After I was laid off from the Electronic Arts back in 2001 (right after 9/11), I didn't have much faith in the company (can you imagine?), so I sold my stock options and put most of it into our main competitor, Activision. The stock market didn't do much in the year I lived in Samoa, but it's been coming around and I'm finally starting to see some benefits.

While EA stock has been more or less stagnant over the last year, ATVI has killed.

The news out today can only mean bigger and better things for Activision which continues to pump out quality games like Call of Duty, Doom 3 and Spiderman to bang up against gaming behemoth Electronic Arts.