EA’s Proposal To Acquire Take-Two Interactive Software

EA wants to buy Take-Two Interactive, who publish the Grand Theft Auto games. Bioshock, Civilization, a bunch of sports games, and is set to publish Duke Nukem Forever (who am I kidding? This is never coming out). This seems like a reaction to Activision’s purchase of Vivendi/Blizzard and would give EA a nice stable of games to counter ActBlizz’s World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero games. This also follows EA’s purchases of Bioware and Pandemic, two studios that are responsible for some of my favorite games.

(I’m mostly posting this uninteresting piece of brain-drool to try out the ScribeFire plug-in for Firefox. Seems pretty neat.)