EA Renews Digital Illusions Deal

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 21, 2004 @06:36AM from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

We reported last week on EA's bid on DICE, the makers of BF1942, and their lack of success at winning the shareholders over. This week GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that EA has revised the proposal in hopes of swaying those finicky stockholders. From the article: "However, EA's latest move conditions the offer upon a lower acceptance level of more than 50 per cent of the total number of shares - representing more than 50 per cent of the capital and votes in DICE after dilution due to an employee option programme launched in 2002." Update: 12/21 19:18 GMT by Z : Fixed broken link.

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Can't avoid EA by Dekks · 2004-12-21 06:43 · Score: 4, Interesting

With all the negative press surrounding EA of late and the fact their in house games are just the same rehashed games over and over again, I told myself I wouldn't purchase another game from them. Then I found myself loading up a few of my favourite games and the splash screens all said the same thing XXXX cool game studio, and then published by EA GAMES. Its getting where you can't avoid them.