Electronic Arts buys Digital Illusions

[Steve]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...src=rss&rpc=22

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronic Arts (ERTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday that it had bought Sweden's Digital Illusions CE, or DICE, known for the Battlefield game franchise, for about 175.5 million SEK ($24 mln).

DICE will become an Electronic Arts studio that works on the Battlefield franchise and developing new products, the company said.

Redwood City, California-based Electronic Arts said it had paid SEK 67.50 ($9.23) to DICE's shareholders, representing 2.6 million shares.

[DevilDog#1]

Dang! Now waht will we do!

[Hellfighter]

DD the games still be coming as always as before maybe even better, EA games do go all out for big games types.

i think it still be good or even better.

i only can hope it be a good move. have to say the share holder lost out "SEK 67.50 ($9.23) to DICE's shareholders" thats not a whole lot of money.

[SilentTrigger]

You need to know what the stock was rated at before the buy out, if i remember it right, it was somewhere along 40 kr.

And this has been going on for months, it's just now that every paper work is done and the fusion has been granted (allowed)

"Patrick Söderlund, DICE VD, uppgav, "Att bli en del av EA-studion är ett stort
steg framåt vilket kommer att hjälpa oss att fortsätta producera nya spel och
nya spelserier till DICE fans. Vi har haft ett nära samarbete med EA under de
senaste fem åren och detta utgör ett mycket naturligt steg för oss när vi tar
oss till nästa generation av spel.""

Translation

Patrick Söderlund, DICE VD, said "To be a part of EA-studio is a great step forward which will help us to continnue produce new games and new gameseires to DICE fans. We have had a close cooperation with EA during the last five years and this will be a natrual step for us when developing the next gerneration of games"

[Chrispy]

Whoa that's heaps! :O
If they bought Nova... hey, let's ask them to buy Nova! :P

Chris_OJB_DF645 --

[Mstenger404]

Originally posted by Chris_OJB_DF645
Whoa that's heaps! :O
If they bought Nova... hey, let's ask them to buy Nova! :P

Chris_OJB_DF645 --

then they'll start making actual games