One of the world's largest interactive entertainment companies, now part of Microsoft Gaming.
activisionblizzard.comParent
Microsoft Gaming
Microsoft Gaming CEO
Phil Spencer
Former CEO
Bobby Kotick (to 2023)
Founded
2008
Employees
~17,000Industry
Video Games
Revenue (FY2022)
US$7.53 Bn
Acquired by Microsoft
US$68.7 Bn (Oct 2023)
Headquarters
Santa Monica, California
Website
activisionblizzard.comActivision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company headquartered in Santa Monica, California. It was formed on 9 July 2008 through the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games (parent of Blizzard Entertainment), and later expanded with the 2016 acquisition of mobile-games maker King. Its three principal studios are Activision, Blizzard Entertainment and King, and it is home to franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, StarCraft and Candy Crush Saga.
On 13 October 2023, Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard (announced January 2022 at about US$68.7 billion), and the company was delisted from the Nasdaq (ticker ATVI). It now operates as a division under Microsoft Gaming, led by Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and sitting alongside Xbox Game Studios. Longtime President and CEO Bobby Kotick departed on 29 December 2023.
For fiscal year 2022 - its last full year as an independent public company - Activision Blizzard reported revenue of about US$7.53 billion. It employs roughly 17,000 people across its US and global studios. As a US-based company it has no material India office, so the salary and open-role data on this page reflect United States figures.
CEO, Microsoft Gaming
President, Microsoft Game Content & Studios
President, Blizzard Entertainment
Former President & CEO (2008-2023)
Interview experience
Favorable
Interview difficulty
Medium
Interview process length
About a week
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June 10, 2026
Xbox CEO unsure whether the Activision Blizzard merger is paying off
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma publicly declined to confirm the US$68.7B acquisition has proven worthwhile, calling it 'hard to say how to think about those decisions' given the deal closed pre-ChatGPT and during the pandemic - amid four rounds of gaming layoffs since the 2023 close.
#Microsoft #Gaming
View postNovember 14, 2025
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launches to mixed reception
Activision released Black Ops 7 (Treyarch and Raven Software) across PlayStation, Xbox and PC, day one on Game Pass. It drew mixed reviews and heavy review-bombing, finishing as only the fifth best-selling US title of 2025 - the franchise's weakest year-end rank since 2008.
#CallOfDuty #Launch
View postJuly 2, 2025
Microsoft cuts ~9,000 jobs, hitting gaming studios
Microsoft's largest gaming layoff wave cut roughly 9,000 employees company-wide, including about 200 at Candy Crush maker King (~10% of staff), the closure of The Initiative, and the cancellation of Everwild and the Perfect Dark reboot.
#Layoffs #Xbox
View postAugust 19, 2025
Black Ops 7 revealed at Gamescom with a November date
Activision fully revealed Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 at Gamescom, confirming a 14 November 2025 release and an October open beta, following an initial cinematic teaser at the June 2025 Xbox Games Showcase.
#CallOfDuty #Gamescom
View postJanuary 25, 2024
Microsoft lays off 1,900 gaming employees; Blizzard president exits
About three months after closing the acquisition, Microsoft cut 1,900 gaming jobs (~8% of the 22,000-person division), largely at Activision Blizzard. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra departed and a Blizzard survival game was cancelled.
#Layoffs #Blizzard
View postActivision Blizzard is one of the world's largest interactive entertainment companies, creating and publishing video games across its Activision, Blizzard Entertainment and King studios - including franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo and Candy Crush Saga.
