King Answers The Call
Candy Crush maker King developing Call of Duty mobile game
Casual game publisher's Stockholm studio takes the reigns
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Activision Blizzard
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Activision Blizzard, formerly Activision, is the American holding company for Activision and Blizzard Entertainment. The company is majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi, and was created through the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games (formerly Vivendi Universal Games), announced on December 2nd, 2007.
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Head of Activison Blizzard Media
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Chief strategy officer
Bobby Kotick
CEO
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senior animator
Daniel Alegre
COO & President
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Up In The Air
Com2uS enters deal with Activision to develop Skylanders mobile game for 2018
Activision provides the license, Com2uS does everything else
Activision Blizzard Financials Q4 Fy16
King makes up nearly 25% of Activision Blizzard's $6.6 billion in sales for 2016
MAUs fall but players are more engaged
Sweet For Success
King records three top 20 grossing mobile games for nearly three years straight
MAUs fall slightly to a still impressive 394 million
Activision Blizzard Financials
King brings in $454 million and 409 million MAUs for Activision Blizzard following acquisition
Another non-Candy Crush game due out later this year
What's Next?
King to release two non-Candy Crush titles in 2016
Group synergies
Creative Accounting
Estimates suggest King may have stabilised its revenue decline
Very simple math
Discontinuous
Stripping out King stub revenues, Activision Blizzard sees FY16 Q1 mobile sales down 58% to $36 million
Up and down
King Acquired
Activision Blizzard completes acquisition of King for $5.9 billion
Creates the "largest game network in the world"
What's Next?
Mobile Mavens debate the value of the deal and the future of mobile games in the Activision Blizzard King era
Big boys at play
Good, Bad, Hopeful
What Newzoo, App Annie and IHS think about Activision Blizzard's $5.9 billion King deal
Talking heads
Best Available Deal
Why Activision Blizzard bought King, not Zynga, Glu or Kabam
Big bucks
Takes The Crown
Activision Blizzard to buy King for $5.9 billion
All cash deal will close in Spring 2016
The Charticle
20 million players strong, has a post-Naxxramas Hearthstone sustained at the top of iPad's top grossing charts?
A champion in the making?
Blizzard: Hearthstone on iPad was a "significant undertaking"
But touchscreen play reaches audiences other platforms can't
Making Of
Nerfing rogues and gaming grans: The making of Hearthstone
Bringing Battle.net to a whole new platform
Hearthstone helps offset sagging profits as Activision Blizzard's digital business booms
Digital sales make up over a third of quarterly revenue
Mobile Mavens
Firing blanks: Is there any hope for the FPS on mobile?
Our Mavens debate
Candy Crush ‘tops out’ as the industry once again focuses on core gamers
Blizzard's Hearthstone part of a ‘new volley’ of branded blockbusters
Nintendo, Sony, EA and Ouya all bound for Game Connection America 2014
Hitting San Francisco this March
The Blast Furnace under fire from Activision, future of the UK studio unclear
Activision not retreating from mobile
We're thoughtful, not like the competition, paying crazy prices for companies, says Activision Mobile VP Canessa
Organic growth and building internal capabilities
Touchscreen title tops Activision's $175,000 indie games competition
Iron Dragon takes home the cash
Activision partners with Flurry to launch publishing initiative for indies
iOS and Android the targets
Activision's UK mobile studio reportedly bound for Leeds
Ex-Rockstar bosses on board
Back At It
Activision unveils UK rebirth with new mobile-focused studio
Giant now recruiting in north of England
Activision releases ProtoSlice on iOS to promote upcoming console sequel Prototype 2
Teamed up with TwitchGames
Activision's CFO says it will invest in mobile and social development 'methodically'
Looking to avoid a bubble
No Modern Warfare on iPhone until Activision can guarantee it won't be app number 400,001
Hirshberg spells out mobile strategy
Activision plans further high margin iPhone releases in 2010
New Call of Duty DLC brings total game cost to $15