Activision
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Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It is the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several su
Current headquarters in Santa Monica in 2025 (shared with parent company Activision Blizzard)
Co-founder David Crane in 2013
Carol Shaw, designer of River Raid, with a 1983 plaque marking 500,000 copies sold
Mediagenic's former headquarters in Menlo Park, c. 2021
Bobby Kotick
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Robert A. Kotick is an American businessman who was a founder and the chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard and its predecessor, Activision, from 1991 to 2023. In June 2017, Fortune reported
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…Mediagenic and branched out into business software applications. Mediagenic quickly fell into debt, and the company was bought for around US$500,000 by Bobby Kotick and a small group of investors around 1991. Kotick drastically revamped and restructured the company to get it out of debt: dismissing most of its…
Kotick in 2012