Vivendi - The people that brought you Warcraft, WoW, Diablo, Starcraft, World In Conflict, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Empire Earth, Leisure Suit Larry, Ground Control and Tribes.

Activision - The people that brought you Pitfall, Quake, Call of Duty, Doom 3, Guitar Hero, and True Crime.

Find out what happens when you cross those streams after the jump.

The result: Activision Blizzard, the largest distributor of games in the world. With only a few signatures, they eclipsed EA’s empire and probably made Peter Moore crap his pants.

Is this another EA in the making? To soon to tell. Vivendi’s large music library might be the thing that saves Guitar Hero. The games that were still being developed before the merger are not being touched, so we’ll have to wait and see if they catch the EA cookie cutter fever.

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Activision and Vivendi’s 18.9 billion dollar merger bought it’s way to number 13 on Sarcastic Gamer’s Top 100 Gaming Moments of 2007.

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