Monday, September 15, 2008
The Entire D6 Interview With Activision’s Bobby Kotick (1 of 3)
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.
Here’s an interview I did with Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick about the state of the gaming business.
It’s a good week to focus on the gaming industry since Electronic Arts abandoned its hostile acquisition bid for Take-Two Interactive over the weekend.
The move was–in part–in answer to Activision’s recent merger with Vivendi Games, which includes Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, one the most popular multi-player games. This has made Activision one of the gaming industry’s largest companies, due to some of its well-known franchises, especially its hugely popular Guitar Hero, which debuted version IV at D6.
