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- Mediagenic quickly fell into debt, and the company was bought for around US$500,000 by Bobby Kotick and a small group of investors around 1991. Kotick drastically revamped and restructured the company to get it out of debt: dismissing most of its staff, moving the company to Los Angeles, and reverting to the Activision name.
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Jan 7, 2017 · By far the most widely mocked of Davis’s unilateral decisions was that of changing the name of Activision in May of 1988 to Mediagenic. He claimed the new name would free the company of the baggage of its storied early years, would emphasize that this latest incarnation was far removed from the one that had so successfully sold videogame ...
2 days ago · It has been one year since Microsoft finally acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn, making history as the biggest company buyout in the video games industry to date.
Oct 1, 2010 · Activision started out as a creative powerhouse for the Atari 2600. Three decades later, it looms large as an industry titan with mega-brands like Call of Duty and Guitar Hero. How did it happen?
Jun 8, 2000 · In 1991, Mediagenic filed for bankruptcy, eventually they changed their name back to Activision and in 1993, they surfaced again. Since then, Activision has been turned into the second largest publishing company in the United States.
Oct 13, 2023 · Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£56bn) takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard in the gaming industry's biggest ever deal. It comes as Microsoft, which owns the Xbox gaming console,...
The original Activision company was founded in 1979, as a third-party developer for games on the Atari Video Computer System. In 1988 the company expanded into non-gaming software and renamed itself Mediagenic. This venture was not successful, incurring heavy losses.
Oct 13, 2023 · After indicating its provisional approval on Sep. 22, The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority formally cleared Microsoft to close its acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Oct. 13, with the...
