Full-year figures much healthier as publisher reports record earnings and huge increase in profit.
Activision Blizzard sustained a loss of $233 million during the final three months of 2010 despite setting sales records with Call Of Duty: Black Ops and World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm, according to its latest financial statements.
Black Ops was the best-selling console game of all time during a single quarter, says Activision, and WoW expansion Cataclysm sold 4.7 million copies in its first month on sale.