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Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units: Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, Major League Gaming, and Activision Blizzard Studios.
Oct 26, 2023 · As we begin an exciting new chapter in our company’s history, we wanted to look back at some of the major milestones, groundbreaking games, and key moments from the past few decades that defined us.
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Activision Blizzard’s history goes back more than 40 years. Our path to industry leadership started from humble beginnings. Two incredible gaming brands, Activision and Blizzard Entertainment, merged, bringing together the best creative talent in gaming.
Blizzard Entertainment is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software, and the company is renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games, including World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, StarCraft®, and Diablo®.
In 2008, this holding company merged with Vivendi Games (the parent company of Blizzard Entertainment) and formed Activision Blizzard, with Kotick as its CEO. Within this structure, Activision manages numerous third-party studios and publishes all games besides those created by Blizzard.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded in February 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: [1] Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham.
Oct 22, 2010 · Nearly nine years later Vivendi merged its games division with Activision to form Activision Blizzard, the company we know in its present form.
