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The Wall Street Journal
William “Bing” Gordon, a videogame industry veteran and the longest-serving employee of Electronic Arts Inc., is leaving the company to become a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital firm behind Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and others.
For the past decade, Mr. Gordon, 58 years old, has been chief creative [...]

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Morphing Video Games into Movies - BusinessWeek
Electronic Arts plans to make its games the basis for TV shows, books, Web sites—and the big screen

Standing behind a two-way mirror, Glen Schofield anxiously peers out at a handful of gamers. The outcome of an ambitious effort to remake video game giant Electronic Arts (ERTS) could come down [...]

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EA offers US$2 billion for Grand Theft Auto publisher - Digital Arts
Take-Two Interactive Software, publishers of the popular Grand Theft Auto series of games, has received and rejected a US$2 billion acquisition bid from Electronic Arts but left the door open to a possible acquisition later.
The EA bid, which wasn’t made public until shortly before [...]

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Electronic Arts Takeover Is Almost Inevitable… But by Whom? - Seeking Alpha
The video games business is currently going through an unprecedented phase of consolidation. This phase is characterised by big global media companies investing very heavily to rapidly increase their presence, mainly by the aquisition of independent specialist game companies. They are doing this as [...]

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