{"id":5692,"date":"2010-03-31T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"activision-blizzard-restructures-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5692-activision-blizzard-restructures-organisation","title":{"rendered":"Activision Blizzard restructures organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without making any formal announcements, mega publisher Activision Blizzard has reshuffled itself into four clear segments.<\/p>\n<p>The first segment will focus on the Call of Duty franchise, the second on &ldquo;company-owned&rdquo; franchises such as Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk, the third on licensed games such as Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Spider-Man. The fourth segment is Blizzard, which will continue to operate independently.<\/p>\n<p>Activision has also trimmed some fat, so to speak, by terminating 15 high level employees.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the publisher has reshuffled its deck since it merged with Vivendi in 2008, and essentially acquired Blizzard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher now divided into four parts <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}