Entries tagged "Ubisoft"
In this week's edition of The Deal Calendar, Corporate Dealmaker's senior editor Suzanne Stevens speaks with Matt Wurtzel, online news director for TheDeal.com, about potential deals in the video gaming sector. There are some dealmaking dates coming up in the Activision Inc.-Vivendi Games Inc. deal and the Electronic Arts Inc.-Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. bid, and a potential bid by Ubisoft Entertainment SA for THQ Inc. could be on the table. ...
Earlier, Dealscape filed a summation of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.'s SEC filing divulging the possibility of competing bids, but there was nary a name identifying who might try to challenge Electronic Arts Inc.'s $2 billion bid. Dealscape trolled through video game sites and blogs to handicap the possible bidders....
An analyst put forth the possibility of French video game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment riding in to save Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. from Electronic Arts Inc.'s hostile bid. The truth is, such a scenario is as far-fetched as the plot lines of their video games....
