzard Entertainment, one half of giant gaming company Activision Blizzard, is creating an ambitious new eSports league for its «Overwatch» shooter game, The Verge reports.

The next iteration in the Skylanders franchise, Skylanders Giants, is coming to mobile platforms in addition to the Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, and Wii, publisher Activision has confirmed at E3, according to a Pocket Gamer post...

Activision confirms Skylanders Giants, Transformers Prime, that stupid Wipeout 3 game and 007 Legends for the Wii U.

Schafer's likely drawing from his own dealings with the publishing giant; following dropping the game themselves, Activision attempted to block Brütal Legend «s release by competing publisher EA.

Yesterday, Activision accused rival games giant EA of all sort of skullduggery while suing them for...

Those who are returning to the world of Skylanders can use characters from Spyro's Adventure or Giants to play as Activision has enabled Skylander fans to use their previous figures in this latest version of the game, 3DS version included.

The complex deal will give Vivendi a 52 percent stake in a new industry giant called Activision Blizzard with annual revenue of $ 3.8 billion, rivaling that of Electronic Arts Inc, the world's biggest independent game publisher.

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) have posted their earnings for the quarter ending December 31, and, unsurprisingly, the video game publishing giant had a (mostly) happy holiday.

Yesterday was a bit a wild ride for video game publishing giant Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI).

So when Eutechnyx took over the license for the NASCAR game series, Activision assumed that no one outside the US would be remotely interested in repeadedly turning left around a giant oval for hours - on - end.

Skylanders Giants comes as the second iteration of what will likely become a yearly franchise for at least the foreseeable future from Activision and developer Toys for Bob that adds some new gameplay dynamics and, more importantly, a slew of new figures for gamers to collect.

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Activision did that with Skylanders Giants with Hot Head from wave 2 hitting Toys R Us on the same launch date as the game.

Activision noted that Skylanders Giants is «the number one best - selling console and handheld game overall in dollars for the first six months of 2013» in both North America and Europe when considering sales that include accessories (in other words, when considering Skylanders» massive toy sales).

Activision also announced that Skylanders Giants was highest - grossing game of 2013, generating more money than any other game so far (even if other games sold more copies).

Surely, the overlap of both Fortnite and the Marvel Cinematic Universe will lead to the title having many more promotional crossover outings such as this later on down the line, for even the publishing giant Activision Blizzard has acknowledged that the game is a force to be reckoned with.

Gamescom has delivered some new assets for Activision's upcoming Skylanders Giants game.

And now, Giant Bomb has somehow snagged an internal email sent to all Activision employees by Hirshberg, where he addresses the leak personally, the investigative measures being taken and the detrimental effect it may potentially have on the game's launch.

Activision today formally revealed Crusher, one of four Skylanders Giants Giant characters expected to be available to purchase when the game ships on October 21.