Activision Buyout?

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For all you publisher watchers out there, according to the business publication MCV UK, French publisher Ubi Soft is in early negotiations with Activision and RedStorm Entertainment for a buyout. The stock shares of Activision have been in a slump recently despite recently publishing Vampire from Nihilistic and having Return To Wolfenstein on the table. Its also interesting to note that Activision doesnt look like they will be publishing the new Doom title from id. Thanks to AVault for the story. The folks at Activision refused to comment.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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