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Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:26:51 Ben Gilbert The one that immediately comes to mind is Activision Blizzard selling the Overwatch League bids.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55 Ben Gilbert Mitch was also an executive vice president at both EA and Activision, and took his own gaming company, Jamdat, public in 2004.
- ▶ 7:47 Mitch Lasky because those of us who had worked as competitors to Nintendo in the console business, and I did for a part of my career when I was running the studios at Activision,
- ▶ 12:45 Mitch Lasky And I mean, this was right around the time Bobby was taking over Activision when he and Steve Wynn basically, financed by Steve Wynn, Bobby was, was, was buying Activision.
- ▶ 12:58 Mitch Lasky I don't know if you guys have done an Activision episode.
- ▶ 13:03 Mitch Lasky Because there was a, because he basically, Bobby crashed the cattleman's ball, and without an invite, and basically did it so that he could buttonhole Steve Wynn and get him to put the money up for the act to buy Activision out of…
- ▶ 13:30 Mitch Lasky Um, so when, when I was, when I worked at Disney, and then subsequently in my startup and at Activision, this was still kind of the geeky era of, you know, the serious video game business.
- ▶ 27:04 Blake Robbins You have Activision having their own launcher.
- ▶ 29:48 Mitch Lasky And you look at the Activision deal, sixty-nine billion dollar acquisition of Activision.
- ▶ 1:08:12 Mitch Lasky The joke at Activision back in the late nineties, early 2000, when I was working there was, there was a herd of 500,000 users who just migrated from one MMO to another, but the audience never grew, and then boom, World of Warcraft…
- ▶ 1:45:29 Mitch Lasky In the, in 1987, my wife, who is a game designer and worked at Activision for 15 years, but was a lawyer also, and we were in law school together, but we just basically like, you know, played video games all the time, so we bought an Amiga.
- ▶ 1:48:55 Mitch Lasky So, and then we, we bought our first console actually when she was interviewing for the job at Activision.
- ▶ 1:49:15 Mitch Lasky so she could study the Activision games before she went in for her interview.
- ▶ 1:53:02 Mitch Lasky Um, Hasbro made a run at Activision, little known fact, right?
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:49:56 David Rosenthal Money as a license when third parties like EA or Activision or, you know, Bungie or whomever sell games on your system.
- ▶ 2:10:28 David Rosenthal You know, people are worried about with the Activision deal about whether Microsoft would make Activision's games exclusive on Xbox.
- ▶ 2:10:54 Ben Gilbert And also, will they take your revenue if, like, let's say this Activision Blizzard thing goes through, do they want your revenue if you go play that game elsewhere?
- ▶ 3:02:24 Ben Gilbert So come join us, talk about the news of the day, we'll talk about acquisitions like Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard and Sony buying Bungie.