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Ahead of his Develop Conference keynote, EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson explains EA's psychological examination of online entertainment
Read More »EA in $750m swoop for PopCap
EA has moved to acquire social and casual games specialist PopCap for a deal that could eventually be worth $1.3bn. The publisher has bought the firm – best known for hit casual titles Plants vs Zombies, Peggle,Bejeweled and Zuma – for $650m in cash plus $100m in stock. PopCap’s owners …
Read More »EA to buy PopCap in deal worth $750 million
Peggle studio 'to accelerate EA push towards a $1 billion digital business'
Read More »GameTech 2011 hailed a success, plans 2012 event
The GameTech 2011 event attracted over 100 executives and professionals from within the Australian games industry when it was held at Luna Park in Sydney in late June. After more than six months of planning the event alongside the iGEA and GDAA, Connect Events has confirmed to MCV Pacific that …
Read More »EA ‘buys another social games dev’
New owners for the Facebook and Flash studio Ohai, according to reports
Read More »The Creative Guild
Home to the likes of EA, Codemasters and Lionhead, Guildford remains one of Europe's leading games industry hubs
Read More »EA to buy PopCap, sources claim
Publishing giant 'to spend over $1 billion'
Read More »Report puts $1bn price on PopCap acquisition
Rumours suggest big-money swoop could be made by Zynga, EA or DeNA
Read More »EA’s Ben Cousins to run new Ngmoco Sweden studio
Former Easy Studio boss to build content for Dena's Mobage platform
Read More »New Xbox: Crytek rejects certain ‘insider’ info
Developer denies it has the hardware, but keeps quiet about 'next Xbox game project'
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