Activision Blizzard
Formerly Name: N/A
Company Profile: Holding Company
Company Type::
Subsidiary of Vivendi (2008-2013)
Public Company (2013-2023)
Subsidiary of Microsoft Gaming (2023)
Parent Company:
Vivendi (2008-2013)
Microsoft Gaming (2023)
Headquarters: Santa Monica, California, USA
Founded: 2008, July 9
Founder: Activision, Inc and Vivendi Games
Fate: Active
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.
Founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision, Inc. (the publicly traded parent company of Activision Publishing) and Vivendi Games, the company owns and operates additional subsidiary studios, as part of Activision Publishing, including Treyarch, Infinity Ward, High Moon Studios, and Toys for Bob. Among major intellectual properties produced by Activision Blizzard are Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk's, Spyro, Skylanders, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, and Candy Crush Saga. Under Blizzard Entertainment, it invested in esports initiatives around several of its games, most notably Overwatch and Call of Duty. Activision Blizzard's titles have broken a number of release records. As of March 2018, it was the largest game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization.
Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion on January 18, 2022. The acquisition was completed on October 13, 2023. Activision Blizzard is a subsidiary of Microsoft Gaming along with Xbox Game Studios and ZeniMax Media.
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Company Structure
Subsidiaries:
Activision:
Activision Shanghai Studio – Call of Duty series support studio
Beenox – Activision-era Spider-Man series, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Call of Duty series support studio
Demonware – Call of Duty series support studio
Digital Legends Entertainment
High Moon Studios – Darkwatch, Activision-era Transformers series, Call of Duty series support studio
Infinity Ward – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sub-series
Radical Entertainment – Prototype series, several games in the Crash Bandicoot series
Raven Software – Heretic series, Soldier of Fortune series, Singularity, Call of Duty: Warzone
Sledgehammer Games – One of three main developers of the Call of Duty series
Solid State Studios – Call of Duty series support studio
Toys for Bob – Crash Bandicoot series, Spyro series, Skylanders series, Call of Duty series support studio
Treyarch – Call of Duty: Black Ops sub-series, Activision-era Spider-Man series
Blizzard Entertainment:
Blizzard Albany – Blizzard Entertainment support studio, several games in the Crash Bandicoot series, several games in the Tony Hawk's series, several games in the Skylanders series
Blizzard Entertainment – Publishing label and main development team of the Warcraft series, StarCraft series, Diablo series, and Overwatch series, The Lost Vikings, and Heroes of the Storm. Developed and maintains Battle.net
Proletariat – Spellbreak, Blizzard Entertainment support studio
King:
King Publishing – Mobile games developer, publishing label and main development team of Candy Crush Saga series
Major League Gaming
Activision Blizzard Studios
Key People: Thomas Tippl (vice chairman)