EA is now the rightful owner of PopCap, the people who created Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, for a whopping $650 million in cash and $100 million more in stock.
"EA and PopCap are a compelling combination," said EA CEO John Riccitiello. "PopCap's great studio talent and powerful IP add to EA's momentum and accelerate our drive towards a $1 billion digital business. EA's global studio and publishing network will help PopCap rapidly expand their business to more digital devices, more countries, and more channels."
"We picked EA because they have recast their culture around making great digital games," said David Roberts, CEO of PopCap. "By working with EA, we'll scale our games and services to deliver more social, mobile, casual fun to an even bigger, global audience."
More will be released during an EA investor's call later today, but I am not the biggest EA fan out there and I hope they won't do anything that will mess up such great games.
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