Activision shareholders to vote on Activision-Blizzard merger
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jun 9th 2008 at 4:00PM
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]
Filed under: Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Killah Jun 9th 2008 4:12PM
I laughed that that picture, really. Was it done on the Live realms?
Daniel Whitcomb Jun 9th 2008 5:37PM
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.
Todd Jun 9th 2008 4:30PM
All I can say is thank god it's not EA getting Blizzard.
Magenificent Jun 9th 2008 4:59PM
That picture is CLASSIC.
deviationer Jun 9th 2008 5:35PM
+1
Balgair Jun 9th 2008 8:42PM
No constructive comment to make about the story, just loved the pic and had to post to say so. Classic :-)
Dun Jun 10th 2008 6:25AM
That picture is awesome.
Asa Jun 10th 2008 8:28AM
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?