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Activision Blizzard Announces Self-Tender Offer
Jul 16, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVID) announced today the commencement of a tender offer to purchase up to 146,500,000 shares of its outstanding common stock at a price of $27.50 per share representing approximately 22% of Activision Blizzard's outstanding common stock as of July 9, 2008.
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Activision Announces Partnership with Metallica for First Ever Simultaneous Release of New Record "Death Magnetic" in Stores and for Download in Guitar Hero® Video Game
Jul 15, 2008
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Santa Monica, CA – July 15, 2007 – Activision Publishing (Nasdaq: ATVI) today revealed that Metallica's highly-anticipated full studio album, "Death Magnetic," will be available simultaneously in record stores and as downloadable content for the world's best-selling rhythm-based video game series, Guitar Hero®. Metallica fans will be abl...
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Activision Blizzard Announces Record First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Activision Stand-Alone Results
Jul 14, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVID) today announced that Activision's stand-alone preliminary financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, which ended on June 30, 2008, prior to the closing of the transaction with Vivendi, on July 9, 2008, were higher than Activision's prev...
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Activision Blizzard Announces Two-for-One Stock Split
Jul 11, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 11, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today that its Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split of its outstanding shares of common stock to be effected in the form of a common stock dividend.
Stockholders will receive one additional share for each share of common sto...
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Activision Blizzard Given Temporary Trading Symbol ATVID Until August 6, 2008
Jul 10, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATVID) announced that effective today the Nasdaq has given Activision Blizzard a temporary trading symbol of ATVID under which it will trade until August 6th, 2008. The "D" designation to the company's trading symbol was assigned by NASDAQ in order to reflect th...
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Vivendi and Activision Complete Transaction to Create Activision Blizzard
Jul 10, 2008
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PARIS & SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the completion of the transaction announced on December 2, 2007 to create Activision Blizzard, as the world's most profitable pure-play online and console game publisher. Activision Blizzard was formed by c...
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Activision Announces Golf: Tee It Up!(TM) Now Available on Xbox Live Arcade
Jul 09, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sink a hole-in-one with Activision, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:ATVI) Golf: Tee It Up!, now available for download on Xbox LIVE(R) Arcade for the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Developed by Housemarque, Golf: Tee It Up! allows players to design their own customizable characte...
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Activision Announces "Wee 1ST"; New Brand Focused on Titles Designed Specifically for Wii(TM)
Jul 09, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today unveiled a new consumer initiative to expand the company's Wii portfolio this Fall. Dubbed "Wee 1ST", the brand highlights the company's games that were developed specifically with the Wii in mind.
"The Wii is introducing new audiences to gaming," said D...
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Activision Stockholders Approve Combination with Vivendi Games
Jul 08, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 08, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that, at a special meeting of stockholders held earlier today, it received the stockholder approval necessary to consummate the company's agreement with Vivendi, S.A. to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business, with Acti...
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Guitar Hero(R): On Tour Sets Activision North American Retail Sales Record
Jul 03, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced Guitar Hero(R): On Tour has sold in excess of 300,000 units in North America in the first seven days since its launch, making it the largest North American launch for the Nintendo DS(TM) in the company's history by more than a factor of eight. In a...
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Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Motion Relating to Activision's Proposed Combination with Vivendi Games
Jul 02, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 02, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that the Delaware Court of Chancery has denied the Wayne County Employees' Retirement System's request for a preliminary injunction relating to Activision's proposed combination with Vivendi Games, Inc., the interactive entertainment business of Vi...
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Fans Experience 'Sweet Emotion' as Activision's Guitar Hero(R): Aerosmith(R) Rocks Retail Shelves Nationwide
Jul 02, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 02, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gamers and music fans alike are now free to unleash their inner-rockstar as the groundbreaking video game partnership uniting one of 2007's best selling video games and 'America's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band'--Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer--shred store shel...
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Activision Twirls Back into the Spotlight with Dancing with the Stars(TM): Get Your Dance On! for Wii(TM) and Nintendo DS(TM)
Jun 26, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jun 26, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today the Fall 2008 release of Dancing with the Stars(TM): Get Your Dance On!, the sequel to last year's rhythm-packed Dancing with the Stars(TM) videogame. They have once again teamed up with Disney-ABC Television Group's ABC Entertainment and BBC World...
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Aerosmith Launches New Guitar Hero(R): Aerosmith(R) Videogame Consumers Swarm Times Square to be the First to Play
Jun 25, 2008
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Jun 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc.:
WHAT: One of America's greatest rock bands of all time -
Aerosmith - will unleash the latest Guitar Hero fan
frenzy in Times Square during the launch of their first
videogame, Guitar Hero(R): Aerosmith(R). Steven Tyler,
Joe Pe...
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Guitar Hero(R) Hits the Road with the American Idols Live! Tour 2008
Jun 25, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jun 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- This summer, Activision, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:ATVI) Guitar Hero(R), the #1 best selling video game franchise of 2007, will go coast-to-coast with the American Idols Live! Tour 2008, kicking off in Glendale, Ariz. on July 1. The sponsorship fuses the two pop culture phenomenons together for a second ti...
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Activision's Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009 to Attack Multiple Gaming Platforms This Fall
Jun 25, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jun 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today the upcoming release of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009 for Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION(R)3 and PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment systems, and Wii(TM). The latest title in the best-selling Cabela's...
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Call of Duty(R): World at War Enlists for New Battles
Jun 23, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jun 23, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Leave your packs and bring extra ammo, Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATVI) (http://www.activision.com/) and Treyarch, announced today that they will be taking Call of Duty players deep into the South Pacific and European theaters this fall for Call of Duty: World at War(tm), a gritty fight that will ...
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Activision's Guitar Hero(R): On Tour for Nintendo DS(TM) Takes the Show on the Road to Retail Stores Nationwide
Jun 23, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jun 23, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- After playing to sold-out crowds in living rooms around the world, the blockbuster video game Guitar Hero is hitting the road with Guitar Hero(R): On Tour for Nintendo DS(TM), Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced. Available now at retail outlets nationwide, Guitar Hero: On Tour brings...
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Multi-Platinum Alternative Rockers Coldplay Debut New Single as Part of Downloadable Songpack for Guitar Hero(R) III: Legends of Rock
Jun 13, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jun 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The reflective and emotional chords of multi-award winning band Coldplay are making their debut on Activision, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:ATVI) Guitar Hero(R) III: Legends of Rock with the release of a three-track downloadable song pack.
Included in the song pack is the hit single "Violet Hill," from th...
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Break out of the Stadiums and onto the Streets in Activision's Upcoming Monster Jam: Urban Assault
Jun 10, 2008
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jun 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today the upcoming release of Monster Jam: Urban Assault. The genre-defining monster truck action in the original hit Monster Jam(R) has destroyed the stadium barriers and players will now be able to wreak havoc on city streets around the world. The game...
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