Apachai

US games giant Electronic Arts (EA) is to buy two video game studios for $855m (£422m) in a deal adding role-playing and action titles to its portfolio.

EA is the world's biggest games publisher and will now acquire Bioware and Pandemic Studios.
They are private firms that have been partners since a 2005 deal brought them together in VG Holding, a deal backed by private equity firm Elevation.
The buy is the biggest ever for EA, known for its Sims and Madden games.
EA says it plans to release four or five games a year from the new studios in each of the 2009/10 and 2010/11 financial years.
Bioware is the maker of a series of critically acclaimed and best-selling role-playing games, including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Baldur's Gate series.
Meanwhile, its science fiction game Mass Effect is being published next month by Microsoft.
And the Pandemic team makes action games such as Mercenaries, Star Wars Battlefront and Full Spectrum Warrior.

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Jorgi

Yeah i read this on gamespot.
It is sick, i mean they will get even bigger, and I mean, now they are HUGE!

They will make sick loads of money.

But.

EA + RPG = WTF

Seriusly.

Meh, I hope they will make SSX5 for the ps3 though, that would be awesome, with a whole mountain to explore, with no restrictions, you could go everywhere!!!

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Apachai

LOL that made me laugh

I know what you mean, most EA games suck, but we should wait and see what happens, it would be unfair to judge what theyll do untill they actually do something lol

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Jorgi

EA BIG is kinda cool

Unrealistic overdone sport games can be fun. SSX is genious games

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Emarian

Man, two of my favorite games of all time are now ruined.

Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic and SW Battlefront 2

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Big Deal, it just means that they're going to be more richer than ever, what business hasn't done this, through their course as a business, even if it is EA LOL!!

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