Take Two bids almost a $billion to buy Codemasters

[HEXUS]

This is a good opportunity for cash rich Take Two to acquire a racing thoroughbred.

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[Yoyoyo69]

I foresee a lot of the big companies trying to buy up smaller developers the next couple of years, even more so now as some are struggling.

All the big fish are posturing for dominance in the Cloud gaming space, this at the very least makes Take Two a less likely target for a takeover, not that I thought they were seriously at risk anyway.

[KultiVator]

Pretty sure that Codemasters rose out of what was once Mastertronic - a pioneering British software publisher, with a pedigree stretching back to the early days of home computer games (KickStart on the C64 was one of their true classics back in the day).

Whilst sad to see that swallowed up by another huge conglomeration - let's hope Codemasters live on for another 4 decades and keep some innovative gaming development going here in their old stomping ground.

[JaymondoGB]

Hope this doesn't happen. I feel they will loose something under foreign ownership.

[aniilv]

i doubt codemasters were in financial difficulty, not with the f1 licence

thing is, f1 licence alone is worth that 1 billion and 2k now got the rest(wrc for instance) for free

cant wait to see lootboxes in f1...not

[ik9000]

I didn't realise codemasters still existed. Bring back Dizzy!!

[Molt]

Pretty sure that Codemasters rose out of what was once Mastertronic - a pioneering British software publisher, with a pedigree stretching back to the early days of home computer games (KickStart on the C64 was one of their true classics back in the day).

Nope, same era but different companies- Mastertronic was started in 1983, Codemasters in 1986 by Richard and David Darling. Both did a lot C64 £1.99/£2.99 games though so it's easy to get the two mixed up, although I never found Codemaster's BMX Simulator to be as good as KickStart.

Dizzy was really good though.

[JamesP91]

Not quite as big a deal as the $7.5bn Microsoft paid to acquire Zenimax/Bethesda but still a large amount of money. Like others, I didn't even realise that Codemasters was still going! Seems to be mostly F1 and Dirt racing games they produce, neither of which I've played for years.

[ritiklahori270]

OMG this is huge....!

[atemporal]

OMG this is huge....!

You sure?

[bowepa]

If that happens, company won't be ever the same, unfortunately...