Over the weekend, Activision and Vivendi announced their plans to merge, creating Activision Blizzard - the world’s largest video game publisher. Vivendi will contribute Vivendi Games (valued at $8.1 billion) and $1.7 billion in cash, for an approximated 52% stake of Activision Blizzard.
You could think that after 3 years, World of Warcraft popularity would be decreasing - but you would be wrong. Vivendi have just announced the sales figures for the 3rd quarter in which figures were up 19% to US$315.2 million. Probably the most earth shattering information release was that WoW currently has 9.3 million subscribers. That is more people playing WoW than the populations of Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Ireland or New Zealand.
via Kotaku
