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Electronic Arts (EA) announced today that it will acquire PopCap Games in a deal that may reach as much as a total of $1.3 billion . Last month, PopCap was rumored to have a mystery buyer that was offering somewhere around $1 billion. Given EA’s recent forays into social gaming, the deal doesn’t come as a huge surprise. PopCap is behind popular games Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle, Zuma, and Bejeweled. ‘We picked EA because they have recast their… Read More

As if anyone needed more confirmation that the social and mobile gaming genre was taking over the industry, Farmville creator Zynga has nearly doubled is market worth in the last several months and is more profitable than veteran gaming giant EA. In March of last year, Zynga was valued at $2.61 billion dollars – not bad for a firm less than five years old. Today Bloomberg News reported its worth at $5.51 billion. EA is reported to be worth $5.16… Read More

An Electronic Arts (EA) spokeswoman has confirmed to Reuters that the gaming giant will be acquiring Chillingo, the publisher of the game Angry Birds. While she would not give numbers, an anonymous Reuters source claims the deal was worth $20 million. Angry Birds has long been a top seller in Apple’s App Store and recently surpassed 2 million downloads in a single weekend after it became available on Android. It looks like EA is making a pretty… Read More

Electronic Arts might be the titan of the video game publishing industry, owning top-selling franchises and churning out game after game for essentially every viable platform on the planet. But the company is not immune to the tight global economic climate…and nor is it immune to market forces that are quickly reshaping the gaming industry. Yesterday Electronic Arts announced a new deal to acquire social gaming company Playfish for some… Read More