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The folks at Kabam knew they had been capable of making money with their own games, but they may not know how other games work there.
The Internet is awash with rumours that Playfish has been acquired by Electronic Arts for $250 million. That’s a steal for EA if it’s true. When a company that is less than two years old is rumoured to have been sold for a quarter of a billion dollars , you have to sit up and take notice.
Facebook launched browser-based gaming to the forefront. Now game developers are taking advantage of browser game popularity to appeal to the MMORPG crowd. Facebook's wildly popular gaming Apps, such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and Bejeweled Blitz, successfully implanted casual browser gaming into the general population's consciousness.
$182 million . $300 million . $563.2 million . These are the kind of numbers that are getting thrown around casually in social gaming acquisitions these days, and they could go even higher, especially if industry-leader Zynga decides to sell out . But are these companies really worth as much as their buyers think they are?