EA buys Criterion

[Prince]

Link (http://investor.news.com/Engine?Account=cnet&PageName=NEWSREAD&ID=1216118&Ticker=ERTS&SOURCE=20040728005326)

Jeeze. Not only do they have rights to Burnout and Black, now they're going to make an assload of money off of licensing Renderware (especially in next-gen).

This was a great acquisition for EA though. Burnout 3 is looking mighty fine and Black is supposed to revolutionize FPS'. RenderWare should bring them in tons of money from licensees (1 of every 4 games use RenderWare) and it will also give EA a headstart for next-gen development.


Who's EA going to buy next? Crytek? Free Radical?

[Michael]

I'm beting free radical...but this is big news...they may even swallow up Silicon knights..if that happens, i won't care the system, as long as it has Ea support.

[Michael Bluth]

They've got Renderware now? FUCK. Oh wait a second, there's always XNA.

[Michael]

^I need to see more of XNA...it looks really good, but so far I think the new unreal engine has more potential...Microsoft needs to show a new advance pic or something...anything really...

[Dwhitten]

EA just has too much money...