Electronic Arts wants to PopCap take

Gamesontwikkelaar PopCap, known for online games, is about to be acquired, for an amount of more than a billion dollars. The buyer would Electronic Arts, that last year of Angry Birds publisher Chillingo bought.

According to TechCrunch, is PopCap soon taken over; the interested buyer would, according to ‘several sources’ Electronic Arts. The publisher would be willing to more than a billion dollars for the developer down to count. PopCap achieved last year a turnover of 100 million dollars.

PopCap is well known of games like Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, but of the developer are games for the Xbox 360, PS3 and iOS has been released.

Even for the giant Electronic Arts would have a price of more than a billion dollars is a large sum of money; EA has a market value of 7.5 billion dollars. Last year, Electronic Arts all of Angry Birds publisher Chillingo, for an undisclosed amount.