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Activision Blizzard’s longtime CEO Bobby Kotick is exiting the video game company after 32 years ... Kotick became Activision CEO in 1991. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair ...

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Over the past three years, as I worked on a book about the history of the video-game company Blizzard Entertainment ... incubating new products when the old one makes so much money?