EA swallows Bioware

[Nadia]

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced an agreement with Elevation Partners to acquire VG Holding Corp. -- the owner of both BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios. This acquisition gives EA a strong competitive position in key genres in interactive entertainment: action, adventure and role-playing games. The two studios have been recognized for creating some of the highest-quality games in the industry.

BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios have ten franchises under development, including six wholly owned games.


BioWare Corp. is currently developing the highly anticipated Mass Effect, which will be published by Microsoft in November, and is in the early development stages of a massively multiplayer online game.

Pandemic Studios is redefining open-world games with its upcoming Mercenaries 2: World in Flames™ and Saboteur™, in addition to several unannounced projects.

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[Ddrak]

Glad Mass Effect is all but finished. Wouldn't trust Bioware to come out with much good stuff after that now. All the best devs are most likely running for the hills.

Dd

[Bahd Zoolander]

Such an entertaining afternoon at the office yesterday when we got this e-mail.

[Klast Brell]

I smell massive layoffs