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Electronic Arts Acquires KlickNation

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Electronic Arts  has acquired KlickNation, a developer of free-to-play social role-playing games (RPGs). KlickNation is now BioWare Sacramento, part of EA’s BioWare label. The team joins BioWare’s existing social gaming team at BioWare San Francisco to form a new business unit, BioWare Social, focused on the development of RPG experiences for social networks and led by former KlickNation CEO Mark Otero.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

[Original upload date: 01-24-12]

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