එලෙක්ට්රෝනික් ආර්ට් ආයතනය මගින් කල අත්කර ගැනීම්
ඉලෙක්ට්රොනික් ආර්ට්ස් ආයතනය 1982 දී ආරම්භ කරන ලද පරිගණක සහ වීඩියෝ ක්රීඩා පිලිබඳ ඇමරිකානු දියුණුකරන්නෙක්, වෙළෙන්දන්දෙක් ,ප්රකාශකයෙක් වෙයි.ආයතනයේ නිපැයුම් ලෙස EA Sports franchises, Sims, සහ වෙනත් මාතෘකා යටතේ වූ ඇතැති සහ ගෘහස්ත ක්රීඩා පාලන පුවරු ඇතුලත් වේ .[1]
උදාහරණයක් වශයෙන් ඉලෙක්ට්රොනික් ආර්ට්ස් සභාපති සහ ප්රධාන විධායක නිලධරී Larry Probst පවසා ඇත්තේ JAMDAT Mobile ආයතනය අත්පත් කරගැනීමෙන් පසුව අප ජංගම දුරකථන සඳහා ක්රීඩා සැපයීම වෙනුවෙන් ගෝලීය ව්යාපාරික ස්ථානයකට නැඹුරුව ඇති බවයි. [2] EA followed through with this later, making the company into EA Mobile, and allowing people to purchase and download content produced by them directly onto their phones.[1] After the acquisition of Origin Systems, some staff in that company claimed that Electronic Arts initially gave them more resources, but allowed little latitude if employees made a mistake, and in some cases no longer trusted them, and even worked against them.[3][4] EA has shut down entire companies or the studios thereof after acquiring them, including the studio DICE Canada, Origin Systems, EA Chicago (NuFX), and Pandemic Studios.[5][6][7][8] Gaming blogger Brian Crecente has said that fears that EA doesn't care about the quality of their products after they are acquired are debatable.[9]
As of July 2011, Electronic Arts' largest acquisition is the purchase of VG Holding Corp., the then-owner of video game developers Bioware and Pandemic Studios, for $775 million. Of the 37 companies acquired by EA, 19 are based in the U.S., five in the United Kingdom, five in Continental Europe, and eight elsewhere. Some of these companies or their respective studios, however, are now defunct. Of the six companies which EA purchased a stake in, two remaining companies are based in the U.S., while three other U.S. companies are defunct. After acquiring a 19.9% stake in France-based Ubisoft in 2004, EA sold a remaining 14.8% stake in it in 2010.[10][11]
Each acquisition listed is for the entire company, unless otherwise noted. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Electronic Arts (EA) and the subject of the acquisition. Unless otherwise noted, the value of each acquisition is listed in U.S. dollars, because EA is headquartered in the U.S. If the value of the acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed. If the EA service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed.
යතුර
[සංස්කරණය]† | Defunct |
* | Electronic Arts sold stake |
අත්කර ගැනීම
[සංස්කරණය]ව්යවසායික හිමිකම්
[සංස්කරණය]දිනය | ආයතනය | ව්යාපාරය | රට | අගය | References |
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ජනවාරි 25, 1995 | Visual Concepts Entertainment[note 3] | Video game developer | USA | — | [55] |
මැයි 9, 1995 | NovaLogic[note 4] | Video game developer and publisher | USA | — | [56] |
මාර්තු 11, 1997 | Accolade†[note 5] | Video game developer and publisher | USA | — | [57][58] |
අප්රේල් 3, 1997 | Mpath Interactive†[note 6] | Computer game and online company | USA | — | [59][60] |
අගෝස්තු 4, 1998 | Kodiak Interactive Software Studios, Inc.†[note 7] | Video game developer | USA | — | [61][62] |
දෙසැම්බර් 24, 2004 | Ubisoft Entertainment*[note 8] | Video game developer and publisher | FRA | 68.9 million euros | [10][11][63] |
සටහන
[සංස්කරණය]- ^ Staff who choose to remain were absorbed into EA Los Angeles.
- ^ Includes $650 million in cash and the issuing of $100 million in EA common stock to certain shareholders of PopCap Games. Does not include additional cash possibly received based on earnings before interest and taxes milestones through December 2013.
- ^ EA purchased a minority stake.
- ^ EA purchased a minority stake.
- ^ EA purchased a minority stake. Later purchased by Infogrames.
- ^ EA purchased a minority stake. On June 18, 2001, it was acquired by GameSpy and MPlayer.com was merged with GameSpy Arcade.
- ^ EA purchased a minority stake, but it later merged with Acclaim Entertainment.
- ^ EA initially purchased a 19.9% stake then-valued at 68.9 million euros, but then sold its remaining 14.8% stake in July 2010 for 122 million U.S. dollars (94 million euros).
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