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EA buys Firemint, makers of Flight Control and Real Racing

Here's yet another big iOS developer picked up by a traditional gaming giant: EA has acquired Firemint, the maker of iOS hits Flight Control and the Real Racing series. This is a pretty big purchase, but not a big surprise; Firemint has done work for EA in the past, including a few ports of popular EA titles, and as it has just merged with Infinite Interactive and has a big new title on the way called Agent Squeek, Firemint seemed primed for a connection with a larger company.

The last time I talked with Firemint's Rob Murry and Steve Fawkner back at GDC this year, they obviously didn't mention any plans to join up with EA, but they did hint to me that Firemint's future included more traditional console titles -- either versions of their current games for systems like Xbox and PlayStation, or new games entirely. Those plans may be put on hold, however -- EA's press release connects the Firemint acquisition with another purchase of a company called Mobile Post Production, which specializes in porting games across smartphone devices, and says it will use MPP's technical abilities and Firemint's creative skills to kick out high quality mobile games.



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whskytng0fxtrt

I guess you can kiss Real Racing goodbye - it was an amazing game, with visuals that blew away everything on the PSP when using a first gen iOS device. Also, I'm willing to bet that future versions of Flight Control are going to not be as much fun... stupid tie-ins...

May 06 2011 at 3:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alexander

If flight control gets ruined by EA...

May 03 2011 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
professorapple.com

I don't know if this is going to be a good or a bad thing in the long run.

May 03 2011 at 4:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Cy Starkman

Generally it is a bad thing, what is the incentive anymore for the firemint team.

To me it shows either a) thinking a pimp will give em more or b) they were only doing it to sell out

May 03 2011 at 5:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
glad

I hope they can keep the firemint team together as they do really good work unlike EA who are a bit hit and miss their fifa is unplayable!!!

May 03 2011 at 2:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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