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Gaming developers Activision (best known for Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and the Tony Hawk series, as well as Spider-Man, Shrek, James Bond and Transformers) and Blizzard (developers of  World of Warcraft) are merging in a deal worth $18.8 billion to be known as Activision Blizzard. 

According to BBC News, they are promoting the merger as the”world’s most profitable games business”.

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The new business will be hoping to benefit from both the rise in availability of gaming consoles as well as the emergence of advertising in games.