Electronic Arts buying PopCap games for up to $1.3 billion
Electronic Arts Inc, the video game publisher, is buying PopCap Games in a deal worth up to $1.3 billion as it tries to ramp up its social and casual games portfolio and better compete with Zynga Inc. A gamer plays with Hyperkin's SupaBoy portable gaming device which plays original SNES game cartridges during the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Los Angeles June 8, 2011.
PopCap Games, the studio with a portfolio including Bejewelled and Plants vs Zombies, is being acquired for over $1 billion, according to TechCrunch.