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Electronic Arts to Acquire PopCap Games for $750 Million

by acrum on 7/12/11, 8:09 PM with 20 comments

• by malkia on 7/12/11, 9:56 PM

  Holy Crap. What's wrong with EA?

  Our studio (Treyarch) was acquired for around 5-15mln (not sure the right number), close number for Infinity Ward and other studios (there is report on the net about public numbers).

  But $750mln? Isn't the Pandemic acquisition pandemic enough? Who the fuck drives EA?

• by georgemcfly on 7/12/11, 8:39 PM

  How is Zynga supposedly worth over 20 times what PopCap is being bought for? I must be massively underestimating how much people spend on in-game items in * Ville\* Wars. Or really overestimating how many copies of PvZ have been sold (I've bought it twice). And PopCap's revenue model isn't even almost wholly dependent on another companies success.

• by unwind on 7/13/11, 11:56 AM

  I enjoyed PopCap's announcement: http://www.popcap.com/ea?icid=ea_HP_PLARGE_pc_EN. :)

• by hristov on 7/12/11, 9:45 PM

  Much less than the 1+ billion techcrunch reported.