Mobile game producer Gameloft and PC behemoth Ubisoft have both announced plans to fight a hostile takeover by Vivendi, the French conglomerate. We discussed these takeover attempts before here on An8BitMind, but to no one’s surprise, Gamesoft and Ubisoft are coming out...
GamesIndustry has an article out about moves from Vivendi, which you may remember recently divested itself of Activision/Blizzard stock. They’ve crossed the 30% shareholder platform, which in France means they have to submit a takeover bid for the remainder of the shares....
Vivendi has sold its remaining shares in Activision/Blizzard to an unknown buyer. The deal, ($1.1 Billion for 5.7% of the company) comes after seeing the stock grow 85% in the last year. Big move.. but it’s not the end of Vivendi in...
