Filed under: Business Vivendi Games, soon to merge with Activision and become the goliath Activision Blizzard, saw its sales fall 24% from Q1 last year, thanks to the...
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No WoW causes Vivendi Q1 sales to drop 24%
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Vivendi Q1 net income down 9.6% on lower video game sales
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French telecoms and media group Vivendi reported a 9.6% drop in profits for the three months ending 31 March 2008, attributing the downturn to lower sales volumes at its...
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WoW expansion coming this year...polar bear mounts included?
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I hear some people who play World of Warcraft still have social lives and care about things other than epic raids, and this does my heart good, as I worry that gamers are...
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Blizzard Made $295M Last Quarter, Wrath of the Lich King Dated For Second Half Of '08 [Warcraft Gold]
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Vivendi Games, which contributed some $340 million to its parent company's "very good" first quarter, continues to place much of its success on Blizzard Entertainment....
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Vivendi Games Sales Fall 24% In WoW-Expansionless Q1
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Vivendi has announced its first quarter results, showing a 24 percent drop in sales in its games division over the year prior -- a period which saw the release of WoW...
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Interview: Terminal Reality? Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts
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A little over a year ago, Slovenian developer Zootfly made a big splash with gameplay videos of an in-development game based on Ivan Reitman's classic film Ghostbusters -...
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Rockstar president sees appeal in EA alliance
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Even though Take-Two is still busy fending off Electronic Arts' hostile takeover bid, Rockstar Games' Sam Houser apparently sees some appeal in working under EA's...
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Three reasons why gamers should care about the ESA
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[Editor's note: HarassmentPanda gives us the lowdown on the Entertainment Software Association and what it means to all of us. It's a very informative read and is a very...
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Universal Music Group: God, Do We Love Amy Winehouse! [Silicon Alley Insider]
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Universal Music Group solves the "how are we ever going to sell music again" riddle: Just find a starlet who spends equal amounts of time in trouble and in the tabloids....
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Breaking: Activision and Vivendi discontinue ESA membership
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Filed under: Business We've just learned that Activision and Vivendi Games has discontinued its membership with the Entertainment Software Association. This information...
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Vivendi ain't afraid of no promotion
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Filed under: Fan stuff Vivendi has the right idea when it comes to marketing their upcoming Ghostbusters game. What they did was take this Ecto-1 (which, if you haven't...
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EU Gives Blizzard Activision Its Blessing [Activision Blizzard]
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Today the European Commission granted French telecom and media group Vivendi permission to merge its videogame unit with Activision, thus bringing to fruition the merger...
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Surviving High School
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Mobile phone games usually pass me by, but this is interesting ...Vivendi's blockbuster IP game, "Surviving High School," now in its third iteration, gives...
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Rockstar's Houser talks EA takeover
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Filed under: Business In a recent piece about Rockstar Games' head honcho, Sam Houser, The Wall Street Journal probes the mind of the "secretive, demanding workaholic"...
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BREAKING: Activision and Vivendi Jump Ship From ESA
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The Entertainment Software Association, the trade association which represents US game publishers, is losing Activision and Vivendi as member companies. UPDATE:...
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European Union Approves Activision/Vivendi Merger Deal
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The European Commission has approved the high-profile $9.85 billion merger of video game publishers Vivendi and Activision, allowing the creation of the resultant company...
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EU greenlights Activision-Vivendi merger
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Filed under: Business The European Commission has given permission to the games division of French telecom and media group, Vivendi, to run free into the arms of...
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Vivendi Games to release The Legend Of Spyro: Dawn Of The Dragon this autumn, assets revealed
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Fans of the fire-breathing purple dragon, behold! Vivendi Games has just announced that they will be releasing the next title after The Legend of Spyro: Eternal Night....
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ESA Confirms Activision/Vivendi Departure [Breaking]
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The Entertainment Software Association told Kotaku today that both Activision and Vivendi are no longer a part of the industry trade organization, confirming a rumor we...
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Activision and Vivendi Break From ESA [Rumor]
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Yesterday word broke that Activision was one of what might be several companies not attending this year's E3 Media and Business Summit. Today I've heard that neither...