Entertainment
(Online article) – Microsoft its Xbox 360 game console wants to strengthen again with an acquisition. Redmond – BigPark, a Canadian developer of video and online games, will work in the future under the umbrella of Microsoft game studios, the company announced on Thursday in Redmond. The 2007 founded start-up should continue to work on an exclusive game titles for the Xbox 360, it said. Click Oracle for additional related pages. Financial details of the proposed acquisition were not mentioned. Don Mattrick, who currently heads the videogame business at the world’s largest software company is one of the founders of BigPark, next to the head of the company, Hanno Lemke. Mattrick is currently still shares the game forge, was not however with the acquisition charge, it says. Both experts have experience before the world’s largest game publisher electronic arts.
The developers of BigPark were among others in the popular top titles like need for speed or FIFA Soccer involved and describe themselves as specialists in interactive online Entertainment. Of a game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 Microsoft should expect a lot. The late of 1990s had ever gained exclusive rights the software giant with the acquisition of the Studio and thus reaped great success. The game “Halo” had been developed by the Bungie then Studios. Microsoft won customers for its Xbox then successfully with the timely purchase of the Studio. (AP)
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