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Activision First Tried To Buy Blizzard [Activision Blizzard]

Kotaku | by Luke Plunkett | Fri, Jul 11

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Activision Blizzard, that's a big company right there. And, technically, it's a merger. But things could have been so, so different. Instead of a union, it could have been a buy-out, with Activision originally interested in straight-up purchasing the WoW creators. Says Activision boss Bo...

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