It's been expected ever since the merger was first announced but now it's official: The new Activision Blizzard (made up of the former Activision and Vivendi Games) has finally given some details on just what they plan to do with all of the game projects under Vivendi Games' Sierra Entertainment brand. Basically the company's Activision Publishing brand is keeping only a few franchises on Sierra's list; Crash Bandicoot, Ice Age and Spyro and the upcoming Radical Entertainment open world action game Prototype. One other former Sierra game that Activision will publisher has not yet been revealed.

This means that a ton of previously announced games under Sierra Entertainment won't likely be published by the new Activision Blizzard including World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, WET, the Ghostbusters game (shown in playable form at San Diego Comic Con just this past weekend) and Brutal Legend. It's currently unknown if the games will be cancelled or sold to other publishers

The press release also says that the status of two of Vivendi Games' internal development studios, Swordfish and Massive, are being evaluated including the possibly of them being sold off. Two more Vivendi development studios, High Moon and Radical, will have some kind of staff adjustments although it's not clear exactly what that means yet. Two more former Vivendi brands, Sierra Online (which published downloadable games for the PC) and Vivendi Games Mobile, could also be put up for sale. We will likely get more info on this situation in the weeks ahead.