Mergers & Acquisitions

Did EA Just Drop $250M On Social Gaming Dev Playfish?

8:40AM October 15, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Electronic Arts may be expanding its empire with a big buyout of social games developer Playfish, the UK-headquartered company that makes games for Facebook, MySpace, iPhone and Android. Cost to EA is rumoured to be a quarter billion bucks. More »


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Ubisoft Buys TrackMania Developers Nadeo

7:40AM October 6, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Valve isn’t the only developer makes moves to expand this week, as French publisher Ubisoft has acquired Nadeo, the also French developers responsible for the wildly popular TrackMania racing game series. More »


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Wall Street Journal To Disney: ‘Buy EA’

7:20AM November 4, 2008 | Michael McWhertor

The Wall Street Journal has some advice — we’re guessing unsolicited — for Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger: Maybe it’s time to buy Electronic Arts. Why? Well, the price might be right (right now) given that EA’s stock has taken a pretty serious hit lately, partly due to general economic turmoil and on second quarter corporate earnings from the Madden publisher that WSJ calls “disappointing.” Why does it makes sense?

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