The 7th gen timeline of gaming company closings, mergers and layoffs

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Just for the sake of clarity, Activision was merged with Vivendi Games and not the parent company Vivendi which owns 54% of the stock in the new Activision Blizzard company. This is why Blizzard continues to be able to do what ever the hell they feel like regardless of what Activision want them to do.