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Activision Trial Exhibit 1032

Date
May 24, 2012
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These emails have been submitted as evidence in the upcoming trial pitting Activision Blizzard Inc. against the former developers of the Call of Duty game franchise. Exhibit 1032: These emails concern a block of stock grants that Activision planned to award to top developers at Infinity Ward. It includes a recommendation from the lawyer who represented Jason West and Vincent Zampella, the heads of Infinity Ward and plaintiffs in the lawsuit, about whether to distribute those grants or ?stall.?

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From: Grffith, Mike [mailto: [email protected]] Senh Monday, October 26,20A93:06 pM To: Zampella, Vince; Wct, Jason Cc: Kotick,Bobby;Stohl,Dave;Weiser, Ann; Green,Nicole Subject: Annual Grant Importance: High VinceandJason. - OUTSIDE IIGHLYCONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL'S EYESONLY ACT-W204747930 Trial Exhibit 1032.0002 grantfor your I wantto makesureyou havea chance inputon the allocation the annual equity to for is studio employees. has not heardbackfromyou on thisandthe deadline nowto get the final HR to information submitted the compensation appears be a reasonable to committee. The attached moming. allocation is whatwe'lluse unless hearbackfromyou by firstthingtomorrow and we Morethanhappy discuss you'dlike. to if Mike From: Chaisson, Eric Sent: Monday, October 26,20092:53 PM To: Griffith,Mike;Stohl,Dave;Green,Nicole (HQ);Chaisson, Cc: Weiser, Ann; Frings, Eric Rich;Aguilar, Steven Subject: Importancet High Mike. DaveandNicole We havenotheardbackfrom lW on the equity sharepool. We'vetherefore allocation their180,000 of comeup witha recommendation themandwouldlikefor you to review.Apologies aheadof time,but for we are hoping hearbackbv theend of davtodav(10/26) to withyourapproval. primarily We reviewed between several whichranged alternatives howto distribute poolofshares the on the ideasof basing grants precedent on 2)job levels defined as in current eitheron 1) historical or Oracle.Afterreviewing that we scenarios underbothof theseapproaches concluded 1) historical precedent grants, givenit takesintoaccount equitygranting served the bestproxyfor current the as practices/key talentas defined lW during lastfewyears. the by Theattached contains recommendation, the of our belowis the approach determining number shares: to I . We reviewed pastgrantamounts all employees, the for the excluding studioheads grantsizesfor 2006- 2008;We did not include 2. Aggregated 2009sincethatwas a special RSU grant 3. Calculated proportion pastgranEemployees the of of as havereceived a percent the entirepool - OUTSIDE HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL'S EYESONLY ACT-W204747931 Trial Exhibit 1032.0003 available (in the past) 4. Applied the proportion employees have historically received to today's pool of 180,000 shares 5, Proportion had to yield a total current grant of at least 1,000 shares to be counted 6. Eliminated two employees who did not receive a grant in 2008 from the list given it is the most recent and relevant data we have on typical grant recipients (employee names are Chris Cherubini and Jason McCord) 7. One exception to the above process is that we included RODGFK Bowling on the list as he was recently identined as a "key talent" employee with the 2009 RSU grant 8. We did some rounding ot numbers to achieve the total 180,000 share pool Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you, Eric Chaisson 0 Compensation I Activision Blizzard Inc. I Eric.ChaissonQactivisiomcom CONFIDENTIAL - OUTSIDE COUNSEUS EYES ONLY ACT--WZ04747932 Trial Exhibit 1032.0004

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