Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979 by MIT staff and students led by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Albert Vezza, and Joel Berez and lasted as an independent company until 1986 when it was bought by Activision.

The game, which became a hit, was produced by Activision ; a similar later game, whose title features similar alliteration, is Bonanza Bros. ( 1990 ).

The software license agreement for The Movies stipulates that Activision, the game's publisher, owns " any and all content within ... Game Movies that was either supplied with the Program or otherwise made available ... by Activision or its licensors ..." Some game companies provide software to modify their own games, and machinima makers often cite fair use as a defense, but the issue has never been tested in court.

In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them.

The Return to Castle Wolfenstein engine was subsequently used as the foundation for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory ( Splash Damage / Activision ), " Trinity " ( Gray Matter Interactive / Activision ) ( shown at E3 in 2004, but canceled shortly after ) and Call of Duty ( Infinity Ward / Activision ).

A sequel called Wolfenstein was developed by Raven Software and id Software and published by Activision, and released on August 18, 2009.

A licensed interactive fiction game based on the script was being developed for Infocom by Bob Bates, but was cancelled when Infocom was shut down by its then-parent company Activision.

Based in Oakhurst, California, the company was last owned by Activision, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.

Vivendi Games ceased to exist and ownership of Sierra was transferred over to Activision.

This was at a time when a substantial percentage of internet access was via dial-up, causing Activision to take the unusual step of offering to send CDs containing the patch to any owners of the game who did not have sufficient bandwidth to download it from the Internet.

Activision was founded by Atari programmers who left the company in because Atari did not allow credits to appear on the games and did not pay employees a royalty based on sales.

In November 2005, it was announced that BioWare and Pandemic Studios ( itself founded by former Activision employees ) would be joining forces, with private equity fund Elevation Partners investing in the partnership.

* A video game, Minority Report: Everybody Runs, published in 2002 by Activision, was based on the film.

The case was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and cited Activision, the game's distributor, as having exceeded contractual likenesses of the members of No Doubt.

A reimagining of the game, also titled GoldenEye 007, was published by Activision and released for the Wii and Nintendo DS in 2010, and later re-released as GoldenEye 007: Reloaded for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 the following year.

In 2006, the James Bond game license was acquired by Activision, which published additional games in the James Bond video game series, such as Quantum of Solace, 007: Blood Stone, and a reimagining of the Nintendo 64 game, also titled GoldenEye 007.

The glitch was known and used from an early point on, first by Electronic Speech Systems to produce sampled speech in games such as Impossible Mission ( 1983, Epyx ) and Ghostbusters ( 1984, Activision ).

Sierra Entertainment, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA continued to publish games for the personal computer and popular gaming consoles until 2008 when their parent company Vivendi Universal merged with games publisher Activision.

Still holding the copyright to nearly all the past Infocom titles, Activision bundled 20 of the most popular into this package.

The rights to Imagic's most popular titles have been owned by Activision since the late 1980s, and they have been re-released on several occasions.

This in combination with the close launch date of the popular Age of Empires and lack of promotion by Activision meant game sales were poor.

Third-party Atari developers Activision, and Imagic began releasing games for the Intellivision, as did hardware rivals Atari and Coleco.

In recent years this model has been in decline, with the larger publishers such as Electronic Arts and Activision increasingly turning to internal studios, usually former independent developers that they have acquired for the majority of their development needs.

It also caused publishers to on occasion force developers to focus on sequels of successful franchises instead of exploring original IP ; some publishers such as Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts have both attracted criticism for acquiring studios with original games, and assigning them to support roles in more mainstream franchises.

A particularly famous case is the " original " independent developer Activision, founded by former Atari developers.

As part of the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention, Activision announced that Treyarch would be one of three developers behind their first James Bond based title, Quantum of Solace.

Despite speculation that Activision might buy the Creative Assembly, as the publisher had done with previous successful developers under its wing, the Japanese company Sega announced on 9 March 2005 that they had sealed an acquisition deal with the Creative Assembly, purchasing all issued shares in the company.

11 titles were developed and sold by three third-party companies under their own labels for the 7800 ( Absolute Entertainment, Activision, and Froggo ) with the rest published by Atari themselves.

A lack of offers for the company led to a reverse triangular merger with Activision on 13 June 1986.

Atari published their games for Atari systems, Activision and Epyx would do their computer publishing.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh.

Activision briefly offered free downloads of Zork I as part of the promotion of Zork: Nemesis, and Zork II and Zork III as part of the promotion for Zork Grand Inquisitor, as well as a new adventure: Zork: The Undiscovered Underground.

Infocom itself used extensions of. dat ( Data ) and. zip ( ZIP = Z-machine Interpreter Program ), but the latter clashes with the present widespread use of. zip for PKZIP-compatible archive files starting in the 1990s, after Activision had shut down Infocom.

Soldier of Fortune ( also known as SoF ) is a first-person shooter game created by Raven Software and published by Activision on March 27, 2000 for Microsoft Windows.

While the largest of the third-party cartridge makers, Activision, survived for several more years on personal-computer platforms ( thanks to the then-legal ability to average its income and recover millions of dollars in past tax payments from the IRS ), most of the smaller software development houses supporting the Atari 2600 closed.

Activision and Parker Brothers were the only two third-party companies publishing for the Master System in North America, but both companies withdrew their support in 1989 and neither company had released more than five video game titles for the platform.

On February 15, 2011, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District affirmed the trial court's denial of Activision's special motion to strike No Doubt's lawsuit as a strategic lawsuit against public participation, after an interlocutory appeal by Activision.

* In 1982 Activision produced a Barnstorming game cartridge for the Atari 2600

Activision and Traveller's Tales, creators of the Lego Star Wars games, released Transformers: The Game in 2007 to tie in with the live-action feature film for the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2.

Near the end of the article, he hinted that " if enough of you people out there send me emails requesting that Toys For Bob do a legitimate sequel to Star Control 2, I'll be able to show them to Activision, along with a loaded handgun, and they will finally be convinced to roll the dice on this thing.

After negotiations with Activision, Interplay entered a $ 100, 000 contract to produce three illustrated text adventures for them.

The rights to Gabriel Knight are currently held by Activision, which acquired them after merging with former rights holder Vivendi Universal in 2008.

The players claim that this would put them in violation of other contracts ( such as Ferguson's Activision Games contract or several players ' contracts with online poker sites ).

The two of them left mainly because of Jim Levy's departure, and the way the newly appointed CEO of Activision, Bruce Davis, treated video games more like commodities rather than creative products.

Hewson's liquidation forced them to sell the publishing rights for Paradroid 90 to Activision.

The three filmmakers, Lamb, Chris Strompolis, and Eric Zala ( a former Activision employee ), had not spoken to each other in years when Roth contacted them out of the blue, saying that Spielberg wanted to write them a letter.

At one point, the members of the Apolyton site contacted Activision and asked them to release the source code to CTP2.

The manual included a disclaimer stating that evil forces tended to steal games and release them prematurely, a possible reference to the way Activision ran Infocom at the time.