Electronic Arts and Jamdat, part 2
"Now that last post about the silliness of Electronic Arts buying Jamdat told one side of the story. There's another. Jamdat recently paid $137 million for the rights to Tetris, perhaps the greatest game of all time, when it struck a deal with Blue Lava Games. I spoke with Henk Rogers, the founder of Blue Lava, in a call this afternoon. Henk, 51, is the old timer of the games industry who found Tetris at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1988 and snapped up the rights to it. He cut deals to bring the game to Nintendo and other platforms, and the rest is history."