It was recently announced that CEO of Vivendi, Jean-Bernard Levy, will replace Rene Penisson as Chairman of Activision Blizzard.

According to Joystiq, Vivendi is the majority owner of Activision Blizzard, just to give you a whiff of the company’s scale.

Let’s see, Activision Blizzard has Warcraft, Starcraft, Guitar Hero, Diablo, and Call of Duty; all colossal franchises. Vivendi, hower, has Activision Blizzard and Universal Studios. Yeah, big companies.

IGN reports that horror-shooter Project Origin will now be known as F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin, adding to the wearing out of ellipses on keyboards worldwide.

While Monolith had created the original FEAR, the sequel was not going to use the moniker due to Vivendi owning the title, though Monolith held the rights to its characters and settings. Things changed as Monolith and Warner Bros. have purchased the “FEAR” brand name from Activision Blizzard.

The new conglomerate had previously disclosed that it intended to retain only a couple of Vivendi properties, which has left Ghostbusters and other projects in limbo.

The sequel is due out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 10, 2009.