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Gnizmo on 02 December 2007
Soriku said:
This is what she says:

Q: "I had a feeling that Activision would do something outlandish to prevent them from losing money and announcing the formation of a conglomerate on Sunday is that."

Hmm? You're wrong in this statement. Vivendi bought 52% of Activision. Activision didn't do anything.

A: kirolos: "Under the terms of the agreement, Vivendi Games will be merged with a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision."

 http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071202005054&newsLang=en

Vivendi to Contribute Vivendi Games Valued at $8.1 Billion, Plus $1.7 Billion in Cash in Exchange for Approximately 52% Stake in Activision Blizzard at Closing; Total Transaction Valued at $18.9 Billion

 

Vivendi games division is gone to Ativision, but Vivendi now owns the whole thing.  I am betting this is more a plan for Vivendi to get their games division to be useful for something other than the next Blizzard title.



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shio on 02 December 2007

@Gnizmo

Actually I'm right, Blizzard never ported to consoles. They outsourced it. Atleast I'm sure they outsourced both Starcraft and Diablo console versions. I don't know if they did it to Warcraft 2 too. One thing to note though is that no Blizzard game has been ported to consoles since 2000.

The Warcraft game that Surfergirl is referring for a 2009 release would be either a port of World of Warcraft to consoles, or WoW 2 for PC/MAC. both seem unlikely to happen, especially a console WoW port because, let's be honest, it's gameplay is impossible on a gamepad, and if she's thinking they would port it for the consoles owners who happen to have a kb/m too, then she's being deluded.
The other choice would be WoW 2. But that also seems unlikely. Maybe an expansion pack with an overhaul on the graphics is possible, to make a transition between WoW1 and 2.



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lenardo on 03 December 2007

won't be a wow2- period end of story. why?

no need.

will there be another mmo by blizzard- yep. just not warcraft lore based.

they have more than 3 teams...more like 5 now. they used to have 2 teams.



sieanr on 03 December 2007

Surfer Girl doesn't make any amazing predictions... its all common sense and other rumors that have been floating around.



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ssj12 on 03 December 2007
blaydcor said:
Any credibility Surfer Girl had just dissappeared when she criticized Blizzard. I would typically do a point by point rebuttal of each of her inane criticisms, but I just don't have it in me. One thing; naznatips hit the nail on the head when he dismissed her prediction of a new Syphon Filter. What's she going to "heads-up" us about next, a new Megaman Battlenetwork (Starforce, whatever) Game next year for the DS?

I hate WoW but i agree. Diablo 3 will be aesome jsut like Starcraft 2 (which is popular in America zomg).

Also, I hope what she said is true. Warcraft IV; Drools



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misteromar mk4 on 03 December 2007
sieanr said:
Surfer Girl doesn't make any amazing predictions... its all common sense and other rumors that have been floating around.

Agreed, I dunno how or why "surfer girl" got a following, any cat that follows gaming news and such, could come with the stuff it does. Most prob better.



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ShastaMasta on 03 December 2007

i'm waiting for surfer girl to reveal nintendo is making another game with mario in it



johnsobas on 03 December 2007

please, don't make diablo 3



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smallflyingtaco on 03 December 2007

Never really heard anything realistic on Diablo III. I would love to see it, as Diablo II was the last game Blizzard made that I really liked -- used a day of vacation for it, but this hardly sounds convincing.



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konnichiwa on 03 December 2007

Rofl Soriku will never give up XD.