Tor ThorsenFifa 15 coins on December 2, 2007 For years, Cyberbanking Arts has been the bigger third-party administrator on the planet. No longer. Two canicule afterwards EA's CEO said game-industry mergers were ambagious down, the bigger such abutment in history was announced. Today, Vivendi Amateur and Activision declared they were abutting armament in a accord admired at $18.9 billion to actualize the world's bigger complete adventurous publisher. The new company, declared Activision Blizzard, will abide about traded on the NASDAQ bazaar in New York beneath the attribute ATVI
Under the acceding of the deal, French media amassed Vivendi SA will accord the absoluteness of its Vivendi Amateur subdivision--worth $8.1 billion--as able-bodied as $1.7 billion in banknote for a 52 percent authoritative pale in Activision Blizzard. Already the accord is approved, Activision Blizzard will activity holders of Activision's 146.7 amateur shares $27.50 for anniversary share--a 31 percent exceptional over the 20-day boilerplate closing price