Codemasters: Take-Two withdraws offer - way for EA takeover now free

Publisher Take-Two will not present a new offer to take over Codemasters and is officially withdrawing from negotiations. In November last year, the company put $ 980 million on the table for the takeover. A month later, Take-Two was outbid by publisher EA. Here you want to pay 1.2 billion for Codemasters. The deal was accepted shortly thereafter and initially threw Take-Two out of the running. With the exit from the negotiations nothing stands in the way of a takeover of Codemasters by EA.

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After the takeover, Codemasters and Criterion would work under one roof. Criterion has been part of EA since 2004 and was responsible for racing games such as Need for Speed ​​and Burnout. How much Publisher EA will interfere in the development of projects at Codemasters in the future, we will probably only find out in the future. This week it was also announced that EA is likely to lose its exclusive license for Star Wars. The Lucasfilm Games and Ubisoft teams have announced a new open world project.

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