Having just scraped some of the egg off their face with the $2 billion offer for Take-Two rejected, EA might just be holding Ubisoft as a backup date for merger. While there’s been no official word or tremors within the corporate halls, EA does already own a sizeable 19.9% stake in the French publisher making such a move tempting indeed.
What with the recent successes for Ubisoft, like Assassin’s Creed, it would be a hard one to secure and may make the courting of Take-Two look like a playground crush. The domain eaubisoft.com has been registered but through a proxy company. There’s conspiracy afoot!
Looking up the WhoIs data on the domain eatake2.com and eaubisoft.com, it reveals that both were registered on the same day, but this could be Electronic Arts simply taking steps to avoid someone sitting on the domain, or sheer conspiratorial coincidence.
Has or are EA undergoing private negotiations with Ubisoft to increase their stake? Regardless, this speculation alone is probably enough to give main rival Activison Blizzard cause for concern.
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