Video gamer Electronic Arts to be bought in largest-ever private equity buyout valued at $55 billion
apnews.com
Electronic Arts, the video game maker, is being acquired and taken private for about $52.5 billion in what could become the largest-ever buyout funded by private-equity firms.

The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.

I posted this to /c/news where it was promptly removed of course

For good reasons of course

    • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I shouldn’t call it abandonware. First thing I found was Plants vs Zombies came up under EA in one of my kids libraries - sort of thing that runs well on his under powered school laptop. Think I mixed it up with Bad Piggies and all those old Rovio mobile games that basically got abandoned as publishers moved to adware and pay to win crap.

      When I think of EA titles I think of Sims and sports and battlefield - which we don’t really play. I found It Takes Two and a few really old titles like Mirrors’s Edge that nobody plays and I don’t think are installed anywhere. Wasn’t sure about their relationship with Crytek. Not going to go too crazy removing stuff but its a good reminder to have a think about game sandboxing.