Midway Games Buys Videogame Company
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Midway Games Inc. said Tuesday that it acquired Paradox Development, the studio now developing Midway&#39;s upcoming Mortal Kombat:Shaolin Monks videogame, for 333,334 Midway common shares.
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Viacom Inc. on Monday extended its Nickelodeon licensing deal with video game publisher THQ Inc. through 2010 and said it is in talks with publisher Midway Games Inc. to develop Viacom properties into games.
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Wireless Internet company Tom Online Inc. on Friday said it signed a definitive agreement to buy a majority stake in Indiagames Ltd.
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The board of the world's largest casino operator, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. , has accepted a $17.1 billion buyout bid from private equity groups Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group .
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Media conglomerate Viacom Inc.  VIAb.N is considering expanding into the video game business  and could acquire publisher Midway Games Inc. MWY.N,  according to a regulatory filing on Friday by Viacom chief  Sumner Redstone, who owns a controlling stake in Midway.
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LOS ANGELES/TOKYO  - A group headed by Sony Corp.  of America has agreed to buy Hollywood film studio  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about $2.85 billion in cash to mine  MGM's lucrative library for the booming DVD market.
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US GROUP Electronic Arts, the world&#39;s largest video game maker, has acquired 19.9 per cent of French rival Ubi Soft Entertainment from Talpa Beheer for an undisclosed sum.
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The Associated Press is reporting that film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. has agreed to let itself be bought out by a consortium headed by Sony.
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French video games group Ubisoft   said it had sold its 18.89 percent stake in Gameloft  , Europe's biggest provider of games for cell phones,  to French bank Calyon  for 81.3 million euros ($112.2  million).
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Sony Communication Network Corp. 3789.T   said on Friday it would buy a 27 percent stake in Gamepot Inc.   3792.SP, an operator of a popular online golf game, for 2.6   billion yen ($22 million), as Sony Corp.'s 6758.T Internet   unit strives to beef up its online game operations.
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Shares in Argosy Gaming Corp. -- owner of the Empress Casino in Joliet -- rocketed skyward Thursday after the company said it would be bought by Penn National Gaming for $1.
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The online game operator Giant Interactive Group said that it would buy back up to $200 million worth of American depositary shares. The company plans to fund the repurchases from available working capital, it said in a statement.
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By Bloomberg News. Electronic Arts, a maker of video games, said yesterday that it bought 19.9 percent of a French competitor, Ubisoft Entertainment, the maker of games based on Tom Clancy novels.
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Sony Corp. and a group of investors said they&#39;ve agreed in principle to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the movie studio controlled by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, for $12 a share, or about $2.
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- Station Casinos Inc.  said it agreed to be acquired by privately held Fertitta Colony Partners LLC for $90 per share, or $5.4 billion in cash.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Penn National Gaming Inc. is acquiring Argosy Gaming Co. for $1.4 billion cash in an effort to turn itself into the nation&#39;s third-largest operator of gambling properties.
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A group led by Sony of America reached a tentative agreement to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about $4.8 billion in cash, snatching it from Time Warner at the 11th hour.