ghtmay be the next multi-billion dollar company to drop big cash on a Facebook game maker. Bloomberg reports that the Xbox 360 maker is one of the companies in talks to buy CrowdStar, supposedly valued at $US200 million.
And you thought you spent a lot of money on Pet Society. EA just spent $US300 million on leading social network game creator Playfish, the team behind Pet Society, Restaurant City, and Country Story.
Mortal Kombat, This Is Vegas and the Midway trademark, as of today, are owned by Warner Bros., with the media conglomerate having completed the purchase of “substantially all of the assets” of the Chicago headquartered company.
Looks like the new home of Mortal Kombat, Joust, Spy Hunter and other well-known Midway properties will be Warner Bros. after all. The media conglomerate looks to have won bidding rights to the publisher and developer by default.
In an interview with Kotaku, id’s John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead explained how changing circumstances with Activision and other studios spurred id’s sale to Bethesda parent ZeniMax.
Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard… all in one company.
Troubled real-time strategy and role-playing developer Big Huge Games lives on, with Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios stepping up at the last moment for a late game save.
Midway today announced that they have received a more than $US33 million offer from Warner Bros. to buy out most of their company.
In Europe, Atari is no more. The company’s sales and marketing staff will be transferred to the newly-formed business Distribution Partners, reports industry site MCV.
