RUMOR: EA Acquires Facebook Game Maker Playfish for $250 Million

Courtesy Mashable!  Wed, 10/14/2009 - 14:48

playfishThis is in the rumor stages right now: video game mega-corporation Electronic Arts may have already bought social gaming company Playfish a few weeks ago in what inside sources claim was around a $250 million deal .

Whether or not the rumor has legs, with expected revenue of $75 million this year Playfish shows how advertising combined with virtual goods sales can mean lucrative real world money to social game developers on Facebook and...


 

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