EA buys Jamdat for a $$$Gazillian Semollians

9 12 2005

                             Images Pacman Jamdat

Aggregation of the aggregators has started.

Jamdat today announced it has been acquired by Electronic Arts, itself a player in the mobile space, but one that never seemed to get a mobile business model in high gear. After today, not only is EA in high gear, but it owns most of the significant turf it was unable to exploit on its own.

The merger agreement calls for EA to pay $27 cash per share and also assume outstanding stock options for a total of about $680 million, according to EA.

Now what consolidation lays ahead for the rest of the gaming Mafia, Mforma, In-Fusio, and Digital Bridges?

…and so it goes


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