EA's Take-Two offer to expire tonight

Listen, we don't care how this ends anymore. We don't care if EA buys Take-Two and forces them to manufacture toilet paper before shooting them into space. We worried about the potential harm to the industry like a hundred years ago, but now, we just want it to be over, so we never, ever have to write about it ever again. We got into this business to talk about potato chips that sort of look like Dr. Robotnik's head, stuff like that. This financial news makes our brains hurt.

Keeping that in mind, here's how we understand the latest missive from EA, with some help from the Silicon Alley Insider. The company says that it's actually going to let its most recent offer to purchase company shares at $25.74 a piece expire tonight at midnight, largely because it couldn't integrate Take-Two before the holiday season. But, Take-Two is offering to come and give EA a presentation that shows just how valuable it really is, if only EA can keep its trap shut about it.

So, that's the skinny. It sounds like it's sort of over and it's sort of not. Now, if someone could please fetch a napkin to catch the blood and brain goo seeping from our ear canal, we'd be forever in their debt.