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ATVI » Topics » It is important to note that this does not include equity compensation. We have shown it this way in order to be consistent with the way Activision reports operating income. When we report at Vivendi our year-end numbers, we now expect EBITDA, which is thThis excerpt taken from the ATVI DEFA14A filed Dec 5, 2007. It is important to note that this does not include equity compensation. We have shown it this way in order to be consistent with the way Activision reports operating income. When we report at Vivendi our year-end numbers, we now expect EBITDA, which is the Vivendi metric, to be at least 65% above the prior year.
Vivendi Games is comprised of four divisions. One is the highly profitable Blizzard Entertainment, which is the leader of massively multi-player online role-playing games, MMORPGs. The other three divisions are Sierra, Sierra Online and Vivendi Games mobile. The portfolio includes some of the best-selling franchises of all time, Blizzard Entertainments Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft, and Sierras franchises, such as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.
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