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Home News PopCap Games To Be Acquired By Unknown Company for $1 Billion

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PopCap Games To Be Acquired By Unknown Company for $1 Billion

Posted on Wednesday, June 22 @ 16:24:00 Eastern by


In what may become the news of the week, PopCap Games is in the works of being acquired by an undisclosed company to the tune of $1 billion. How many Peggles is that?

PopCap has an annual revenue of $100-150 million, so theorists are ruling out Zynga as the possible suspect, with rumors saying that they tried but just didn't feel comfortable with the exorbitant price tag.

Electronic Arts is a strong contender with their history of acquiring other companies, like Playfish in 2009, as well as The Great Wall of Chinese companies like Tencent.

But I would like to throw in the American company of Microsoft as my prediction. I mean, what did they show at E3 apart from Gears of War 3, some Kinect games, and a Halo remake? They have to be saving their money for something, right? It could be for the pending apocalypse, sure, but this would be close enough, too.

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Related Games:   Bejeweled Twist, Bookworm Adventures, Peggle, Plants vs. Zombies
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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Jun 22nd, 2011 at 4:56 pm
    Wait, People pay for Zynga?! Why thats like paying for call of duty elite!
    0 1
  • Sebastian_Moss
    Sebastian_Moss
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Jun 22nd, 2011 at 5:25 pm
    If Google are really deciding to get into social gaming this would be a great move
    1 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 22nd, 2011 at 6:13 pm
    Agreed, makes the most sense.
    0 0
  • LinksOcarina
    LinksOcarina
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 22nd, 2011 at 5:29 pm
    Rumor I hear is EA games...but who knows.
    0 0
  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Jun 22nd, 2011 at 10:32 pm
    God save us all if that is true
    0 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 22nd, 2011 at 6:15 pm
    I'd say Nick may be on to something, what with Popcap getting Deal of the Week status on Xbox Live. Please God, let Nick be wrong. I don't know what I would do if Plants Vs Zombies suddenly disappeared from my iPhone....
    0 1
  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Jun 23rd, 2011 at 12:54 am
    I'm going to say Activision because hey, why the hell not? It's not like they don't have the spare change hiding in their couch cushions to pay for it.
    0 0

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