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Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Trade | No Comments »
According to Kotaku, Activision Blizzard has announced a two-for-one stock split. This means that the number of Activision Blizzard shares will double, encouraging new investors to purchase the half-price stock while ... Read more..Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Trade | No Comments »
According to this Variety report, senior execs at Blizzard, Neversoft and Infinity Ward have all been signed into the newly-formed Activision Blizzard on five-year contracts. From the piece: CEO Bobby Kotick ... Read more..Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Internet, Rhythm action, Trade | 4 Comments »
Um. Right. According to this FT piece, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has just confirmed that the company is to launch a Guitar Hero-linked music download service that could rival iTunes. "I ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Trade, UK | No Comments »
In case you'd forgotten, Activision shareholders are voting today on whether to approve the Vivendi merger and create the world's largest games publisher. The City is excited by the prospect, and ... Read more..Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, America, Trade | No Comments »
According to this Kotaku piece, citing an SEC filing, the Activision board has approved a $3,079,798 bonus for Bobby Kotick. Co-chairman Brian Kelly has been granted a meagre $2,996,556. They had to ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Trade, UK | 4 Comments »
The UK has become a promised land for gaming – a flagship for a Europe now easily comparable to America and Japan as a market. Even so, in an interview with ... Read more..Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Development, EA, Trade | No Comments »
EA communications boss Jeff Brown has claimed that no one at EA took seriously a comment from Activision boss Bobby Kotick that EA "did a very good job of taking ... Read more..Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in America, Microsoft, Nintendo, Retail, Sony, Trade | No Comments »
Activision boss Bobby Kotick reckons that general rises in the cost of living in the US may force console manufacturers to bring down prices. "With the rising costs of fuel and ... Read more..Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Development, EA, Trade | No Comments »
In an interview with Conde Nast Portfolio, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has said that EA's consumes the souls of the studios it... consumes. Activision, obviously, does nothing of the sort. "It’s ... Read more..Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Music, PS3, Rhythm action, Wii, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Speaking in this Seeking Alpha interview, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has pointed out that the merger between the Guitar Hero publisher and Vivendi gives access to the Universal Music catalogue, ... Read more..Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PS3, Rhythm action, Wii, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
Speaking in the May issue of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has admitted that Guitar Hero is likely to go down the Rock Band path of including ... Read more..Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, EA, MMO, PC, Trade | No Comments »
Lars Buttler, formerly the VP of for global online at EA and currently the CEO and co-founder of Trion World Network, has called out Activision boss Bobby Kotick on his ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, MMO, Mac, PC, Trade | 13 Comments »
Activision boss Bobby Kotick has said that he thinks it would take an investment of half a billion to a billion dollars to combat WoW, and even then success wouldn't ... Read more..
