Activision was able to break June quarter records without any contribution from Vivendi Games or its subsidiary, Blizzard Entertainment.

Catalog sales of Call of Duty 4, Guitar Hero products and Kung Fu Panda pushed Activision's stand-alone net revenues to $654.2 million, an increase of 32 percent year-on-year.

Stand-alone net income for the quarter reached $59 million, up from $27.8 million.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said the quarter was the "highest ever for a non-holiday quarter."

He added, "Activision Blizzard's combined outlook for calendar year 2008 is set to exceed the comparable calendar year 2009 non-GAAP financial targets that we provided on December 2, 2007, by approximately $600 million in non-GAAP net revenues and $100 million in non-GAAP operating income."

For the September quarter, Activision Blizzard, which officially mergered on July 9, expects net revenues of $636 million a loss per diluted share of $0.26. The sales forecast doesn't include $50 million that Activision generated between July 1 through July 8.

For the December quarter, the firm expects sales $1.85 billion and earnings per diluted share of $0.11.

Blizzard head Mike Morhaime added in an earnings release, "Since June 2007, World of Warcraft has grown its subscriber base by over 1.8 million, to 10.9 million players."