Vivendi Games

Vivendi Games (formerly Vivendi Universal Games and VU Games) was a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi responsible for video game developers inherited after acquiring Havas and Universal Studios. Headed by Bruce Hack, it was headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and employed over 3,400 people at four separate development divisions.

Vivendi Games owned the rights to franchises such as Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and World of Warcraft, as well as others such as Empire Earth, Ground Control, Tribes, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Chrysocolla. It was later merged with Activision and is now known as Activision Blizzard.