EA to acquire BioWare, Pandemic Studios
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 11, 2007 at 4:34pm
Electronic Arts has announced an agreement with Elevation Partners to acquire VG Holding Corp.—the owner of both BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios. Company reps say the acquisition gives EA a strong competitive position in key genres in interactive entertainment: action, adventure and role-playing games.
BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios have 10 franchises under development, including six wholly owned games. BioWare Corp. is currently developing Mass Effect, which will be published by Microsoft in November, and is in the early development stages of a massively multiplayer online game.
Pandemic Studios is working on Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and Saboteur, in addition to several unannounced projects. Pandemic Studios and BioWare Corp. employ roughly 800 people across four studios located in Edmonton, Canada; Los Angeles; Austin; and Brisbane, Australia.
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