Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Redwood City, Calif. - Video game developer and publisher Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS) announced on Monday that it has acquired Playfish, a creator of social network games, for about $275 million in cash, with an additional $25 million in equity retention arrangements. The sellers are also entitled to another $100 million in performance-based consideration on milestones achieved...
i4U (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Electronic Arts today announced it has acquired Playfish, a creator of social network games. Playfish will operate within EA Interactive, a division of EA focused on the web and on wireless. EA has acquired Playfish for approximately US$275 million in ...
The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Electronic Arts Inc. said Monday it acquired social network game creator Playfish Ltd. for about $275 million in cash and $25 million in equity retention arrangements.
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
As a number of "industry sources" reported last month , Electronic Arts has elected to add a new studio to its already expansive roster: Playfish, a prolific developer of free-to-play casual games on social networking sites like Facebook. The studio was bought out for about $275 million with an additional $25 million set aside for equity retention arrangements. Playfish is...
Celeb Gossip (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
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Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Merscom announced today that they have eight brand new social-network games in the making and they're hoping that everyone who networks socially will also put in a little time to game, too.
videogamesblogger.com: (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Spore Islands for Facebook is an all-new version of the popular PC game from The Sims creator Will Wright. Unlike the PC version of the game though, this new game is a strategy game. In Spore Islands, players create a creature of their own design from appearance to stats, then place it on an island [...]
DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
EA has announced that they’ve acquired social network game developer PlayFish for 300 million dollars. PlayFish, which makes games for social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, will receive an additional $100 million if certain sales/revenue goals are met before 2012. PlayFish has developed 10 titles which have 60 million active users on Facebook and [...]
Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Electronic Arts is betting big on social gaming. This morning the video game publisher said it will acquire social-network games maker Playfish for $400 million. An interesting move, since the company’s leadership was dismissing rumors of such a deal just last month.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Video game publisher Electronic Arts says it has acquired Playfish, a privately held company that makes social network games, for $275 million in cash. Electronic Arts says the purchase will help it transition into gaming among online communities. It will pay... Electronic Arts - Video game - Video game publisher - Games - Privately held company
Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Reporting a second-quarter loss that widened thanks to a week video game market, Electronic Arts today said it will cut 1,500 jobs by early next year, as part of a restructuring effort aimed at trimming at least $100 million in costs. This after announcing plans this morning to acquire social network games maker Playfish for $400 million.
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
And you thought you spent a lot of money on Pet Society. EA just spent $300 million on leading social network game creator Playfish, the team behind Pet Society, Restaurant City, and Country Story....
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Video game publisher Electronic Arts says it has acquired Playfish, a privately held company that makes social network games, for $275 million in cash.
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Sorry for the late notice, but the Arizona Fall Leauge Rising Stars All Star game is tonight and is being televised. You can catch it on the MLB Network. If you don’t have the MLB Network the game is being streamed online. The Tigers are being represented by Casper Wells and Andrew Oliver and manager [...]
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Video game publisher Electronic Arts says it has acquired Playfish, a privately held company that makes social network games, for $275 million in cash.
