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Rupert Murdoch Considers Entry to Gaming Industry

Posted by Zonk on from the right-wing-games-to-follow dept.

GamesIndustry.biz reports that News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch is considering acquiring a game publisher. He's apparently "kicking the tires" on everything up to and including EA. From the article: "He highlighted Activision as one games publisher which is being considered for purchase. The Californian company, which is one of the biggest publishers in the world, has a market capitalisation of under $3 billion, compared to around $19 billion for Electronic Arts." It's sobering to consider that as big as EA is within the gaming industry it is small fry compared to the big fish in other sectors.

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  1. It worked for AOL/Time Warner by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Remember when AOL and Time Warner got together and people were like "crap dude, they have the content and the means to give it to people they are going to make billions!" Last time I heard AOL just went through another round of layoffs and Time Warner dropped the AOl name. Same thing is very possible if a Media giant wants to take over a succesful game company.

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    -Dipster
  2. Re:Downfall of gaming in Japan by Squatchman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not just that, but also the "Silent early-teen Hero takes on ancient overly-vocal evil" action genre.

    Don't forget about the "Final Sequel: No really, for real this time" RPG genre.

    Finally, who could forget the "Super Hyper Avenue Fisticuffs Ten: Alpha-X-Niner Turbo Tournament Edition" fighting genre?

  3. What a hypocrite by DaveCBio · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find it funny that Fox (and Murdoch personally) push a hard line conservative agenda while his other properties continue to pump out the "filth" that Fox commentators lament constantly. It's hard enough to put Family Guy and O'Reilly in the same headspace and now they want to get into gaming? Thanks, but no thanks.