Acti Blizz beats $1 billion revenue in Q2

By Patrick Garratt

Acti Blizz just beat guidance in the second quarter, bringing in $1.04 billion revenue compared to a $1 billion estimate.

EPS was was $0.15.

The company claimed in its release that it grew quarterly North American and European market share 2.8 points across all platforms to 12.7 percent from 9.9 percent for the previous year, and was the top North American third-party console and handheld publisher for both the quarter and first six months of the calendar year.

Prototype, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises, as well as WoW, were singled out as top scores for the period.

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