Fri, Aug 12, 2011 | 23:03 BST

EA completes acquisition of PopCap

EA’s announced tonight that its completed the take over of PopCap Games. The news comes via way of a Form 8k the company has sent out. The buyout was announced last month, with EA buying PopCap for $750 million: $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock options. The pricetag could get as high as $1.3 billion, though. Find some analysis in the wake of the takeover from Nathan here.

2 comments

#1

Jackie
13/08/11, 7:54 am

one more dev in the evil claws of satan!

#2

Noodlemanny
13/08/11, 12:01 pm

Well PopCap hadn’t really been doing anything recently. Maybe EA will make them actually make something new… Then ruin it by making them make it too ‘accessible’.

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