The Activision/Blizzard merger has a lot of people thinking. Take-Two CEO Ben Feder amongst them. But it goes further than that: in the wake of the union, other publishers have seen their stocks rise, as the market anticipates/prays for another big merger to quickly follow. Infogrames – the unlucky bastards saddled with decomposing corpse Atari – saw their shares rise 7.7%, while Ubisoft saw theirs up 6.8%, prompting speculation EA might now be looking at increasing their stake in the French publisher.
[Reuters]