Last October Electronic Arts out of Redwood, CA purchased two reputable game companies putting their company in the lead on the NY Stock Exchange. Recently that lead has waned with competition from Take-Two Interactive, another large player in the video gaming world. You might have heard of them. Under their RockStar development group they produce a little game called: Grand Theft Auto.
EA has just bid Two Billion dollars to purchase this rival.
Last year’s October purchase of BioWare and Pandemic Studios added the following games to EA’s arsenal:
From BioWare:
- Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
- Dragon Age
- Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
- New Next Gen Game
- LucasArts/BioWare Interactive Product
- Neverwinter Nights Series
- Mass Effect
- Jade Empire
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Baldur’s Gate Series
- MDK2 Series
- Shattered Steel
From Pandemic:
- Full Spectrum Warrior™
- Star Wars: Clone Wars
- Triple Play 2002
- Army Men RTS
- Dark Reign 2
- Battlezone II
- Saboteur
- Mercenaries Series
- Destroy All Humans Series
- Full Spectrum Warrior Series
- Star Wars Battlefront Series
If the $2,000,000,000 take over were to go through, EA would have controlling stock in games like:
- The Manhunt Series
- Bully
- Actually, Rockstar Games alone account for:
- Table Tennis
- Midnight Club Series
- Grand Theft Auto Series
- Smuggler’s Run Series
- The Italian Job
- Max Payne Series
- The Aforementioned Bully
- BioShock
- All-Pro Football 2K8
- The Darkness
- and more…
