Holy Crap

[fusion_waste]

EA just bought Bioware and Pandemic for $825 million dollars.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=alJbKng1px_M&refer=news

:O

Comments

[djcrowley]

let the gnashing of teeth and gnawing of livers begin now. they're going to pull an Origin here, I can just feel it.

and wait... Bono used to be a part-owner of BioWare?

[fusion_waste]

Bono was part of the company that organized the Bioware-Pandemic merger thing a few years ago. So he just made a large chunk of change.

[cassel]

that's a lot of cheeseburgers.

[egowumpus]

Is nothing sacrosanct?

[fusion_waste]

No. Actually, the dollar. That's pretty sacrosanct.

[chipadeedoodah]

These are my teeth, hear them gnash. At least Mass Effect is done enough that it will escape unscathed (except for the EA pre-requisite 80 kajillion 15-second unskippable logo crawls and copyright notices before the main menu).

Guess we'll throw Throw Bioware on the heap with Origin, Bullfrog, et al.

(You work for the only branch of the company I don't consider essentially evil. If I had any goodwill left at all, they murdered it along with Oddworld Stranger.)

[fudjo]

uggggggghhh