http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/826/826662p1.html

EA buys BioWare, Pandemic
The Mass Effect and Mercenaries developers change hands for more than $800 million.
by Ryan Geddes

US, October 11, 2007 - Electronic Arts announced today that it has purchased the holding company that owns BioWare and Pandemic Studios.

The acquisition will cost EA about $775 million, which includes a $650 million cash payment to the stockholders of VG Holding Corp., which directly owns the two developers, and an additional $155 million in equity to select VG employees.

As part of the agreement, EA said it plans to lend up to $35 million to the company through the closing of the deal, expected in January. EA will also assume outstanding VG Holding Corp. stock options.

VG Holding is owned by Elevation Partners, which invested $300 million in BioWare and Pandemic in November 2005, creating one of the world's best-funded and largest independent game development houses.

Elevation Partners (which includes U2 front-man Bono) was formerly headed by John Riccitello, who left EA in 2004 to form the company. Riccitello re-joined EA as chief operating officer in April.

"We are truly excited by John Riccitiello's new vision for EA," said Ray Muzyka, Co-founder and CEO of BioWare Corp. in a news release Thursday. "This vision is consistent with BioWare's focus on crafting the highest quality story-driven games in the world. It will enable us to further the careers of the passionate, creative and hard working teams at BioWare Edmonton and BioWare Austin."

Pandemic Studios is led by Andrew Goldman, Josh Resnick and Greg Borrud. BioWare Corp. is jointly led by Greg Zeschuk and Muzyka. Those teams will join the EA Games Label run by Frank Gibeau, President of EA Games.

BioWare's upcoming RPG Mass Effect is scheduled for a November 20 release. Pandemic Studios is currently working on Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, expected to be released in April.

不过现在的EA应该不会让牛蛙和Westwood的事件再重演吧

[ 本帖最后由 slowsonic 于 2007-10-12 08:03 编辑 ]

OMFG。。。和Peter Moore事件会有什么联系么。。。

这……太EA了！

孟德，EA有摧毁优秀制作小组的优良传统，希望这次不是。。。。

到最後，美國只有兩個第3方，EA或非EA。

呵呵，希望别毁了游戏小组才好。

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原帖由 kaikaimao 于 2007-10-12 06:51 发表
到最後，美國只有兩個第3方，EA或非EA。

最后当然是没有EA之外的第三方了
EA千秋万代一桶糨糊！

我操。对EA没好感。BioWare保重，千万别被EA害了。。。最喜欢的公司之一被最不喜欢的公司之一收购。泪目

我的Bioware……死EA

EA干的好

等着被MS收购吧

说不定BIOWARE借助EA的财力，推出一系列超级大作，那岂不是爽了。。。愿望是美好的，希望现实也是美好的。。。

我的bioware

Bioware　我最喜欢的欧美游戏公司之一　　　ＥＡ怎么能这样

哎被Ea收了
那还谈什么前途

Bioware被EA收购？？？
不是吧？！不会吧？！
泪奔~~