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Activision Blizzard preannounces earnings that beat Wall Street estimates

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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After announcing a management-led buyout of its biggest shareholder, game publisher Activision Blizzard disclosed its preliminary earnings for the second quarter today. With the buyout of Vivendi, Activision Blizzard can now finally behave like the behemoth that it is: the largest independent publisher in the video game industry.

Activision Blizzard, producers of the best-selling Call of Duty series,  said it expects to report an estimated 8 cents a share on $608 million in non-GAAP revenue for the quarter. The earnings are slightly better than the 5 cents a share on $591 million in revenue that analysts expected.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.