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  • EA acquires Firemint for an undisclosed amount
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    EA acquires Firemint for an undisclosed amount

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    Big name traditional publishers have been pretty skittish about jumping into the new forms of gaming over the past few years, but not Electronic Arts. But rather than try and beat the best in these new arenas, they simply buy the best. It happened in 2009 with their acquisition of Playfish. It happened in 2010 with their acquisition of Chillingo. And now in 2011? It's the popular Australian development house Firemint.
  • Interview: EA2D discusses bringing Dragon Age to Facebook with Dragon Age Legends
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    Interview: EA2D discusses bringing Dragon Age to Facebook with Dragon Age Legends

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    With Dragon Age Legends, the team at EA2D had a somewhat unenviable task: taking an incredibly popular, very violent console role playing series and translating it to Facebook. Thankfully they succeeded, and Dragon Age Legends turned out to be one of the best RPGs on the platform to date. Gamezebo had the chance to speak with producer Ethan Levy about the development of Legends and why it's been described as the first "real" game on Facebook.
  • With Tencent’s purchase of Riot Games, a sleeping dragon awakens
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    With Tencent’s purchase of Riot Games, a sleeping dragon awakens

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    OK, so it's not "casual" games news, but what does that mean that team "casual" mean days anyway? In big news that could have a huge impact on the entire games industry, Tencent has acquired Riot Games for $400 million. Riot Games is the creator of the popular browser-based, online fantasy fighting game League of Legends, boasting more than 1 million active players and logging more than 500 million minutes of game play a month. The company was formed in 2008 to create "session-based" online games. So what's the big deal, you ask? One word: Tencent. Tencent isn't just the largest Internet company in China. It's the third largest publicly-held company in the world.