Straight from the press release:
Vivendi to Contribute Vivendi Games Valued at $8.1 Billion, Plus $1.7 Billion in Cash in Exchange for Approximately 52% Stake in Activision Blizzard at Closing; Total Transaction Valued at $18.9 Billion
Activision Blizzard Will Commence Post-Closing Cash Tender Offer for Up to 146.5 Million of its Shares at $27.50 per Share, Representing 31% Premium for Activision Stockholders Based on 20-Trading Day Average
Today on video game soup, from gossip like … gossipers department, alleged Gamespot employee weighs in on the recent firing of CNET GameSpot editorial director Jeff Gerstmann, for supposedly giving a low score to a major advertiser’s game.
Believe it or not, make your own conclusion, here’s the comment from Valleywag.com.
This weekend, I decided to try out The Burning Crusade, for various reasons. Most importantly, I wanted to experience their expansion pack free trial process, see if we can learn something from it. It’s less than stellar so far, here’s what I had to go through (read: not pleasant).
Reported by Virtual Worlds News, it’s currently rumored that the Wii incarnation of Animal Crossing would not only be online enabled, but leaning more towards the virtual world model. All signs point to yes so far, and I will be jump on the opportunity to play that. The WiiConnect24 capability is woefully under utilized with the party games craze on Wii. There’s so much potential and so many possibilities, bigger and more than the PC. By design/definition the Wii is way more accessible to the average users than the PC. MySims could have done that, but alas it didn’t.
I do hope though, by then we actually get official Wii keyboard support. Right now it’s unofficial/unannounced and only work in certain places.
Today is Blog Action Day, an initiative trying to get everyone to write about the same issue today on their blogs. So in observance of that, let’s talk a little bit about that. With the upcoming Metaplace project, it seems it would be quite possible to develop a serious MMO about the environment. The challenge, of course, is how to make it fun. Here are some bullet points of my ideas:
That’s just some possibilities, like notes on a napkin. Now, someone go expand and make this because as I wrote the above points I am feeling that I want to play it 
Gods & Heroes, which just entered Beta recently, has announced that they are being put on hold “indefinitely” (read: dead). You can read the official statement on their website, here’s an excerpt:
The Perpetual team is faced with a unique challenge of simultaneously developing both Gods & Heroes and Star Trek Online in addition to growing our Online Game Platform business. After assessing all of Perpetual’s opportunities, we have made the decision to put the development of Gods & Heroes on indefinite hold.
G&H has been in development for a few years now. It’s a shame that it’s being scrapped. I am not in the beta but concept sounds neat. There are rumors flying around as usual that Perpetual’s not being managed properly. But it’s really very hard to be a small studio and trying to put out two MMOs (I experienced it myself).
I am anxiously waiting for some juicy bits from F13.net
Watch this. It’s brilliant. Much better than SOE spamming players in game this weekend about Legends of Norrath.
According to TechCrunch.com’s article, their sources told them that AOL’s planning to create a social network at its long-dormant domain name www.wow.com. No details have been given, or even confirmed by AOL/Blizzard yet, but this seems to be a perfectly good use of the domain.
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