Tag Archive: Acquisition

Amazon’s Android March: PopCap Games Signs An Exclusive Deal

For any of the 50 million app downloaders who’ve racked their brains or thwapped their thumbs on an iPad or iPhone touch screen full of digital jewels, PopCap Games–or at least its runaway hit, Bejeweled–will ring a bell. The company …

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Namco Bandai Surge-s West

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At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, executives from Square Enix, Capcom, and Namco Bandai engaged in a roundtable discussion about Japan’s diminished role in the gaming industry. As a result, the publisher and many of its fellow Japanese outfits are …

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Take-Two Interactive to remain independent

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Take-Two Interactive Software Inc, until recently an acquisition target of bigger rival Electronic Arts Inc, plans to remain an independent company, the makers of the popular “Grand Theft Auto” series said on Thursday. Take-Two said the …

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Yahoo! Video Games

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Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others …

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EA, Take Two End Acquisition Talks

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Electronic Arts will not make a proposal to acquire rival Take Two-Interactive Software, the company said Sunday. “After careful consideration, including a management presentation and review of other due diligence materials provided by (Take-Two), EA has decided not to make …

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