Vivendi Games

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Vivendi Games was a French video game publisher and holding company that owned studios like Blizzard Entertainment before merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Vivendi Universal Games 13
Vivendi Games canonical 5

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct company
holding company
video game publisher
businessModel holding of development studios
publishing
country France
defunctAfterMergerWith Activision Blizzard
surface form: Activision
distributedPlatform Nintendo platforms
PC
PlayStation
Xbox
headquartersLocation France
industry video games
languageOfPrimaryMarkets English
French
mergedInto Activision Blizzard
mergerPartner Activision Blizzard
surface form: Activision
notableLabel Blizzard
Sierra
notableSubsidiary Blizzard Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment
owned Blizzard Entertainment
Coktel Vision
Fox Interactive Media
surface form: Fox Interactive

High Moon Studios
Massive Entertainment
Nihilistic Software
Papyrus Design Group
Radical Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment
surface form: Sierra Online

Swordfish Studios
Universal Interactive
ownedFranchisePublisherOf Crash Bandicoot
surface form: Crash Bandicoot series

Diablo
surface form: Diablo series

Spyro the Dragon
surface form: Spyro the Dragon series

StarCraft
surface form: StarCraft series

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
surface form: Warcraft series

World of Warcraft
parentCompany Vivendi
predecessor Vivendi Games self-linksurface differs
surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
product video games
regionServed worldwide
resultOfMerger Activision Blizzard
status defunct

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Activision Blizzard foundedBy Vivendi Games
Blizzard Entertainment acquiredBy Vivendi Games
Vivendi Games predecessor Vivendi Games self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Crash Bandicoot publisher Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Sierra Entertainment parentCompany Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Universal Interactive parentCompany Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Universal Interactive successor Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Radical Entertainment acquiredBy Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Swordfish Studios parentOrganization Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Swordfish Studios acquiredBy Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Swordfish Studios workedWith Vivendi Games
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced publisher Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
The Bourne Conspiracy distributor Vivendi Games
Crash Twinsanity publisher Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Crash of the Titans distributor Vivendi Games
Universal Interactive Studios successor Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex publisher Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel distributor Vivendi Games
this entity surface form: Vivendi Universal Games