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Activision Blizzard
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American video game company
Key facts
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Traded as
- Nasdaq : ATVI (2008–2023)
- Industry
- Video games
- Predecessors
- Activision, Inc. Vivendi Games
- Founded
- July 9, 2008 ; 17 years ago ( 2008-07-09 )
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica, California , US
- Products
- Call of Duty series Crash Bandicoot series Guitar Hero series Skylanders series Spyro series Tony Hawk's series Diablo series Hearthstone Heroes of the Storm Overwatch series StarCraft series Warcraft series Candy Crush Saga
- Revenue
- US$ 7.53 billion (2022)
- Operating income
- US$1.67 billion (2022)
- Net income
- US$1.51 billion (2022)
- Total assets
- US$27.4 billion (2022)
- Total equity
- US$19.2 billion (2022)
- Number of employees
- 17,000 (2023)
- Parent
- Vivendi (2008–2013) Xbox (2023–present)
- Divisions
- Activision Blizzard Consumer Products Group, Activision Blizzard Esports, Activision Blizzard Media
- Subsidiaries
- Activision Blizzard Entertainment King
- Website
- activisionblizzard.com
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 2008
- Location
- Santa Monica, United States
- Status
- Active
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Described at
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Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 9000
- Revenue
- 7528000000
- Official website
- www.activisionblizzard.com
- Image
- Activisionheadquarters.jpg
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- described at URL
- activisionblizzard.substack.com
- inception
- 2008-07-10
- Commons category
- Activision Blizzard
- net profit
- 1513000000
- market capitalization
- 16400000000
- social media followers
- 187996
- operating income
- 1670000000
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Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. Activision Blizzard currently includes three operating units: Activision, Blizzard Entertainment and King.
Founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision, Inc. and Vivendi Games, the company owns and operates additional subsidiary studios, as part of Activision, including Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games. Among major intellectual properties produced by Activision Blizzard are Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, Skylanders, Spyro, Tony Hawk's, Diablo, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, StarCraft, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush Saga. Under Blizzard Entertainment, it invested in esports initiatives around several of its games, most notably Overwatch and Call of Duty. Activision Blizzard's titles have broken a number of release records. As of March 2018, it was the largest game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization.