Tag Archives: Electronic Arts

Thoughts on EA’s Bid to Acquire Take Two

By Jens | Published: February 26, 2008
So EA made a 2 billion move to acquire Take-Two. I’m not quite sure what to make out of this so here some thoughts about the parties concerned: EA: As the always-present Wedbush-Morgan analyst Michael Pachter points out Take Two Interactive’s 2K Sports unit alone makes acquiring the company a winning deal for EA. Talking to GamesIndustry.biz, [...]
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Simulating Green: How British Petroleum Is Using Video Games To Solve Global Warming

By Jens | Published: November 20, 2007
Gonzalo Frasca has been preaching it for ages, and I’ve been repeating it for ages: Due to their simulational and interactive nature videogames are perfectly suited to explain the underlying mechanisms of complex systems. Simulations can express messages in ways that narrative simply cannot, they’re capable of modelling not simply representing a related experience as [...]
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