In Blizzard company news, another major milestone for the planned Blizzard-Activision merger is now set for July 8th, when a special meeting of Activision's shareholders will vote on their merger with Vivendi Games, Inc., the parent company of Blizzard. The meeting will take place in Beverly Hills, CA. So far, Activision's been clearing the hurdles to the merger nicely, and executives from both companies seem pretty excited about the deal, so It seems unlikely that the shareholders will balk too much (then again, there is that lawsuit).
The timing of this meeting is apparently later than expected according to sister site Big Download, but it is worth noting that it still beats out E3, which will take place on July 11th-13th. You'll recall that Blizzard and Activision dropped out of E3. Rumor has it that they are also planning to hold a press conference during E3, on the first day, and being able to reveal final details of when, where, and how the merger will complete during that press conference would be quite a coup, for sure.
[Via Big Download]
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6-09-2008 @ 4:12PM
Killah said...
I laughed that that picture, really. Was it done on the Live realms?
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6-09-2008 @ 5:37PM
Daniel Whitcomb said...
That actually came from a Tipster of ours who wished to remain anonymous, Killah. He didn't mention where he took the picture, only that he specifically created and leveled the Hunter for it. but either way, we all thought it was amusing here and were waiting for the perfect newspost to use it on.
6-09-2008 @ 4:30PM
Todd said...
All I can say is thank god it's not EA getting Blizzard.
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6-09-2008 @ 4:59PM
Magenificent said...
That picture is CLASSIC.
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6-09-2008 @ 5:35PM
deviationer said...
+1
6-09-2008 @ 8:42PM
Balgair said...
No constructive comment to make about the story, just loved the pic and had to post to say so. Classic :-)
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6-10-2008 @ 6:25AM
Dun said...
That picture is awesome.
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6-10-2008 @ 8:28AM
Asa said...
Is anyone else but me concerned over all these big game companies merging? Maybe I'm just overly anti-corporation, but I like the idea of many smaller companies serving us so that the games don't become diluted.
Like EA's recent attempts to buy out Take-Two (which worries me a lot more than Activision/Blizzard getting together). Haven't we as consumers learned that these mergers don't help us at all?
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