Activision Blizzard announced its latest financial numbers for its last fiscal quarter that ended on December 31 2010. Revenues came in at $1.43 billion for the quarter, slightly below the company's numbers of $1.56 billion for the same period a year ago. For the entire 2010 calendar year the publisher brought in $4.45 billion in revenue, slightly higher than the $4.28 billion in revenue that it brought back in 2009.

In the press release, which also announced the cancellation of True Crime Hong Kong and the shut down of the company's Guitar Hero business, Activision Blizzard announced that next week during Toy Fair it would announced a new franchise that it claims will "bring the world of toys, video games and the Internet together in an unprecedented way."