Inside Mac Games (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
July 22, 2008 6:00 AM MVC has published a new interview with Activision Blizzard CFO Thomas Tippl. In the interview Tippl discusses the merger's impact on the new company including job cuts, autonomy of existing teams, and possible future game projects. How much autonomy is Blizzard going to retain and is there scope to use Activison and Vivendi's licences within that division?...
WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , News items Develop magazine got to talk to Thomas Tippl, who is Activision's CFO (we've heard a lot from CEO Bobby Kotick , but never from Tippl before) about the Activision Blizzard merger and how it will affect both companies. Tippl reiterates what we've heard before: that Activision has no plans to tell Blizzard how to do...
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The newly-merged Activision Blizzard may be planning to cut redundant staffers in areas where there's overlap with Activision and Vivendi, but the company plans to leave the Blizzard team untouched.Activision Blizzard CFO Thomas Tippl that it'd largely be business as usual for Blizzard. "It’s not like we need to go there and fix something," he said. "Blizzard will continue to operate...
Voodoo Extreme (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Thomas Tippl of Activision-Blizzard says the merger of Activision and Blizzard has left them with...
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
You can't smoosh multiple companies together (don't forget Sierra!) and expect everyone to keep their jobs. Not going to happen. There's always areas - whether it be the mailroom, the tea room or the boardroom - where you'll only need one person where previously there were two or three. And it's no different with the Activision/Blizzard merger, with ActiBlizz CFO Thomas Tippl telling...
