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Company offering to purchase up to 22% of its outstanding shares at $27.50 per share

Prior to its merger with Vivendi, Activision's Q1 2009 net revenues were $150 million higher than expected

Newly merged company confident of future growth, says Kotick

Janco Partners believes newly merged company is "stirring the pot" in front of EA

Blizzard, Neversoft, Infinity Ward all under new contracts following merger

New publishing company speculates on what might be possible

Share price rise since original offer announcement to make extra 16 per cent too costly

Activision Blizzard "marks the beginning of an important new chapter in the history of interactive entertainment," says Kotick

Activision Blizzard deal completes paving the way for the world's largest videogame publisher

Activision says it's their biggest DS title launch by a factor of eight and one of the top five launches ever

Merger with Vivendi will be closed next Wednesday if shareholders approve transaction at meeting

And the studio doesn't expect to lose Warcraft revenue to the recently announced Diablo III

Blizzard's Rob Pardo said that the MMO was originally intended to be an ad-supported free-to-play game

Activision's CEO speaks out against the business practices of its main rival publisher

The EU has concluded its inquiry, granting permission for Vivendi to merge with Activision

Halo-beating online numbers for Xbox 360, with PS3 stats "monstrously huge," according to producer Mark Rubin

Trion World Network founder and CEO Lars Buttler has responded to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick's suggestion that it would take a billion dollar investment to be competitive with World of Warcraft

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said that he thinks it would take an investment of half a billion to a billion dollars to take on World of Warcraft - and even then, success isn't guaranteed.

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium 2008 Conference, Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick said that Take-Two did not fulfull the company's acquisition requirements

An investment group has sued Activision over its impending merger with Blizzard, alleging that the company directors failed to obtain the best deal

Following strong financial results in the past couple of weeks from both Activision and Vivendi Games, one analyst predicts that following the planned merger of the two companies, fiscal 2009 profits could add up to as much as USD 1.38 billion.

Vivendi's approved loan of EUR 3.5 billion for the deals including the Activision Blizzard merger and the acquisition of telecoms company Neuf Cegetel, announced last week, has had its backing syndicate expanded.

The completion of the Activision Blizzard deal has moved a step closer with the news that Vivendi has secured funding to the tune of EUR 3.5 billion

Activision executives Robert Kotick and Brian Kelly stand to make around USD 40 million between them as a result of the deal to merge Activision with Vivendi Games, thanks to their current shareholding in the company.

Stock in Activision rose by nearly 19 per cent across the past week, since Sunday's shock announcement that it had agreed a deal to merge with Vivendi Games.