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Activision
Sign in to saveActivision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher in 2016.
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Activision is a company that was established on October 1, 1979. Its legal name is Activision Publishing, Inc. The organization is currently active and operates within the United States. Specifically, it is located in Santa Monica.
The entity is registered in the jurisdiction of Delaware. Its official website is titled "Activision | Home." The content on this site contains 19,209 characters. The page is not grounded.
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Key facts
- Company.name
- Activision Publishing, Inc.
- Company.logo
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- Company.logo_caption
- Logo used since 1979
- Company.image
- 2701 Olympic Boulevard.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Current headquarters in Santa Monica in 2025 (shared with parent company Activision Blizzard)
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.industry
- Video games
- Company.hq_location
- 2701 Olympic Blvd
- Company.hq_location_city
- Santa Monica, California
- Company.hq_location_country
- US
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Rob Kostich (president)
- Company.products
- List of Activision video games
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- See
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- subsidiary company
- Official name
- VSync, Inc.
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- David Crane
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica
- Owned by
- Activision Blizzard
- Parent organization
- Activision Blizzard
- Subsidiary
- Demonware
- Industry
- video game industry
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation
- Official website
- www.activision.com
- Image
- Activisionheadquarters.jpg
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- Commons category
- Activision
- inception
- 1979-10-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Activision
- official blog URL
- blog.activision.com
- product or material produced
- software
- member of
- Wi-Fi Alliance
- social media followers
- 173000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +1-310-255-2000
- privacy policy URL
- www.activision.com/de/legal/privacy-policy
- terms of service URL
- www.activision.com/legal/terms-of-use
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding (1979)
- Early years (1980–1982)
- The video game market crash (1983–1988)
- Mediagenic (1988–1991)
- Purchase by Bobby Kotick (1991–1997)
- Growth and acquisitions (1997–2008)
- Merger with Vivendi Games (2008)
- Post-merger developments (2009–2022)
- Purchase by Microsoft (2023–present)
- Studios
- Former studios
- Notable games published
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- Awards
- See also
- References
- External links
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher in 2016.
The company was founded as Activision, Inc. on October 1, 1979, in Sunnyvale, California, by former Atari, Inc. programmers for the popular Atari Video Computer System (later renamed to Atari 2600) home video game console. Upset at their treatment by Atari, they left to develop games for the same system. Activision was the first independent, third-party, console video game developer. The video game crash of 1983, in part created by too many new companies trying to follow in Activision's footsteps without the experience of Activision's founders, hurt Activision's position in console games and forced the company to diversify into games for home computers, including the acquisition of Infocom. After a management shift, with CEO Jim Levy replaced by Bruce Davis, the company renamed itself to Mediagenic and branched out into business software applications. Mediagenic quickly fell into debt, and the company was bought for around by Bobby Kotick and a small group of investors around 1991.
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