Who will be PopCap Games’ Buyer?

Plants vs. Zombies’ producer, PopCap Games, is now slated to be acquired for a price of $1 Billion+ by an undisclosed buyer.

The first possible buyer is Zynga, which is known for making game-related acquisitions last year. However, some sources said they’ve backed out since PopCap Games is demanding a price that is too high. PopCap is earning $100-150 million, offering themselves to be bought for over $1 billion. By hearing Zynga out, Electronic Arts enters the scene. But PopCap acquisition was still too large for a type of company that has a market capital of $7.49 billion. Actually, this was not EA’s first big bet, since they had bought Playfish last 2009 for $400 million.

Sources also stated that there are two more candidates on the line. The first one is an Asian company that is looking forward to taking a good standing in the gaming market. And Tencent, a Chinese company that has a very huge market capital and some labeled games as well.

Earning over $22.5 million in 2009, PopCap Games seems to be one of the richest videogame productions in the industry. As of now, there are still no new updates regarding who will be PopCap Games’ buyer.

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Upcoming Games for Wii U, Announced!

After Nintendo announced the Wii U at E3 2011 last Monday, its partners have rushed to unveil the first batch of games to be available for the Wii successor. Ubisoft and Electronic Arts announced games for the Wii U, but no titles were revealed yet. However, Battlefield and Army of Two were rumored for the latter.

Check out the list of games coming to Wii U after the break.

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2011 E3 Expo Day One Round Up

A day has passed for the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 for short, and people were already floored with new product releases. Companies like Microsoft, Sony and many others grabbed the opportunity to debut their latest hardwares and game titles.

E3 is presented by Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and will run from June 7-9, 2011 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The website DigitalSpy wrote a concise list of the happenings in Day One of the E3 event:

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EA Games Unleashed for Windows Phone 7

EA is a titan when it comes to video games. And now they make a bigger step towards game supremecy with a support on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. The big plus? Let’s say an Xbox Live-enabled game starting 2010.

The first few titles of EA Mobile are The Sims 3, Tetris, Monopoly and Need for Speed Undercover.

All of these are franchises on existing mobile phones so it is not exclusive to Windows phone 7. But the Xbox Live online gaming network stays as an advantage. Even if Apple quite made it at Game Center, still WP7 is more tasty to game developers and gamers themselves. All EA games will support the Xbox Achievements. This includes badges and goals awarded for a job well done. These will add to your game score shared in between Windows Phone 7, Games for Windows and Xbox 360 games.

But surely WP7 should atleast have a third party apps in order to level with Android and iPhone.

Are you excited for the Windows Phone 7?

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