Vivendi
French investment company headquartered in Paris. Legal entity: Vivendi SE (Societas Europaea). **POST-DEC 2024 STATE:** On December 18, 2024 Vivendi completed a major spin-off separating Canal+ Group, Havas NV, and Louis Hachette Group as independent listed entities. Wholly-owned post-spinoff: **Gameloft** (mobile/PC/console games) plus minority investments in Universal Music Group, Telecom Italia, MediaForEurope, and others (per Wikipedia 'Vivendi' and Vivendi 2025 full-year results). Gameloft is now Vivendi's only wholly-owned operating subsidiary. Q3 2025: 'good performance of Gameloft' (Vivendi Q3 2025 PR). **GAMING HISTORY:** Vivendi-Universal Games / Vivendi Games operated 2001-2008 as major AAA publisher (Sierra, Blizzard, Davidson, Universal Interactive); merged into Activision Blizzard July 2008, Vivendi divested by 2013. Re-entered gaming via June 2016 hostile takeover of Gameloft (56% majority) and pursued Ubisoft 2015-2018 before settling. **CLASSIFICATION:** Pure holding/investment vehicle without direct game-publishing operations - manual class Buyer/Other (corporate parent, not direct publisher).
- Type: Publisher · Buyer
- Headquarters: France
- Activity taxonomy (by shipped credits): Publishing, Production, Game development and engineering, QA and testing services, Development, Porting services
- Credited games in the group: 15
Group structure
- Gameloft (Publisher)
- Gameloft Japan (Developer)
- Gameloft Toronto (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Hungary (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Mexico (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Madrid (Developer)
- Gameloft Italy (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Brisbane (Developer)
- Gameloft Yogyakarta (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Ukraine (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Vietnam (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Sofia (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Bucharest (Service Provider)
- Gameloft Barcelona (Developer)
- Gameloft Montreal (Developer)
Partners proven by shipped credits
- Pole Position Production — Audio design and production services, 2 shared credits, 2016–2018
- The Audio Guys — Audio design and production services, 2 shared credits, 2016–2018
- Old Skull Games — Development, 1 shared credits, 2026–2026
- Frima Studio — Art, assets and fonts production services, 1 shared credits, 2023–2023
- HUWIZ Solutions — QA and testing services, 1 shared credits, 2023–2023
- Pixel Audio — Audio design and production services, 1 shared credits, 2023–2023
- Monotype — Art, assets and fonts production services, 1 shared credits, 2016–2016
- Testronic — QA and testing services, 1 shared credits, 2023–2023
- WB Games — Art, assets and fonts production services, 1 shared credits, 2023–2023
- Quantic Lab — QA and testing services, 1 shared credits, 2023–2023
- Testronic Poland — QA and testing services, 1 shared credits, 2023–2023
- Paramount Skydance — Game development and engineering, 1 shared credits, 2026–2026
- Universally Speaking — QA and testing services, 1 shared credits, 2026–2026
- People Can Fly — Audio design and production services, 1 shared credits, 2018–2018
- Google — Art, assets and fonts production services, 1 shared credits, 2016–2016
Latest related news
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- Monopoly Go delivers $44M to Hasbro in Q2 as 200-project licensing pipeline scales (2026-07-21)
- Australian game development rises again - how studios are navigating tax rebates and a shifting global market (2026-04-07)
- New Radical Games studio targets co-dev and remastering over original IP (2026-02-24)
Source: Games Atlas (gamesatlas.app), based on MobyGames credits and Games Atlas analysis. Games Atlas does not estimate revenue or report the performance of individual games. Profile: https://gamesatlas.app/companies/vivendi